Comments on: Perdita

By: Arizona

Arizona — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:26:22 +0000

Perdita means loss in Italian. Etymology from Latin perdere "to do away with, destroy, lose, throw away" giving us the word perdition.

By: Liberty Joan Adams

Liberty Joan Adams — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:49:54 +0000

There’s a description of it on one page, but no pictures. It says it’s “a perennial herb with erect stems 3-10 dm. long. Yellow flower heads are solitary or in clusters of 3.”

Apparantly there’s a kind of rose called a Perdita.
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/roses/perdita.htm

Also a whole bunch of bugs have it in their names.

By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:02:56 +0000

Yeah when I woke up, I knew what it was exactly. All that plus they taught me that song for healing or magic or something. Which reminded me of that interview I heard with the Sangoma dude. He talked about how he got songs taught to him in dreams for various purposes.

I also remembered another element of this dream. In it, I had a ring on my pinky made out of light or energy which indicated my belonging into this “priestly” order or whatever it was. And in my dream logic, I knew that a ring I bought in real life was supposed to be me trying to manifest this light ring in real life.

By: rev max

rev max — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:58:38 +0000

Really, this is a classic shamanic dream

being called - being tested - receiving allies - knowledge of plants - ancestral spirits

sounds like yer on the right track

By: Yasha

Yasha — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:42:10 +0000

This doesn’t seem applicable, but perdita means “lost” in Esperanto.

By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:17:44 +0000

Holy shit! That’s freaking nuts. Doesn’t PKD talk about Dagon and the Nommos in the Exegesis or somewhere?

By: jp

jp — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:11:38 +0000

i had a crazy dream last night that i was some kind of emcee at an event being hosted by the ancient semitic deity dagon. i had to introduce him, but forgot my script, so this weird half-man half-fish handed me a copy of a comic book that i could use instead! it’s funny now, but i was really terrified of screwing up in the dream.

By: Inder

Inder — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:07:44 +0000

I think Perdita is also a character from Shakespeare.

Last night I dreamt that I was a prisoner in some weird airport hotel. I woke up in this room and realized I had to escape somehow. I found two semi-automatic weapons in a closet, “locked-and-loaded,” and then took the emergency staircase down where i ended up in this airport terminal. Cops where everywhere, so I ditched the gun. I went to use the bathroom where these dudes were attempting to sodomize everyone, but I locked my stall door so they didn’t touch me. Eventually I found a subway entrance and got the F–k out of that dreamscape.

By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:05:22 +0000

Oh yeah, I saw that perdita rose connection as well.

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:04:04 +0000

The first thing I thought was the female dalmation in 101 Dalmations. I’m pretty sure her nickname was Perdie/Perdy. And I think Perdita is a rose.

I had a dream about BjÃ¶rk skeletonizing herself in order to become a home for birds. She claimed that she wanted to “give back” to them.

…I’m giving myself a day to analyze it before I decide that I was just dreaming about the fact that BjÃ¶rk is indeed weird.