Dream Diary Wednesday 24 September 1975

Wednesday 24 September 1975 

Mother comes in and embarrasses me in front of friends. ‘I remember when you were so high.’ Persephone there.

Dream Diary Sunday 21 September 1975

Sunday 21 September 1975

Tony telling me how to operate a TV (1940s but in colour). [Diagram: Screen marked ‘very bright coloured picture’. Knob to the right: ‘tuner’. Main knob marked ‘main knob’.]

Robert and Tony 1976

 

Dream Diary Friday 19 September 1975

Friday 19 September 1975 

Standing behind the bar at the Crown and Anchor [in Shoreham]. Gay barman there. This old man comes in and says to me, ‘These daytrips – do they go from Littlehampton?’ He has a brochure entitled ‘Salisbury’. He shuffles money and says, ‘How many tickets can you give me for 50p?’ ‘There’s a reduction for G.L.s’ the barman says. ‘OAPs if you don’t mind,’ the old man says indignantly.

[I worked on the promotion of Sealink ferries, but never behind a bar. No idea what GLs are.]

Above, th Crown and Anchor, Shoreham; below, me advertising Sealink crossings on Brighton beach, that summer.

Dream Diary Thursday 18 September 1975

Thursday 18 September 1975

Sitting with David, our arms around each other. Very embarrassed – trying to get away.

Dream Diary Monday 15 September 1975

Monday 15 September 1975

 

Dreamt of the UEA girl Fiona from Brighton. Saw her in Brighton yesterday. [The second sentence a comment; I usually have not transcribed such.]

An introduction to the diary may be read here: Pages: Dream Diary 1975 Introduction to the project

Dream Diary Sunday 14 September 1975

Sunday 14 September 1975 

Standing on a seashore with Persephone (Holst, that is).

Dream Diary Saturday 13 September 1975

Saturday 13 September 1975 

Dreamt of the ultimate ecstasy. A giant wave (soundless) – a mile high – swept over me and broke upon me and carried me with it. The ultimate ecstasy.

What a dream!

Dream Diary Friday 12 September 1975

Friday 12 September 1975

Tony with a big pack on his back goes through doorway. ‘Let the black man go through first,’ I say.

Big battle brewing.

 

Dream Diary Wednesday 10 September 1975

Wednesday 10 September 1975

 

MM calls but I’m assured it’s not homosexual business.

 

 

Three of us waiting. Drinking wine. Putting DOPE in it. A man is watching. He leaves. I go too. I think he’s going to the LAW.

            I go too along the side of Victorian tenements. The other two follow me closely.

            We were waiting for Maggie to give birth.

Dream Diary Monday 8 September 1975

Monday 8 September 1975 

Walking with Trudy along Brighton seafront. I know she’s still going out with Anton. That doesn’t matter. We hold hands. I bend her backwards on the promenade railing.

            As we are kissing, a cricketer passes and makes a dirty remark.

            I say, ‘Go play your stupid game with my father.’

[Dad was a cricketer!]

[These photos of Brighton in the 1975s are so evocative for me: Snapshots of Brighton in the 1970s - Flashbak.] 

Dream Diary Friday 5 September 1975

Friday 5 September 1975 

Dreamt of reading a book and seeing a film of it at the same time. It’s a D.H. Lawrence bookfilm and Trevor Howard is in it,

A big-breasted pregnant [lecturer] Doris McNabb is pointed out to me by her hubby.

 

[Odd, I know people who know him now. I didn’t then!] 

An introduction to the diary project may be read here: Pages: Dream Diary 1975 Introduction to the project