[BITList] DREAMS

[John Feltham]

G'day Hugh,

On 29/07/2013, at 01:41 AM, HUGH <chakdara at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Where do dreams come from?  The subconcious?  If so, what about the one in which I jumped down some stairs in New Zealand and met my sister? Neither of us has been in NZ.  Or the interview with The General, the details of which have stuck with me for 60-odd years? The interview itself didn't take place in the dream, but I was there for it, and I still clearly recall the walk up the long corridor and the ornately panelled room with the big desk.
>  
> The latest oddity was last night.  For some reason I was looking down on a marine diesel engine bedplate in which a crankshaft was revolving. No frames, no entablature, no cylinders, just a bedplate and a crankshaft.  I had enough presence of mind to check the rpm - 120.  This I did by counting - having spend a lot of time when young sleeping with my head next to great aunt Maggie's grandfather clock, which ticked once a second, I can count seconds pretty accurately.  But the ludicrousness of it disturbed me, and I woke up.  No sooner awake than a long submerged memory appeared.  In one of Kincaid's erecting shops (I-shop) watching others bedding in a diesel crankshaft. Blue having been applied to the journals,  Jimmy Cram the slinger looped a rope round the crane hook then a couple of times round a suitably positioned crank pin. Someone held the free end, up with the hook, let go the rope when the crankshaft revolved. Lift out the crankshaft and see what's what.  Did I actually witness that, or did I make it up?

As they say Hugh, it's all in the mind!


ooroo



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