Still obsessed with my Newfoundland trip, many waking hours are spent daydreaming about the ocean crashing upon rugged headlands, of breathtaking vistas and Vikings!
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to find that my night time dreams are also coloured by this incredible experience, including a recent one which involved a voyage on a Viking longship.
I’m not sure how much of a voyage it actually was because when we turned south towards Gros Morne I think the ship became a car, but for a few moments I was in the presence of an awe inspiring ship, one that had graciously slipped out of time and into my dream.
The longship in my dream had a name about it’s prow, it was the Polonius.
This meant nothing to me at the time, other than a name I vaguely knew, hey it’s in a King Crimson song!
The next day my curiosity was aroused and I had to find out if this meant something. Since, it turns out Polonius is a character in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet – it’s pretty unlikely that Vikings were naming their long ships after him!
More interesting is one of Polonius’ better known lines in his advice to his son -
“This above all: to thine own self be true”
Was that the message of my dream? Most of us are tossed and torn between what we ‘should’ do and what we really feel we ‘want’ or ‘need’ to do. It’s an interesting quote to have come from my dream of a glorious Longship.
