The Parasomnial Order

DREAMS FROM THE BRAIN OF MATTHEW JAMES

PHANTASMAGORIUM

A DREAM WRITTEN BY HIS OWN HAND UPON WORDPRESS

This was a dream about watching TV with my mother. There was an interesting commercial on that spoke to me in a still-small voice.

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The Television

1 I was trying to get my mom to watch a television program about the Origin of Species when I saw this commercial for the Morris & Morris law firm. The commercial consisted of a father-son duo, with father’s arm around the son in a loving manner, and other hand on the Bible solemnly swearing under oath to tell the truth and nothing but the truth.

2 They both looked like a beady-eyed 19^th century Darwin with the sideburns and all. But strangely, the son looked older than the father. The father was rambling on and on about their practice. I remember laughing out loud because of the cheesiness thereof. But then I realized that these two were really the Father and the Son—as in God and Jesus. I felt this guilt come over me because of my mocking.

3 I then got on my hands and knees and prayed for the Son of Man to put a temporary halt on Parousia. For I wasn’t yet worthy of his Kingdom. Then Jesus from the TV screen looked at me while his Father’s sideburns stared at him, he (Jesus) said:

Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

4 I remember thinking to myself, isn’t that what he said in Matthew 10:34-39? I told him that I wasn’t worthy of him and that he should go about his business and finish up his commercial. He rebuked me severely and the TV turned to fuzzy static. I asked my mom if she just witnessed that, but she said she hadn’t. Then she told me to fix the TV.