Victory Gardens
Dreams
There are a number of long sequences of dreams in Victory Gardens.
These are not just random dreams
dreamt by random people.
These are the dreams of the volunteers
for dream research at the university.
The dreams are not random because they are elicited
by the psychologists operating the machine.
It is interesting to consider the importance
of dreams to the text,
particularly the central issue -
It can readily be seen that all war is a nightmare scenario.
It is not logical or controlled. It is bloody - people die for real.
The individual players,
the combatants on the ground
have no control over events.
Emergency
| ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ˆ^^ — Doctor Urquhart, I think we're losing him! — Don't be silly man, I know exactly where to find him, he's right across the hall. — I don't like his theta at all, Boris ... — Really? But it's so pretty; look, sort of a Harris tweed. — Omygod what is THAT?! — Uh, sorry, that's my nose. — Get me 50 mg. halcion subcut. , stat! — All right, Doctor Urquhart, but what about Macarthur? — Oh pish, he doesn't need drugs! — Doctor Urquhart! SCAMD is indicating catastrophic memory failure anytime in the last ten seconds ... — Oh shit, this may be serious. — Flashing lights! Hooting klaxons! A little unhappy-face on the system monitor!! — In the name of all that's literary, Boris, stop the test NOW!!! — Aww, do we have to ... |
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Too late doctor I'm afraid we lost him.
But is this just another dream?
Many of the dreams are about controlling machines. Aircraft often figure in them. These can readily be seen as phallic symbolism. There are dreams of drowning and wrecked ships, dreams of storms and struggle, dreams symbolic of sexual acts or birth.
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