{"id":7789,"date":"2015-10-26T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=7789"},"modified":"2015-10-26T17:35:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:35:43","slug":"i-dreamed-of-projectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/26\/i-dreamed-of-projectors\/","title":{"rendered":"I Dreamed of Projectors&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/projector_platter-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-7790 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/projector_platter-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"projector_platter\" width=\"725\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a>I dreamed last night I was back in my old movie-theater projectionist job. One of them, anyhow, but maybe somehow both* of them simultaneously; you know how dreams are. The machines hadn&#8217;t been tended in a very long time &#8212; of course not, I haven&#8217;t worked in a theater in 22 years! &#8212; and they were caked with grease and that red powdery stuff you were supposed to wipe out of the film gate after every screening. I can&#8217;t remember what that was&#8230; some kind of lubricant on the film itself, I think.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, I dreamed I was cleaning projectors and threading film, spinning platters and feeling the deep, white-noise thrumming of the motors in the soles of my feet and the pit of my stomach. I was on a schedule, of course. I had to get the movie started on time. But I was totally relaxed about it, riding the wave and letting muscle memory do all the work. I was in my element. And it felt really good to be back in that time and place. I was <em>happy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m not one to read too much into dreams. I don&#8217;t think they have much meaning in and of themselves, and I find lengthy analyses of their symbolism both tedious and silly. (Sorry, I just don&#8217;t believe that a talking chicken represents that time I was teased by a girl in third grade, or whatever.) But I can&#8217;t deny that dreams definitely produce genuine emotional impact, or that those feelings sometimes linger in various ways long after you wake up. I&#8217;ve been thinking about this dream all day, remembering the physical sensations of contentedly working in the dark with obsolete media. And I&#8217;ve been wondering what exactly happened to me yesterday that might have shaken loose those old memories&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>*I actually worked for two different theaters, under vastly different conditions, back in the day. So for my dream booth to somehow be <em>both<\/em> booths at the same time was&#8230; interesting. But hey. Dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dreamed last night I was back in my old movie-theater projectionist job. One of them, anyhow, but maybe somehow both* of them simultaneously; you know how dreams are. The machines hadn&#8217;t been tended in a very long time &#8212; of course not, I haven&#8217;t worked in a theater in 22 years! &#8212; and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reminiscing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}