So many points in this one, too...

TANGERINE DREAM - "VANISHING BLUE"

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=L3-kMSpHrJI&si=d3UREvaHZyFVcT_K

The radio's soundtrack to me remembering my dream on my way to a class was Tangerine Dream's "Vanishing Blue." In my dream, there was a wounded bird that I thought my stepfather was perhaps going to rescue, but instead he put it in a box with a bunch of packaging and plastic around it. The bird made a few sounds. I said, I don't think that's a good way of dealing with the bird, to suffocate it. I knew that he didn't think the bird was going to live, so this was about euthanasia. I said when I was little, my babysitter killed a baby bird really quickly by putting twigs on it and then she crushed it really quick with her shoe. I opened the box to take out the bird. Then he laughed and said, "I'm not as unempathetic as you think I am," and took the bird out of the box. I could see something was going on with the skull of the bird and I said "oh yeah, she's very sick," and liquid was seeping out from a crack in the head so I knew she was going to die. Then I was alone in some very dark water, and I couldn't see anything, so I thought I'd gone blind. But wait, no, my eyes were closed, and when I opened my eyes, the dream ended. 

Why are you in my way? I asked a big truck being driven by a man though an alley before I manuovered off to the side to let him pass. I parked my car and went inside. The assignment was to make a picture of a bird and use stippling to show values. And it was important, the teacher said, to make sure there was a reflection of light in the eyes. Even if a photograph doesn't pick up the light, you should put that light in the eyes in your drawing. When she sees pictures in a museum of birds and there's no light in the eyes, she thinks they painted roadkill. The light in the eyes shows life. 

But hmmm, sometimes the light does show up in the photograph too...