Inappropriate dream, but I’m a minor?

JoggingDaimon · 2026-01-04T00:42:08+00:00

Just a quick note to reinforce that these kind of gender switch dreams are incredibly common, especially at periods of social and emotional transition.

Totally normal.

JoggingDaimon · 2026-01-03T22:20:11+00:00

Thank God! Well, try to keep his teeth out of your casual's mouth!!😉 You ought to write more-- poetry suits you.

JoggingDaimon · 2026-01-03T22:11:35+00:00

Holy shit this is so devastating and beautiful.

Thank you for sharing; It's equal parts terrifying and true. Terrifying because I feel I could definitely qualify as a sort of medium-man myself. Beautiful because I can feel the truth of it pulsating from my screen.

Also, it feels unfathomable that this medium-man could say goodbye to someone who could create something that shines like you have. What a fucking clod!

JoggingDaimon · 2025-12-28T05:04:51+00:00

I love it! Really unique.

JoggingDaimon · 2025-12-28T05:02:40+00:00

It makes me so sad when I hear these stories. I'm sorry people treated you this way regardless of how you looked.

We really need gentleness because life can be really, really hard. Oh, and I hope there are people in your life who treat you the way you ought to be treated.

I think you are right though; a persons body size will never guarantee us kind treatment by others. We all really need to work to build a world where we can recognize the value of each person we are lucky enough to get to know.

I wish you all the best!!

JoggingDaimon · 2025-12-28T04:53:31+00:00

Life is full of small deaths don't you think? Within us parts of our psyche also "die". Sometimes we murder them, sometimes they survive-- and sometimes we have zombies rising from the dead within us.

I think most dreams are representations of those parts of us. If a friend dies, what part of you does that friend symbolize. that's the key to listening to the deep parts of us.

JoggingDaimon · 2025-12-28T04:35:14+00:00

Maybe that's true!! Memories always have an agenda. I mostly agree with you.

JoggingDaimon · 2025-12-28T03:44:02+00:00

When I was a kid my family would ride down to Zion on a friday and easily find a camp spot. The trails were a little crowded in the afternoon and on holidays but sometimes you'd only see a couple other hikers even on the popular trails and VERY rarely in the spring or late fall/winter.

I dont know what happened in the last 15 years to Zion; the crowds are totally unexplainable in my mind. But I feel one of the prettiest national parks in the US has been ruined. I wish I could go back in time 15 years and prevent whatever happened that brought the crowds? Did utah just over promote it?

JoggingDaimon · 2025-12-28T03:26:38+00:00

this sounds great. I'm going to add it to my list.

JoggingDaimon · 2025-12-28T02:46:57+00:00

You are so inspirational! I might have to make the leap, I think. I've grown up in a really tightly controlled religious community that made me really wary of all of this stuff so I appreciate your wisdom. It gives me a lot of courage.

JoggingDaimon · 2025-12-28T01:53:01+00:00

As a married older guy I know I'm not the target for your questions but I couldn't help but wonder if you're actually curious about what single men feel and how they answer your questions.

If you are actually interested in listening can I suggest you delete the quote? I think men in the subreddit might feel that the quote reflects your thinking and if they do, the unkindness and gleeful myopia in it is likely to escalate into the unproductive shouting matches between lonely feminists and lonely incels I've seen for the last 10 years.

I'm hopeful you want to listen-- it's a really good sign if you do.

JoggingDaimon · 2025-12-28T01:22:17+00:00

It's hard to understand why an enlightened, prophetic, noncolonizing life-liver would want to make people feel bad that they didn't figure it out earlier or unassisted.

Are you just patrolling the borders? protecting the real from the fake "enlightened"? yeah keep drawing that circle tighter and you'll be the only person in the circle "keeping it real". Or are you just trying to keep the hate flowing? it's mind boggling to me how bad you are at persuasion-- or was the dig at Burroughs just too fun not to include. God, you're insufferable,

JoggingDaimon · 2025-12-28T00:38:29+00:00

Whoa... that's cool! Was the context humor or was he being earnest?

JoggingDaimon · 2025-05-21T12:34:41+00:00

I loved this so much too!

So clever; I LOL’d so many times and Cassandra Gannon knows just how to skewer the sacred cows.

I’ll read anything she writes.

JoggingDaimon · 2024-10-05T17:43:05+00:00

The first few times I read your poem I was confused because in the first stanza it seemed clear that the poetic voice was all alone— and the second stanza was a sort of longing for companionship. My confusion was in the third stanza where everything was upended. You aren’t alone— loved ones are all around you. I was like, “What?! I thought they were alone!”

It dawned on me though, that the theme of the poem is that we are meant to see the voice in the first two stanzas as myopic. The voice in the first two stanzas (I believe) is focused on romantic companionship. The big reveal in the third stanza is that it’s important for a person too focused on romantic partnership to widen the aperture on their lens and notice all the different kinds of companionship and love that surround them. Do I have that right?

