06 April 2005
I had a dream...
...that for homework, they gave us each a big plastic box divided up into about 5 compartments. On top was a heavy wooden lid. Each compartment had different critters living there. On day one we were expected to make friends with the critters and play with them by picking them up. There was a snake in one compartment and mice in the other. I started with the mice and noticed that the 5th mouse was already dead - the runt of the litter. The other mouse I picked up was gnawing gently on my hand as if hungry. I knew the runt had died of starvation. I wondered if there was any point feeding them when they would only be fed to the snake on day two! And as for the hungry snake, what would I want to be picking that up for? Snakey could obviously smell the mice and be all fired up for the kill. I don't want to play with Snakey!
What does all this mean? Can I relate it to the emailing list/ web community/ forum participation excercises? Considering my guilt lately at having told other students on assessment forums that they've got it all wrong, I believe that this dream reflects this situation. Here the critters are the homework tasks, i.e. "Make friends with your email community." The final analysis, which in my case was harsh, is the snake devouring friends recently made!
Geeez I gotta lighten up.
What does all this mean? Can I relate it to the emailing list/ web community/ forum participation excercises? Considering my guilt lately at having told other students on assessment forums that they've got it all wrong, I believe that this dream reflects this situation. Here the critters are the homework tasks, i.e. "Make friends with your email community." The final analysis, which in my case was harsh, is the snake devouring friends recently made!
Geeez I gotta lighten up.
