So, I had a really strange dream today. I dozed off for exactly 15 minutes--from 5:09 to 5:24. I had been studying for Chemistry and it was nearly time to get up and make dinner for the kids. Anyway, the first strange thing about this, as those of you who know me best know, I NEVER remember my dreams. I almost never even remember having dreams. Ever. Weird, I know. The second thing that is so strange is how real the dream seemed while it was going on. While I said I never remember my dreams, that wasn't true when I was I a kid, but they never felt this real. Anyway, back to my dream. First the cast of characters (the fact that I can remember so many details is very strange to me as well):
Jeanette: a close friend of mine since high school.
Krissy: a friend and coworker at the Cheesecake Factory.
Ashley: a close friend from Lynchburg; we worked together at the Olive Garden
Mary: my cousin (and godmother) who died in August, 2001 after battling colon cancer
There were some others in the dream, but their faces faded away as soon as I woke up. It may have Teri, Jen Lacks, and John Foster, but I cannot be sure anymore. My kids were in the dream too, but I never saw them, only heard them.
So, I'm sitting in a room similar to the room I have my computer in; it's even four steps lower than the rest of the house, but in my dream it's much smaller. I can hear the kids palying upstairs. When I look through the doorway, it looks like a kid's room. There are bunkbeds, and I see a lot of red.
I hear a car pull up so I look out the window. I don't see my driveway or front yard. Instead, it looks like a motel. There are parking spaces, and I can see an overhang, like a second floor balcony. At this point I notice that I'm looking out the window through a Halloween mask. It may have been Anthony's Optimus Prime mask. I took it off. Anyway, a white truck (maybe a pickup) is parked in the spot closest to me, facing the building, and there is a car three spots over. The two spots in the middle are empty, and this is where Krissy is parking her black Jetta, only she doesn't drive into the space facing the building like you're supposed to. Instead, she's parking parallel to the building and perpendicular to the white truck. There's not enough room to accomplish this by standard parallel parking. Instead, Krissy has the car hopping sideways, inching toward the building, until she is as close to the curb as she can get.
It fast forwards (or I forgot what happened after that) to the living room. I'm sitting at the back of the room facing the front door. The kitchen is to my left. Everyone is sitting around. Both Krissy and Jeanette say something, but I forgot what they said when I woke up. Everyone is carrying gifts and it seems to be some sort of celebration. I see a bag, and something is in it. All i see is the word "engagement". Then, whatever was supposed to happen doesn't. I'm told to wait a minute, by either Krissy or Jeanette. As far as I can remember, no one else said anything at all.
Like I said before, this dream feels very real as it's going on, and this is where it got weird for me. Someone is walking across the living room toward the front door. It's Mary. Her hair is short, the way it looked after growing back following chemotherapy. I'm feeling really freaked out, but that passes. She doesn't say anything, she just smiles as she passes by, and then she goes out the door. At this point, I clearly remember having the conscious thought "Oh, this is a dream. I guess I better get up and give the kids dinner." I don't get up though. I cannot remember anything else happening, but after laying there for a few seconds, or minutes, I don't know, the phone rings, and I think to myself "Alright dammit! I'm getting up" (the caller id said "unknown caller").
I realized I had had a dream, and that I remember it. I tried to sort through as many of the details as I could before I forgot. Then I had to yell at the kids for being too rowdy. I can't take a 15 minute nap without them going nuts?
Anyone know anything about dreams and what this might mean, if anything?
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There are websites you can use to look that stuff up.
I had a dream the other night where a rat eating mongoose was running around my bedroom, then it tried to climb into my bed. I screamed and started flailing my arms, only that wasn't in the dream, that was for real. I almost pushed my girlfriend out of bed.
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