vegetarian metaphors.

n my last night dream i was dealing with this huge pumpkin. as a completely beginner in pumpkin recipe, i had all the processes imaginary. i was peeling it over a whole sink of boiling water, feeling like if i was shedding the skin of a human head.

don't take it wrong. i have no experience in peeling human head. dreams do not always come from empirical memories.

then i cut it in half carefully. one side of it was weirdly smooth and the other side was full of seeds. those seeds were huge, too. so huge that the arrangement of them was like a monster coral spreading inside this half pumpkin. i turned this half around to avoid the physically sick feelings it triggered, but i could not help turning it back to observe those seeds. i almost cursed my involuntary behaviour.

it was a sunny day in the dream. the sunlight sparked on the pumpkin halves and i found myself stuck in a situation that might get worse if i left the pumpkin there--it might turn alive. i did not mind it turning alive as a whole. just turning alive as two halves with uneven seeds would be too much.

i was afraid of seeing the seed-filled half starting running. it seemed to have no idea that once it moves the seeds--or its brain--would fall off all over my kitchen.