{"id":1669,"date":"2022-05-27T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2022-05-27T09:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:28:14","slug":"the-mystery-of-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/the-mystery-of-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERY"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERY<\/span><\/h1>\n

I stopped watching television in 1998, when <\/span>Seinfeld<\/span><\/i> ended its nine-year run.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the fall of 2021, I had a dream in which I was watching a BBC crime show. When I worked on the dream, and looked at the offerings on BBC, I found myself attracted to a program called <\/span>Vera<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>Vera<\/span><\/i> began broadcasting in 2011 and continues to the present time. The series is based on the Vera novels by British author Ann Cleeves. As I began watching, I also began reading. Something about the crime genre hooked me and since then I have watched numerous other crime shows and read the novels or screenplays they were based on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"This activity also brought to mind that as a kid I read a lot of mysteries and would also write my own stories and scripts.. When we got our first TV (1950), it also housed a record making turntable. The whole family participated in performing the scripts I wrote. I felt I was reconnecting with some important piece of myself left behind.<\/span><\/p>\n

A subsequent dream pictured the title page of either a novel or screenplay entitled, <\/span>Rule of 3<\/span><\/i>. It also showed that this was an “Arlan Condon Mystery.” Arlan Condon is one of the main figures in my novel, <\/span>DREAMS: The Final Heresy<\/span><\/i> (not yet finished).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The majority of dreams this year have involved the mystery genre in various ways. some seemingly influenced by the books I’ve read or programs I have watched. But never in any sense just repetitions\u2014always adding a twist or turn or phrase or simply a word. And others with content that is wholly new and different from anything I have read or watched but still enveloped within this realm of crime and mystery. I do not experience the insistence and persistence of this theme as evidence that I am not \u201cgetting\u201d the message. Instead, it feels like an essential <\/span>collaboration<\/span><\/i> with \u201cthe other\u201d<\/span> prodding me with ideas and elements to take seriously in this task.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am used to experiencing dreams as tasks and most of the things I have written or published have had their origin in dreams. Still, I am an old man now with much \u201con my plate\u201d as they say. Lots of things to finish. At this rate I will run out of days before running out of things to finish. For some time I fought this \u201cpressure.\u201d No longer. I now consider it a bounty and I am learning to enjoy it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERY I stopped watching television in 1998, when Seinfeld ended its nine-year run.\u00a0 In the fall of 2021, I had a dream in which I was watching a BBC crime show. When I worked on the dream, and looked at the offerings on BBC, I found myself attracted to a program called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}