What Dreams May Come...
OK, so I am having a little anxiety about Wednesday. I just had a dream where I was back at college. I was waitng for Dustin and Lauren (DD's best friend and her boyfriend) to meet me with football tickets. After I realize they aren't hearing the cell call because they are already at the game, I decide to head back to my apartment.
Now, de ja vu-i have had dreams before of train tracks, like subway systems. Best part, because I have "been here before" I know how to get across the tracks and to my apartment!
My apartment building is like a casino hotel in Vegas. In fact, I think this as I am boarding the elevator for the 20th floor. Once inside my apartment, I am upset that I can't go to the game and decide to get something to eat.
I enter some sort of common room/kitchen. Only the wholoe place is like a retro-museum. Against the one wall is an old, old frigidaire; complete with an old ironing board inside! Next to it is a well perserved child's kitchen playset and dishes. All I can think of at this point is, "Wow! I'd love to have this!"
Across the from the old fridge is a newer model and beside it is yet another newer model; all from the fifties! Then I spot the real fridge and freezer. I open up the freezer and realize all the ice cream is the crap I don't like. When I finally spot the stuf I do, there's only a bite left. Since it's really NOT my ice cream, I chose to put it back. (The only flavors in this freezer is this crappy stuff Brad bought. It's a knock off of Chubby Hubby, without the peanut butter. It is sooooo nasty!) In the background is Ross Carmichael and a friend at a table, scrutinizing my every move.
Now my dream takes a little turn. I begin watching an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation. In this episode, Alexander, Worf's son, is having difficulty with puberty. I am engrossed because I have never SEEN this episode, and believe me, I have seen them all! Alexander is desparately trying to contact a klingon ship and his father to explain his feelings. He has no girlfriends, the guys are making fun of him, etc. Next thing I know, I am watching clips of Alexander's childhood. Not only that, but they are weird!!!
So I decide to take a walk. I am outside my casino-like building and it is a zoo! All sorts of folk roaming around and all I can think is, "Damn! too many people to have a smoke!"
So I walk around and realize I might be put on the TV, from live shots for the football game. I am wearing shorty-shorts! Way inappropriate! and EW!
I get in this line to buy this container to hold my smokes (it's pink and has my football seating assignment on it, remember, Dustin has my tickets!) I can't find anything smaller than a twenty. This lady is busy and doesn't have change! I walk away with a five spot and I keep thinking I got jipped!
Now, I'm back at the casino apartment lobby, where I run into my roomates. (One of the is my actual roomate, Kathy.) I am searching my pocketbook for money. I can't find something...I am getting frustrated. I ask them when the rent was due and they tell it was already. I let them know my MOM is paying and I haven't clue what goes on at home. they let me know that I will receive notice after 3 months if I default on the rent.
I take real short trip to my "house" where I procede to tell my mom it is not OK for her to have 4 closets and that I fit all my stuff into one closet. She doesn't care....
I am back outside my apartment building. The zoo, I find out is a big guest relations thing, including spectacular food and tents and the like. I g to the elevator area and I cannot find the 20th floor elevator. (My apartment is #2020.) I look and I look. I end up taking the wrong elevator to another floor. In the meantime, I have totally missed the ending to the Star Trek episode and now I hear there is a new Gray's Anatomy episode. That showing is in a tent!
I meet up with this woman who guides me around to elevators. I can't seem to find my elevator! I go up this weird set of escalators and BAM! I have a baby in my arms with a very wet cloth diaper! There is a toddler with me, but he soon goes away. I take the diaper off the baby and continue to hunt for my elevator. I am looking down corridors and hallways and nothing!
Finally, I find the twentieth floor elevator. It's old and decrepted. I get in, naked baby in tow. I try to press the button, but it's old and confusing. The elevator compresses and heads down (?). I look out this peep-hole window and I am just floating and floating with no direction. In an elevator, with a baby!
And then I wake up! Weird, huh?
4 comments:
Wow! You really dream in detail!!! It sounds like you might be a little stressed...not surprising, all things considered. Hang in there...it'll work out great!
omigod... wow... talk about crash courses in psychology... love the terminology...
apartment 2020(like 20/20 vision)
on the 20th floor (lofty > tell me it wasn't a loft apartment!)
in a casino-like bldg. (college is risky... you're taking a big gamble)
roommate kathy, not husband brad (starting to develop some individuality and need support from your feminine side to self-actuate?)
naked babies (creative children need diaper changes attention too)
4 closets vs. 1 closet (putting all of your energy into your kids v. giving some of it to yourself)
the mother from hell (just a reality check)
how am i doin'? let's compare notes!!!
hmmm....
i didn't catch the 2020thing, but considering i'm getting my eyes done soon...
and the apartment was a loft (geez!)
the casino thing i think has a lot of meaning. risk being one. being completely overwhelmed and lost, as i usually do feel in those casinos. chaos, of course. and loads of energy!
kathy comes up in all of my college dreams. she was my first real friend outside the "shell." she was smart and together and really helped my find my way!
nakie kids have been my reality for so long, i didn't know much else to life. interesting to note that the bratty toddler is gone and i carry this baby in my arms in the elevator. perhaps a "self-nurture" reference, too.
the closet thing...i like your take on that! i thought later today how i went back to chastise HER and i didn't ask about the rent. a first for me, even in dreams.
she still makes me sick!!!
i see ellis tomorrow. i told him about the dream. he said to bring in amy takes, so i just might copy and paste all of this!
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