\t\t\t\tA repeat dream I’ve had for years, but which I never wrote down until this morning, is simple:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The words “BI-PILLAR TOWERS OF CONNECT!” appear over their heads, in large print.<\/p>\n
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!”<\/p>\n
I am not aware that the phrase has any explicit meaning. A quick web search find nothing, but what else is new.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Maybe it is a coded message from the ghosts of the Twin Towers…. Nah.<\/p>\n
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<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n
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<\/b><\/a>. The One Connect<\/b><\/i> is one of several pieces of religious-type screed\/propaganda stuck to telephone poles and other places near Hamner Tower in Tampa<\/b><\/a>. Another one (which has the exclamation point I remember being common to these posters) is called Let Us Get Some Weight<\/b><\/a>!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[98,102,258,557,572],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreamland","tag-bi-pillar","tag-bipolar","tag-hamner-tower","tag-towers-of-light","tag-twin-towers","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-10","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}