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In dreams begin political responsibilities

I seldom remember my dreams. They used to come more readily to mind, years ago; now I’m lucky if I can snatch some fleeting detail from my nighttime reveries. This is, I think, an indication of an utterly boring interior life. Ah, well.

Other people apparently have more going on behind the psychic scenes, however, and for hundreds of people, those nocturnal activities involve the current crop of presidential contenders. Novelist Sheila Heti - a Canadian, interestingly enough - has compiled an online list of dreams involving Obama, Clinton, and McCain. My dear friend Holly is one of these documented dreamers, and her subconscious was one of those deemed interesting enough for the Washington Post to feature in a recent article by Monica Hesse:

Holly Silva also felt introspective after her therapy-themed fantasy. She dreamed actress Kathy Bates was her psychiatrist, who told her that her problems were all related to the glass ceiling. “I thought her analysis was a little trite, very Feminism 101,” says Silva, a medical copy editor in St. Louis.

But then a parade of magazines began to float by on the movie screen of the dream, all featuring unattractive photographs of Clinton. “And I realized [the dream] wasn’t about me at all. It was about Hillary.”

Silva, 41, had been leaning toward Obama about 80/20. “When I woke up from the dream,” she says, “It was more like 65/35.”

Rich with meaning indeed, as Hesse described it - but more interesting to me, and I think to Holly, is her casting the accomplished actor/director and Oscar winner Kathy Bates in the role of the psychiatrist. I see the beginnings of a feature film here!

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