Celebrity Dreams
Posted on 20 September 2009
Have you ever had a celebrity dream? I often dream of being in conversations with favorite celebrities, and the feeling is usually one of happiness because there is an easy rapport or a special feeling that I know this person well. When I wake up I feel fascinated by the dream, and say over and over, “It felt so real!” and then a certain kind of loneliness wafts in, an estranged feeling, maybe because I have to go do the laundry or some other drab thing, and in fact, I do not have a special friendship with Bono or Johnny Depp. I likely never will! Not on this earth-plane anyway. But hey, you never know… and the thrill of these fun dreams of idealized friendship is worth feeling even the most wretched despair while folding a mountain of semi-wrinkled t-shirts.
For this entry, which came on my birthday, I chose a less exciting celebrity dream to record, but it is important. I believe I was not feeling well in my sleep and so the celebrity dream took an odd turn. This is in no way a reflection of the celebrity. It’s all mine. Okay, so I was dreaming that (and go ahead, analyze it all you want!) I was asked to help Rosie O’Donnell with a new tv show. There were a handful of us. A few of the others were big-time publishers from big-time children’s publishing groups (so I wondered if in fact this was a psychic dream telling me that Rosie is working on a picture book for children, with say, Random House?). Rosie was talkative and fun, but she had rules and even “meditation hour” when everyone was supposed to whisper back stage. She wanted us to be able to sing show tunes or fun songs at the drop of the hat. She asked me if I was willing to do that and I said, “Sure, but I’d need some voice coaching.” And then she asked me to sing Glenn Miller’s song,”Chattanooga Choo Choo” which I did. I woke up with a blasted aching headache and that “Chattanooga Choo Choo” stuck in my head all day! So I have to admit it wasn’t my favorite celebrity dream, but I do wish Rosie well, and let’s see if she comes out with a children’s book in the next year or so!
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This is fun and funny! I love your drawing of Rosie! Captures her perfectly!!! And your dream does too! I wouldn’t doubt one bit that you could have been connected to her in the dream – why not – and who knows for sure why. But it will be fun if she does write a book or does some new show and someone sings Chattanooga Choo Choo and even more funny if that someone is you!!
Well all I can say is if the dream gave me a headache, the real thing happening would give everyone else a big headache!
Oh! Yes!! I have had celebrity dreams, too, and mine were, also, so very, very real and they have stayed with me since I had them some years ago. I recall them so clearly and it’s difficult to separate the dream from reality. I would love to hear you sing Chattanooga Choo Choo!! Mom
I would have woken up with a headache if Rosie O’Donnell was in my dream too!
It looks like the Rosie part of you wants you to be ready for “show tunes” and your consious self is aware that you need “voice lessons”- sounds pretty cool.
I’d love to talk to you more about this one…!
Jules I’ll take that to mean the “rosie” part of me–not the Rosie part of me! And yes, I use my “voice” now more openly than before and am spontaneous but am aware of so much still to learn!
How do you explain the splitting headache???
I’ve had some celebrity dreams but can’t remember them at the moment. Anyways, I like your take on it Elaine! I think it means you would like more backing for your own creative entrepreneurial concepts? or maybe that you have ideas that really need to be in front of the public and the best way is celebrity endorsement. I think this is along the lines of my celebrity dreams!
SU
Suzanne, you’re brilliant! I never once thought of “celebrity endorsement” and I love that concept. I guess it’s like the ultimate acceptance. I know there are countless psychological ways to read this nutty dream, but I love the ideas generated out of it!