Dreams & other things
A friend on Facebook brought up the topic of weird anxiety dreams a while back. It made me think about how much I enjoy the heck out of my dreams even when they're full of awful occurrences. Here's the most recent memorable addition to the collection.This ramble through the wilds of my subconscious took me to one of my regular locations: a HUGE university campus that grows and changes depending on how recently I've visited my alma mater and other factors in my life I haven't pinned down yet. I'm always new on campus, I'm always clueless about where anything is, and I never know anyone. Signs and maps are ubiquitous though, and I do a lot of research.In this dream I'm supposed to assist with a medical procedure in one building, but I get trapped by a doctor who doesn't like me in a classroom building on the other side. So I come up with a clever escape plan involving a cat and a clock (details were vague, but I am *sure* it would work and it does.)Then I have to thread my way through all the back paths on the campus I don't know yet to get back to my new dorm to change clothes so I can properly help with the Important procedure (the nature of the medical issue was never made clear/important to me, nor did I ever grasp the specific need for new clothes. I just know I need them. )And of course I keep getting lost in weird places like a grotto with pine trees and glowing mushrooms. And I steal a bicycle at some point, one with multi-colored glittery streamers on the handlebars. (Important detail) Also, there was rain, but not on me. All this made perfect sense.On the advice of the mushrooms I find my way nearly back, but I have to dodge through a food fight in the dining hall to get to the right quad. I get out the door to find that the whole place is unrecognizable because some frat boys have covered all the buildings in big colorful building wraps like bouncy houses designed to look like psychedelic replicas of Roman landmarks. ( my dream university does not have fraternities or sororities, by the way. Yet there are frat boys.)And they're doing it all for some big unnamed festival so everyone on campus is out and about celebrating and getting in my way. Given I don't even know the names of all the buildings or the normal layout, I have no chance of ever finding my dorm in that mess.Even in my dream I was thinking, "okay, but this is beyond absurd," and I was persuading one of the frat boys to reveal which building was mine when I woke up.Objectively I would expect that dream to be jam-packed with dread and worry, but it wasn't. It was honestly a good bit of fun.That's all for now.
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