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Watched an Italian movie tonight: Antonioni's Red Desert. It was his first color film and shows a lot of his experimentation with color elements. The female lead (his wife in real life) plays a woman with a cognitive disorder. She has lot of mannerisms and symptoms that make it difficult to stay with her when she's the focus of the action. Over it all, the director makes a host of political/social statements about the life and times in which the movie takes place. It all makes for a somewhat nervous film that comes to a mostly unsettling end (or Finis).

Dreamed last night that I was moving into a rustic house set deep in the woods. I was moving into the place with a woman (wife) who was not fully enthusiastic about where we were going to be living. The narrow road to the place was treacherous and we had to proceed slowly to make some of the turns required to navigate the route. I managed to get us safely to the house and pulled into a parking area in front of the place. We got out and went for a tour of the place. We discovered quite a few problems--such as the water being cut off and other issues. It was really quiet until the next door neighbors cranked up a stereo system and started pumping loud music through the trees.

A second dream involved taking our kids (two boys) to their new school. There were some problems with older students giving the new kids some grief. There were also some conflicts when the boys went to sign up for some of the sports' activities.

The dreams were active and clear. I didn't sleep all that well last night and awoke in the very early morning a few times.