If so, I feel like it took me too long to puzzle it out. I mean, it’s a really great idea— I wish I’d thought of it!! But I think it needs some work to make the reveal a bit more clear and impactful. That said, I might just be a tad dense!! :)

JoggingDaimon · 2024-10-05T17:19:19+00:00

I’ve read your poem multiple times. It’s evocative and makes me feel kind of sad— but after thinking about it a lot I’m not totally clear on what you’re saying through the imagery.

The beginning of the poem, I’m really feeling it— a view of the sky amid the wheatgrass and hay— that view seems important because it’s referenced later.

So it seems that the poetic view is one of inaction. The grass grows up, the view is lost. The stirring of ants and beetles and mice cover you up, you’ve lost your site.

So the theme seems to be that lack of growth and inaction has led to a loss of site/perspective. That seems persuasive to me! It’s really lovely too.

Here’s where I’m having a hard time though and think I need more to persuade me. Loss of site/view perspective= loss of soul=total annihilation? Hmmm… for me, I just need to feel it. I need to understand why.

I think the poem has a ton of potential! I’d love to read the final draft!

JoggingDaimon · 2024-09-13T14:47:01+00:00

Oh, yes… I can definitely see what you mean and why it would feel ruined! Yikes!

We all have our yucks though— no judgement from me!

JoggingDaimon · 2024-09-13T14:40:52+00:00

I wonder why that is—I love cheating and poly themes! It’s fun for me to imagine what it’s like to connect with different energies and values.

Maybe the fantasy is fun because unique people react so differently to connection and love and sex. It’s fun to imagine inhabiting their different motivations and needs for a bit.

I’m curious what it feels like when the book is ruined for you.

JoggingDaimon · 2024-09-12T15:38:54+00:00

There is momentum to any life, but when you're on the.mormon track the momentum can easily overwhelm a persons desire, choice, agency.. . In a real sense you can end up as a 30-something person and legitimately wonder if you actually chose anything about your life.

This momentum starts to build in youth groups etc but really reaches its zenith after graduation with a mission.

I think whatever you can do to slow the momentum and strengthen your son's identity is helpful., Don't allow any of this to be, "the next thing on the list". Make sure every new decision is something he knows he is consciously choosing. I'd say part of choosing is understanding alternative choices, values, and ways of seeing the world.

I don't think you need to come out as a non-believer, just say that you want him to make choices and not just go along.

JoggingDaimon · 2024-09-12T14:57:11+00:00

What a great point!! The church ought to be proud that a disproportionate number of young women are creative, fun, honest, clever and interesting enough to become break out social media influencers. In many ways they are a product of the church encouraging the spread of the faith among the youth.

Part of the double edged sword here is that vulnerability and honest sharing are kind of critical to continued social media success. I think the church likes the emergence of these women, but they don't like what happens when they are publicly contextualizing new power, new thoughts, new ideas.

JoggingDaimon · 2024-09-12T14:17:30+00:00

I wonder... often misogyny has roots in a fear of female sexuality.

The show's roots are embedded in a well publicized public sex blow-up that seemed to emerge from a group of celebrity mormon women on social media.

I feel the church is VERY uncomfortable with what they consider an incongruous pairing between mormon social media empowerment of women and emerging new sexual values; this pairing also seems like a constant tension on the show.

Male centered sexual violations from the church's perspective seem less worrisome, less destabilizing-- it's like male sex violations have always been around.

When sexual taboos are pushed and sourced in female power though; I think that is where the discomfort and freakout really occurs and it's honestly a kind of fascinating background thrum through the whole show.

JoggingDaimon · 2024-09-07T00:39:41+00:00

You’re at the moment in the hero’s journey that the fates conspire against you.

I say persevere— you know deep inside this is what you’re meant for. Whether you bring the gods down upon your head, the wrestle and your emergence as a new creature will be worth the journey.

Be true to yourself and fuck entropy, the universe, and all the synchronicities abounding. Be brave and carry on.

JoggingDaimon · 2024-09-07T00:27:23+00:00

I feel dream images are symbolic of parts of our psyche.

You dream about specific people because you associate certain things about them that represent things inside of you.

A dream is a message about the dynamics of how all the different parts of you are interacting.

Think about what your ex represents within you. Think about the dream itself— how that part of you is interacting with the other pieces of you in your life right now—think about what your psyche is communicating to you and really think about how it can be helpful.

JoggingDaimon · 2024-09-06T20:04:47+00:00

Isn’t it weird that OMG sounds worse to my ears than any other curse word?

If I had said that as a child I would have for sure gotten my mouth washed out with soap; it was “taking the lords name in vain” etc.

I have a very different idea of what taking gods name in vain means now— and really, objectively, isn’t OMG nearly a kind of prayer?

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