Monday, March 7, 2016

Dream Job aka... The job I had in my dream

It seems I keep writing about my dreams, but since I am doing my writing in the early morning, that’s what’s on my mind. I’m also trying harder to remember my dreams as I would like to have a lucid one. I kept a journal in college for a short period of time in an effort to do this. I began remembering everything, up to several dreams a night. I still remember some of them as if they were real memories. I eventually had to stop to get some actual rest as it started to get out of hand, but I am interested in going back to that place. I have always been interested in Surrealism and the use of dreams and dream images for use in art. I would like to get back to making more art, thus….. dreams.

My dream last night wasn’t a long one. I can tell you where some of the images come from and why they are there, but what’s most interesting to me is the feeling I had during and after the dream.

In the dream, the earliest part of it I can remember, I had just gotten a job. It was at an advertising agency. I was in our first meeting and I think I had been hired a few minutes before that. I remember thinking I hadn’t even quit my other part time job yet or something to that effect. I think I was approaching this job from a part-time point of view, but the boss-man thought I was full time. That will come into play later.

The meeting was is a relatively small room. There were about 12 people in there in black office swivel chairs around a cheap wooden office table. The chairs weren’t those big comfortable ones. They are the low-backed ones with cloth covers, not leather or even fake leather. But they were comfortable, like they were brand new. It was a little cramped in there… very little room between the wall and chairs. Everyone was wearing very dark business clothing. It seemed even darker in the bright white walls and fluorescent lights. Everyone was in pairs or small groups they would work together on accounts in. The woman I was with was blond with her hair pulled up and wearing a black sport coat jacket over a black blouse. Upon reflection after the dream, she looked just like the main lady lawyer from Better Call Saul.

The boss guy started going over the accounts we needed to figure out and work on. This part was exciting for me. I was excited about which account we would get and what we would do with it. I have very fleeting images in my head of some of the ideas I had and sketched out. Something to do with black silhouettes on white backgrounds and mixed up… hard to explain the image, although I believe a rubber duck silhouette was in it. The boss went over schedules and calendars and some timelines as we began to wrap up the meeting. I remember at one point we had to start over as we had completely forgotten about Christmas. I turned and asked my partner in the account what I should work on over the weekend to get ready. I was excited and was hoping she would say to list some ideas, or sketch, or something. She said not to worry about it and that she would handle it. She seemed a little miffed and upset. I thought maybe it was getting paired with me, a newbie. She left abruptly without saying anything to me.

I realized at the end of the meeting that I had to talk to the boss about my hours and that I was really just looking for part time. Then I had the thought that maybe I should quit my teaching job and just start this full time. I actually went through what that scenario would look like and entail. In my dream it gave me a very excited and happy feeling. I woke up with that.

I’ve always been interested in advertising. I originally thought about going to school for it. It’s not that I want to be manipulative of people. It’s that I really enjoy creative problem solving. It combines everything I love doing…. Art, design, visual and mental puzzles, figuring people out, etc. There was a show that used to be on after Mad Men called Ad Men. It was two ad agencies battling over a client by pitching their best ideas and campaigns to them. I loved that show. I really enjoyed watching the process. What I found most interesting about my dream was the feeling I had in it that carried over to me being awake. I was really happy and excited about the job. I was looking forward to working. I actually looked up jobs in the shower on my phone just to see. I haven’t felt that excited about a job or work in many years. I suppose I have some reflecting and thinking to do.


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