Significanct PL dream
A dream I had last week while staying at my parents over Easter...
It is autumn 1945, some time after VJ-Day.There's a big ball going on, soldiers, sailors, airmen, still in uniform, women, booze. I'm James Martin, coming down the wooden stairs onto the dancefloor, with a woman in my arms. Except... she's upside down.
James Martin's holding her around the waist, her legs are in the air, her bleached blonde head inches from the floor, her arms flailing around. She's petite, small and slim. James is smooching the inside of her thigh above her stocking top, as if he were kissing her lips. James's mates think this is extremely hilarious. He's showing off but is also quite aroused - my feeling was that the woman was a prostitute. The band is playing Ray Noble's Cherokee. James is dancing a quick-step, the woman still laughing and shreiking like she's on a roller coaster, legs kicking against thin air. They continue the entire dance like this, to the amusement of all around. They've never seen anything like this! What a showman! Enormous appetite for life and fun. The next tune the band play is Glen Miller's Stairway to the Stars*. The dream fades...
And then the dream shifts to James's childhood. He's sitting out on his parents' farm, on the veranda, it's long (I reckoned later around 40ft), the farmhouse is a single story. James is looking out toward the dusk sky. This is the same place I dreamt of in the tornado dream. West Kentucky? East Texas? Again, very realistic.
* I had both tunes in my head; the first I identified correctly in my dream, the second I thought at first was Skylark, but a few hours after waking I worked out that it was indeed Stairway to the Stars. Both songs are of the period.