Another dream, special guest: Richard Gere…
by rebecca ~ September 26th, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized.
Gere the Buddhist
This time I had a job cleaning tables for Hollywood. At the tables sat Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon, Richard Gere, and some other famous person I don’t think about in the waking world (I don’t think about any of them, actually, so it frightens me they represent some icon in my subliminal mindscape).
They were sitting around brainstorming and editing a screenplay that focused on people without money. I wiped tables. I moved to wipe Richard Gere’s table because his was especially sticky and dusty, even though he had his three ring binder on top of it.
He was upset that I was wiping it as he was talking, so he took both hands and shoved me away. I exploded emotionally, telling him “You have no idea what it’s like for 99% of the people in the world. You are all clueless!”
Anyone who knows me, knows that this type of angry reaction happens rarely in me (I can count my “real world” emotional angry outbursts on one hand, and I still have some fingers left to lift–and it’s not the middle one, yet). I woke up, touched my eyes and I had real tears. Wow, I thought, Richard Gere really pissed me off. Then I remembered he’s supposed to be Buddhist, so maybe this was why he upset me even more?
Clearly, I have a complex about the top 1% in this world…which is healthy….I think….Anyway….Om…..