Dream interpretation about Bear, Drugs, Black man, Job, Ocean, Instrument, Ancestors
A bunch of people were doing an ancestry type show, like looking into their ancestors’ names and livelihoods. One of them was the comedian Shayne from Smosh, who was apparently aware of his ancestry and had looked into it a lot, and was mostly looking for answers to small and distant mysteries—his family tree was otherwise clearly laid out. He had a bit of royal heritage that he could trace pretty far. There was a point where a researcher dressed and painted like a clownfish was standing at the bottom of the ocean, among a swarm of clownfish, and I told my mom that if researchers paint themselves like these animals and go “live among them,” the animals will believe and accept them. There was another researcher that dressed like a young bear, this one swimming at the bottom of the sea, and even though it moved strangely I first believed it was an adolescent bear and not a human researcher in a bear costume. Then there was something about me explaining to my sister Marley that “they used to put crack cocaine in instruments,” a very small amount but it impacted musicians’ health. “A man might get nose issues after 30 years of playing the trombone,” I said. Having been a pre-professional violinist myself as a child and teen, apparently I had experience with ingesting crack in small amounts and suffering at least nose pain. I spoke to another young woman, maybe a teenager, who was Asian and looked similar to many people I used to be in orchestra with, and we commiserated about this drug thing and having practiced our instruments obsessively. Then back on the ancestry show, a beautiful young dark-skinned black man with hair braided to his scalp learned about his ancestors. He wore a dark hoodie and a deep blue shirt and reminded me of Kendrick Lamar. The presenter for the show said he had an ancestor “John Henry,” and John Henry’s son had named himself “John McHenry.” The man seemed to both understand and quirk up his lip to this, like this news would make tracing his ancestry hard, or he maybe disliked that this imitated the Scottish tradition. I’m not really sure why he made that face but this info was presented in an intense, somber way. Some other names were told in the vein of “Name Name” and his sons “Name McName.” I remember the young black man’s face as he listened, and the bright whites of his eyes, and glimpses of people (“researchers” dressed like animals) at the bottom of the sea. The presenter demonstrated to the young man that his ancestors were calculating and private, and simply asked themselves “will I get to work today?” And how paid work was imperative to their freedom and well-being. They were asking “will I get to work today?” Because their lives were so dangerous, so compromised, due to racism, just simple efforts to live and work were constantly under threat. I recently lost my job and was working on my manuscript last night, in which themes of Black American ancestry and experience are central. Towards the end of the dream, the researcher dressed like a bear swimming swiftly at the bottom of the sea scared four other young bears who were behind a large log or some kind of ledge. Just before I woke up, the researcher took off the bear mask and revealed himself to be a young Indian man (not Native American, India Indian) wearing a hat with a feather tucked in it, and the four bears behind the logs were suddenly young women clapping at the man’s reveal. The point was none of them were actually animals. Just before I woke up, end credits rolled like it had all been a movie.
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11 Oct 2025
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