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Joseph Campbell, the dude who wrote The Hero with a Thousand Faces, he's a super cool fella in my books. I remember reading THWTF long ago (I managed to finish only a third of it. Songi lkb took it back from me! I'm still waiting for my copy. Bring it when you come in August) and this part right at the beginning has stayed with me. Campbell, a hardcore Freudian (Jungian too, actually), makes a lot of connections between myths and dreams and Freud's theories. He mentions this episode where some tribal people before the ritual circumcision tell the boy that "The Great Snake smells your foreskin; he is calling for it." and obviously the boy freaks out and goes to his Mum for protection. And then he mentions this other episode from one of Jung's patients. Apparently that fello had a dream where a snake shot out of a cave and chewed off his genitals. And Jung adds that this "occurred at the moment when the patient was convinced of the truth of the analysis and was beginning to free himself from the bonds of his mother-complex."

Now let me give you the context before I went to sleep. Ghana and Uruguay were tied 1-1 at the end of first extra time. I was praying Ghana would make it to the semis. I fell asleep almost instantly. I'd had a heavy dinner of vatha kozhambu and rice and curd and beetroot kootu.

And then the two part dream happened.

PART ONE - The NCC certificate.

I'm at this school NCC party. I'm 14 years old. The place resembles a temple corridor. The food is kept at various locations around the shrine (I never get to see what is in the shrine) and we are all going around with a plate in hand, it's a free for all, so there is chaos and confusion and everyone's pretty excited. But I am nervous. I'm on the lookout for Suri (Suryanarayanan, Science teacher and NCC head in school). I don't find him. So I muster up courage and enter his office room to try and flick a certificate. (I dunno why I'm doing that. It looks like I've not cleared the necessary requirements to earn it the right way) And as I am looking thru the room, the party seems to have come to an end and there are no ppl around. And Suri walks in and I get caught. He doesn't immediately punish me. He talks to me for a while, trying to figure out what I'm doing there etc. And the rest is a little hazy. But I remember feeling super guilty. And something about doing the right thing.

PART TWO - Three Vaginas.

I forget how the transition happened, but I'm in this room with two fantastic women. They are thirsting for my touch. And I'm salivating. They look young, eighteenish, and the place looks like a hostel room. And while I'm making up my mind who to get it on with, they start disrobing. I'm all nervous and excited. And with the encouragement of girl one I'm ready to enter girl two.

Enters this middle aged woman. She looks like the guardian/warden of the two girls. And they freeze on seeing her. She is looking at us strangely, trying to figure out what's going on. She starts to say something angrily, but she is also curiously fascinated by the proceedings. She comes closer, and some conversation happens and she's lying down in front of me and she raises her skirt. And there is this huge protruding thing that resembles a chewed up tree branch. It is green and brown and pink and looks something like a dried up clitoris. And I slowly pull aside the transparent piece of cloth on top of it and start licking it. And then I chew it. And I can see that the two fantastic girls have lied down on either side of this woman in the same position - legs spread apart, crotch raised for easy access. And my hands reach out.

I wake up hearing the alarm go off.

I spent the next hour in bed trying to figure out and interpret these dreams. I seldom remember my dreams but these two were vivid, almost conscious.

I thought the first one meant that I was looking for some discipline in life, some order. I figure NCC represents that. And Suri and guilt probably mean I need to face things and maybe look for a guru.

But the second part totally beats me! I mean why on earth would I be chewing on an old hag when I had these two lovely girls next to me?

An hour later I found out that Ghana had been cheated out of the world cup. Very disappointed.