#also didnt mean to only talk abt the reproduction based ones those r jsut the ones i read so far

[hometownrockstar]

ive been having dreams lately where i am watching a show or movie or reading a book, and am just in awe of the writing and metaphorical and surrealist imagery and later go to my friends to tell them all about how cool it was (they never care in my dreams tho which is funny) but then i'll wake up and not understand the media anymore... not just because it was weird, like the imagery is usually normal enough for me to grasp in the sense of like, absurdist art, i mean i just can't grasp what the symbolic meaning or themes of it anymore like i could in my dreams where it all made sense... its as if they were symbolic of things that dont exist in the real world

the best thing i could compare it to would be the book The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelley Jackson, its a short story collection about different human body parts, but in worlds where they exist with completely different purposes, its hard to summarize. one chapter shows eggs (as in the human reproductive kind) as a sort of hypnotic, folklore symbol that humans have valued in a supernatural way for centuries, and it includes a part of a supposed old film about the phenomenon with citation notes of critical analysis of it. another goes into the history and uses of sperm, which are now dog-sized creatures that run around and are pests like pigeons, and includes directions on how to properly cut and eat them. another tells the story of how a giant fetus flies down from the sky and becomes a sort of christ figure to a town, a tourist destination and a pastor and a deity. all of the stories are written in a matter-of-fact way, like they were written in these universes where this is completely normal, and its like i can grasp SOME sense of symbolism, some sense of themes in the text, but cant understand the meaning completely, as if the themes are ones only able to be understood within the universe with the amount of cultural context built in the universe over centuries. its extremely fascinating and unlike anything ive ever read