A repeat dream I’ve had for years, but which I never wrote down until this morning, is simple:
I receive a Christmas/holiday greeting card from a couple of old friends. The nature of their relationship is unclear, but the card bears a picture of both of them. In the picture they are standing and waving from an open space, maybe their front yard.
The words “BI-PILLAR TOWERS OF CONNECT!” appear over their heads, in large print.
While I am dreaming I know what the phrase means, but when I awake I do not know what it means. This couple, however, proudly trumpets their relationship as two people who are “Bi-Pillar Towers of Connect!”
I am not aware that the phrase has any explicit meaning. A quick web search find nothing, but what else is new.
Without trying to analyze too hard I do assume I meant to dream something about bi-polar disorder, with the subjects of the dream proudly reminding their friends that they are bi-polar, functional, and happy together.
A stream-of-consciousness association with the Twin Towers comes to mind, along with the Towers of Light which we saw a few weeks ago.
I am not aware that any sharp-witted wags referred to the World Trade Center as “bi-pillar” but if I am the first to describe the Twin Towers as pillars and the Trade Center site as bi-pillar, well then hooray for me.
Maybe it is a coded message from the ghosts of the Twin Towers…. Nah.
Maybe it is a reference to the fact that I was diagnosed as bipolar a couple of years ago, but that I fail to care because bipolarity seems to be the diagnosis du jour among today’s therapists. Instead of using the real term maybe I couch it in silliness, and look forward to another 10 years between attempts at finding insight through therapy.
Something else I just realized as I walked from one side of this apartment to the other: The word “connect” (and, indirectly, the exclamation point that follows) might come from The One Connect. The One Connect is one of several pieces of religious-type screed/propaganda stuck to telephone poles and other places near Hamner Tower in Tampa. Another one (which has the exclamation point I remember being common to these posters) is called Let Us Get Some Weight!
