Louise Erdrich's "Skunk Dreams" brought up an unusual, but good point. What do dreams tell us? This is a concept that I spend a lot of my time thinking about. I don't often remember my dreams, but when I do... I always analyze and try to figure them out. I have dreammoods.com saved in my favorites (it's actually a pretty neat website, you should check it out.) I believe dreams are a supernatural way of telling you something, or perhaps telling you the future. Seriously, last year during the performance weekend of our musical "Curtains" I had a dream that involved our cast in the bottom of our hallowed out swimming pool. We were putting on our musical. I knew it wasn't Curtains though, because it involved a whale eating someone. I thought it was quite strange, but I didn't think much of it. Well guess what musical we're doing this year... MOBY DICK THE MUSICAL. Guess what it's about... a great white whale eating someone. Guess where it takes place... the bottom of a hallowed out swimming pool. WHAT?!? HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? I thought that was pretty neat... and a little creepy.
Anyways, she uses skunks as another thing to go off of her animal motif with. Skunks are known as arrogant creatures. They are not worth hunting because you can't eat them, and if you try to hurt them they can just lift up their tail and you'll smell terrible for a week. The author describes that if she could be any animal, she would be a skunk. She could live fearlessly and fall into a state of dreaming whenever she wanted. Believe it or not...skunks have dreams too. What do they dream about exactly? Do they have premonitions like mine?
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