Admittedly, this title is a tad misleading. However, it is apropos considering my blog is titled “deep thoughts on random stuff.”
So, “get a room” in this case is based on some thoughts a bit deeper emotionally than the usual meaning of begging someone to please cease their public displays of affection. Rooms in dreams and in song lyrics are often more than just rooms in architecture or design.
Various rooms, as they appear in dreams, represent parts of the self, one’s personality or subconscious. For example, a living room might allude to your public self, the bathroom is probably your secret self, and the bedroom, your private self.
I recently wrote a column entitled, “Lifelong Learning.” As it turns out, that must be a theme circulating inside my head in that I dreamt about having a different kind of desk in every room in my house.
As dream theory would have it, I must then be emotionally hard at work on my various aspects of self, private, public, and secret. Presumably the goal is achieving peace, contentment, satisfaction, even happiness in all those areas.
I’m recently preoccupied with the Pharrell song, “Happy.” I’ve been stuck in rewind on the line, “happy…clap along if you feel like a room without a roof.”
You’re welcome. Did I plant a song line in your repeat loop? It’s kind of like that Cher line, “do you believe in love after love!” Again, you’re welcome.
Back to “Happy,” I engaged a bit in revelry envisioning Pharrell’s room without a roof. It was fun, and made me happy, if you will.
My room started out commensurate with the “It’s a small world,” attraction as it was at Disney World in the mid-70s when I first saw it as a young adult. I remember looking up from a moving seat to a chock-full roofless room of mostly white, sparkly, magical stuff with the “small world” song stuck on repeat.
Walt Disney, innovator in animation said, “if you can dream it, you can do it.” So, my desk in every room encourages me that my thinking cap is intact and operative in every area of my life.
What does your roofless room look like? I imagine my neighbor’s roofless room of happiness closely resembles his museum-like “hunting” room. I’ve never seen anything else like it.
But we don’t have to have an actual room in which to enter a happy place. We need only our imagination.
I’ve always loved the thought that books can take you anywhere in the world, even to other worlds. And one of my all-time favorite books is Anne of Green Gables, where heroine Anne Shirley uses her vivid imagination to “see what she can be.”
In 2012, tennis great, Billie Jean King said, “you have to see it to be it.” It seems a bit corny, but it speaks of the power of vision.
Vision is such a gift. If you can envision a room without a roof, if you can enter a happy place in your imagination, I believe it’s possible to be happy from your head to your toes, even if it’s only for a blessed moment before you must come back down to earth.
Oh, that we could all be visionaries. I wonder sometimes if we inhabitants of this planet have allowed our minds to become so glued to the floor that we can’t imagine anything other than the garbage that is fed to us from various media outlets or the multitudinous negative people who pass in and out of our lives, concretely or virtually.
If you were to imagine yourself as a room, what room would that be? How is it furnished? What are the colors which dominate the room?
Is your room enclosed with four walls, a ceiling and a floor? Or is your room outdoors? Are you a traditional room, a custom room, or a far-out room?
Are the dimensions of your room strictly measured and inside the box? Or would a carpenter have fits accommodating your vision of your room?
Do me a favor and at least let your room be one without a roof. Let the sky be your limit.