The Dream Journal of Philbert’s Phables is one of the most popular sections of the blog, despite having not been updated for years. Well, here’s an update, and hopefully more to come – if I can remember them.
I am presented with very stylized versions of blue passenger jet planes, complete with what appears to be a ceremony for their first use. The planes have sort of flowery, jagged white frills surrounding them. The rest of the dream is forgotten.
The Tengu appears in another dream, of which all else is also forgotten.
Analysis: I often took airliners between Taiwan and North Carolina while I was growing up, and many of these routes would fly through Haneda or Tokyo Narita. Blue and white are ANA colors, although I usually flew United or what was Northwest back in the day. In the in-flight magazines of the planes would be featured prominently “Tengu dried beef jerky”, which was somewhat oddly out-of-place.
I figured the people marketing this snack must be really proud of their product to place it next to ads for Absolut Vodka and Beefeater Gin, which were also fascinating to me as a child since I could not drink, and now understand it was probably meant to be a drinking snack. There was a chocolate liquor and a sweet “ice wine,” appealing to a child but alas, my parents were not game.
