I was with some Romanian chap (a friend, apparently) and his young child on a bus. They didn’t speak at all. A dodgy bloke with a moustache, who looked kinda Mexican, was driving - he was giving us a lift to somewhere or other. I soon realised this was a bad idea, and I was trying to get us out of the dodgy situation. It was dark, there was nobody else on the bus - an old 1980’s coach. 

Despite my protestations, the dodgy driver took us to some dodgy carpark, it was sunny and desert-like, like Mexico. We tried to leg it when he stopped the bus, but his friend was in the carpark with a gun. They quickly agreed to let us go if we starred in a film they were making. Having no choice, we agreed. The scene required me to stand with my back against a wooden wall, with my hands flat against the wood, and for the driver to fire a gun at me. The shot was supposed to go through the space between my finger and thumb and leave a hole in the wall. We practiced it once (without my hand) and he hit the mark. Then, for the actual take, he missed and hit my hand in the fleshy part between the thumb and first finger. It left a bullet sized round hole, and it bled a little bit. I was really pissed off with him and walked off, slating his lack of professionalism and general acting crapness. I told him that he had no natural talent and he’d need to practice 500 times before trying something like that again.

I was really annoyed that he shot my hand. I don’t know what happened to the Romanian and his child.

Can anyone interpret this for me? Winning suggestion wins…. something intangible.

5 Responses to “Last Night I Dreamt #01 - Shot in the Hand!”

IndieLimerick

April 22nd, 2008 - 11:58 am

Maybe you tried out one of your theories “Is eating a whole block of cheese in one sitting worse for you than eating the same amount of cheese over the course of a week? “

helen

April 24th, 2008 - 12:04 pm

According to the bastion of reliability that is dreammoods.com:

“To dream that you are shot represents a form of self-punishment that you may be unconsciously imposing on yourself. You may have done something that you are ashamed of or are not proud of.”

Did you make a small child cry? Did you leave a public bathroom without washing your hands? Tip less than 10percent?! What have you done?!

jusk

April 24th, 2008 - 2:19 pm

IL - Ah, cheese, I do like a glass of cheese before bed.

H - I don’t know. It was only a minor shooting, so I can’t have been too ashamed of it, and my reaction to the ‘punishment’, was to lambast the Mexican punisher and walk out of the dream, so if the punisher is my own subconscious, then that’s rather funny.

OneForTheRoad

April 24th, 2008 - 7:36 pm

bullet = penis
hand = your mouth
Mexican = Mexican

hope this helps.

jusk

April 25th, 2008 - 11:14 am

Thanks OFTR, that helps a lot. But you don’t win the prize.

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