dream, Fri 29/5/09

(I haven't been sleeping well so seem to be dreaming more again.)

A whole bunch of people I know and myself are in a field, playing some weird version of football. My brother is there, and I explain to him why I don't really like spending time with him. I tell him that I was annoyed he didn't visit or call while I was in hospital, and feel that once his wife got what she wanted out of me (as a bridesmaid), she forgot all about me. He explains to me that he didn't want to deal with anything unhappy straight after he got married. I reply to him that he cannot expect to ever be forgiven.

* * *

We're in the Philippines and I go to a house. Outside the house a whole bunch of EMSians are crying because ES's mother is dying and apparently she is well-loved by the EMS community. MD stops me and asks me why I am here. I tell him a friend of mine is dying - s/he won't yet die and this person has yet to find out, but they are dying. For some reason I know before them.

I am walking along the dirt/gravel road and SB and SM are there, in school uniform. I go up to SB and say, don't you recognise me? He does, but he pretends I have him confused with someone else he knows. I shrug and continue to walk along the road, alone.

* * *

I just remembered another amazing fragment - RI had this bag full of Tom Paine books - for some reason Common Sense was available in several large tomes. He was on his way to the library to photocopy them all as he'd borrowed them from the library. I thought he was insane to be photocopying so much.

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Posted 6 months ago

dream, Sun 8/3/09

I was walking up an alternative version of High St, Northcote. It was a sultry summer day, and I was waiting for a tram. They didn't seem to be coming regularly. The tram stops seemed very far apart. Eventually, I reached one and a boy I had a crush on for years in high school was there also. Next to a lamppost, there was this massive beanbag. Both of us jumped into it.

A couple from high school who are still together today came to say hello to us. We walked a while with them. They took us to a field - yellow, the grass all dried up from lack of rain. I was separated from my school crush and walked the field alone.

I came across black cats, some lying in the dry grass, one injured, one bleeding, some following me. It occurred to me that at the lamppost with the beanbag I'd left my belongings - two coats, three bags. One of those bags was a laptop bag and I was petrified of losing my laptop.

All of a sudden, I was at the same stop when I realised I was on High St. Ages away from my belongings. I was afraid they would get stolen. Again, it took me ages to get to the same stop. I walked for hours till I reached the same stop and was so relieved: my things hadn't been stolen.

When I picked them all up, for some reason I was flipping through a magazine. It had an apology e-mail from someone who had written an abusive e-mail to me in real life. I was shocked, yet found it funny.

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Posted 8 months ago