I'm watching a TV movie with others. I feel like I have to make fun of it, because William Shatner's in it and he's such a ham. Or was, in the old Star Trek series. Actually, here, I have to admit he's reasonable. It's not a Star Trek show, though there are fantasy elements. Magic realism, I'd say, Isabel Allende style.

The main character looks like a nature spirit--a bit ethereal and shapeshifty. No wonder: she's a DREAM! A dream who's young and inexperienced about the mortal world; it's her coming-of-age story.

Only... William Shatner is her guide to reality! Such a lucky girl.

The whole story parodies Jung, reverses his perspective. The dream finds all of US confusing, bizarre and numinous. She has a mortal animus, who's very unlike her, to guide her through the counter-intuitive realms of materiality, logic, and business. She struggles to individuate, to find sides of her more like us, so she can handle our bizarre, senseless world... but it's not gonna happen overday.

I mean, Rome wasn't built in a night.

NOTE IN THE MORNING

Email this dream to Jung. Oh, wait, he's dead.

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