Political dreams
Apr. 28th, 2006 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katsarisTwo somewhat cute/interesting dreams, one last night, and the other a few days previously, both mildly political relevant.
Dream #1: Diplomatic envoy
The dream yesterday, a rather amusing one in retrospect: I had been sent as a diplomat to ensure that India and Pakistan don't get in a nuclear conflict. At some point in the dream it seems that Pakistan is close to fulfilling its ambitions for nuclear weaponry, that the two countries are at the brink of war.
So I solve the crisis by physically grabbing the President of Pakistan and then climbing on the ledge of a window and threatening to jump out (while still holding him) if his country doesn't behave. His advisors/ministers go all "eek!", they agree, and the next scene is when I'm in a large office, seeing both India and Pakistan deleting all their nuclear weapons scientific info/progress from their computers. Crisis averted. *g*
Dream #2: Iraqi conscript dream
The previous dream, the one of a few days ago, was in reality not an amusing one; neither at the time, nor in retrospect. I dreamed being a conscript in Saddam Hussein's army, pre-invasion of Iraq (or perhaps it was in the early stages of the Iraq invasion), as Saddam was coming to inspect the unit. Everyone was scared stiff, knowing they could be killed for displeasing him in any way at all. But when he came he was personable, joking, friendly with the soldiers, in a good mood. He still had the power to murder you, but simply chose not to.
And the feeling in the dream at that point was, I think, that you couldn't help but like him for so choosing not to murder you.
Ugh.
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I know where in my mind both of the dreams came from. The one about India and Pakistan -- the previous night I had found the opportunity to fill in some tidbits of info on Wikipedia about the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, one of them being that Russia supports Pakistan's membership only if India joins at the same time. This thought, combined with the recent Iran nukes thingy, led to the dream.
And the other dream -- that's more solemn and creepy, and it was the Nepal situation that brought it forward, not anything happening in Iraq itself. I kept wondering what could lead an army to be loyal to a dictator even against their own people's wishes. Not just in Nepal, but also in Belarus recently, and ofcourse all over the world in different times.
My dream seems to have answered this with the guess of loyalty/admiration/liking at the mere fact of *not being hurt at the time*. I'm not sure how relevant it actually is in real life, but the more I think about it the creepier (and sadder) I find it. Battered wife syndrome on a whole national scale. Ugh.
Dream #1: Diplomatic envoy
The dream yesterday, a rather amusing one in retrospect: I had been sent as a diplomat to ensure that India and Pakistan don't get in a nuclear conflict. At some point in the dream it seems that Pakistan is close to fulfilling its ambitions for nuclear weaponry, that the two countries are at the brink of war.
So I solve the crisis by physically grabbing the President of Pakistan and then climbing on the ledge of a window and threatening to jump out (while still holding him) if his country doesn't behave. His advisors/ministers go all "eek!", they agree, and the next scene is when I'm in a large office, seeing both India and Pakistan deleting all their nuclear weapons scientific info/progress from their computers. Crisis averted. *g*
Dream #2: Iraqi conscript dream
The previous dream, the one of a few days ago, was in reality not an amusing one; neither at the time, nor in retrospect. I dreamed being a conscript in Saddam Hussein's army, pre-invasion of Iraq (or perhaps it was in the early stages of the Iraq invasion), as Saddam was coming to inspect the unit. Everyone was scared stiff, knowing they could be killed for displeasing him in any way at all. But when he came he was personable, joking, friendly with the soldiers, in a good mood. He still had the power to murder you, but simply chose not to.
And the feeling in the dream at that point was, I think, that you couldn't help but like him for so choosing not to murder you.
Ugh.
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I know where in my mind both of the dreams came from. The one about India and Pakistan -- the previous night I had found the opportunity to fill in some tidbits of info on Wikipedia about the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, one of them being that Russia supports Pakistan's membership only if India joins at the same time. This thought, combined with the recent Iran nukes thingy, led to the dream.
And the other dream -- that's more solemn and creepy, and it was the Nepal situation that brought it forward, not anything happening in Iraq itself. I kept wondering what could lead an army to be loyal to a dictator even against their own people's wishes. Not just in Nepal, but also in Belarus recently, and ofcourse all over the world in different times.
My dream seems to have answered this with the guess of loyalty/admiration/liking at the mere fact of *not being hurt at the time*. I'm not sure how relevant it actually is in real life, but the more I think about it the creepier (and sadder) I find it. Battered wife syndrome on a whole national scale. Ugh.