Squid and the Whale, The (2005) IMDB rating: 7.70 Plot: The patriarch (Jeff Daniels) of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but he has settled into a teaching job. When his wife (Laura Linney) discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the family, leaving two teenage sons to forge new relationships with their parents. Linney’s character begins dating her younger son’s tennis coach. Meanwhile, Daniels’ character has an affair with the student his older son is pursuing.

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Psychedelic Dream Interpretation?
Last night, I had a dream where I was watching a whale give birth to a squid under the sea. After the squid was born, the whale swam away and time sped up. I watched the squid live and die in under two minutes, never leaving the same spot. While all of this was happening, psychdelic music was playing. As soon as the squid died, it’s head turned into a seashell and it floated up to the top of the surface, and time slowed down and it exploded into a firework.

Any help?

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That is sooo trippy and sooo cool. I’m jealous, all of my dreams are stupid "oh no I still can’t find my locker".

anyway, I interpret this to be an examination of how impermanent everything is. The fact that you witnessed a birth and death in the span of 2 minutes demonstrates that you feel life is very short, and almost insignificant in the grand scheme of things. I think that the transformation into a seashell and then ascension to the surface, mimics some sort of afterlife for the squid. So congrats you get to have crazy trippy dreams with great philosophical meaning

S. | Aug 10, 2009