A Very Bizarre Dream...
Jun. 10th, 2007 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nekosenseiHow do I explain this one? Last night, I listened to two songs by Loreena McKennit and ended up with a book idea. I thought a really interesting source that might give me some more ideas was the Koran and the history of Islamic civilizations. (Knowing me, even if I do come up with a good plot and characters, it probably won't get written anyway...but what the hey). Out of curiosity, I googled an online translation of the Koran in English and ended up reading the first two chapters of it. Do you even call them chapters? Or are they called books like in the Bible? I have no idea. I figured that, at any rate, I wouldn't be wasting my time since I've been interested in world religions and biblical history for quite some time now. (And particularly in today's day and age, it wouldn't hurt to have some knowledge of the what the Koran is all about anyway).
Back to the story. As I was reading it, I found it difficult to understand, but I was able to pick out the gist of it. (I was more interested in reading it for the stories it had to tell anyway). I imagine it must have been difficult to translate in the first place since the Koran is written as poetry. Am I right? And poems don't always translate well from one language to the other.
After I finish reading the first two chapters, I went to bed since it was pretty late. I ended up having a dream in which a man, who I never really see in the dream, was explaining the parts to me that I didn't understand. I was actually kind of annoyed that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doomsey woke me up in the morning because he interrupted it and it would have been interesting to see where it would have went. I didn't remember anything he said when I woke up, but in the dream itself it made perfect sense and, from my reaction, I was interested in what the guy had to say.
And no...don't try to read anything more into it. It was just a dream and I'm not going Muslim. Thank you.
Oh...and I'm probably not going to read the Koran before I go to bed anymore either. That was just too weird.
Back to the story. As I was reading it, I found it difficult to understand, but I was able to pick out the gist of it. (I was more interested in reading it for the stories it had to tell anyway). I imagine it must have been difficult to translate in the first place since the Koran is written as poetry. Am I right? And poems don't always translate well from one language to the other.
After I finish reading the first two chapters, I went to bed since it was pretty late. I ended up having a dream in which a man, who I never really see in the dream, was explaining the parts to me that I didn't understand. I was actually kind of annoyed that
doomsey woke me up in the morning because he interrupted it and it would have been interesting to see where it would have went. I didn't remember anything he said when I woke up, but in the dream itself it made perfect sense and, from my reaction, I was interested in what the guy had to say.And no...don't try to read anything more into it. It was just a dream and I'm not going Muslim. Thank you.
Oh...and I'm probably not going to read the Koran before I go to bed anymore either. That was just too weird.
