weird dream

[redbird]

A few nights ago:

I dreamed I was getting a new tattoo, something of daffodils. Only, for some reason, I'd wanted text along with them, and the artist, who I trusted, was working directly on my skin [1], and I realized a moment too late that he'd misspelled the word. So we were trying to figure out some way to fix it, either squeezing the omitted letter in somehow, or covering it over.

Out here in real life, I doubt I'll ever get a tattoo that has words in it, and I'm in no hurry to get another tattoo (and very much doubt I'd want daffodils) but somehow a recent post by the_maenad reminded me of this dream.

[1] Yes, I know better, and so does any competent tattoo artist--you have them do the design on paper first, and you okay it, then stencil it on and ink it. It's still not perfect, but I'm too good a speller and proofreader to let that sort of error past me, though one hears stories of such mistakes. But this was a dream, and "misspelled" is an easy and obvious way for a tattoo to go wrong, and maybe one that would bother me more than most others.

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised, I was expecting that to the the Hokusai picture of two men running away from a giant octopus which my aunt has on the wall of her spare bedroom. I wonder how many giant ocopodes he drew.

Redbird, that sounds like an absolute nightmare and makes me shudder just at the thought.