Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Before bed: worked; went to the Fyxx with my siblings; walked home; went shopping; ate food; cooked; washed dishes; started composing a letter and stopped after an hour or so

To bed at 12:27am

5:20am

1. Getting ready for the first day back at school with my brother and sister; but it's the first day back at the school i left in grade one combined with the school i started in grade two. (I don't recall if my dream self knew what grade i was going into.) The three of us were talking about how all the other kids have darker clothes (darker meaning, rougher, more like grunge/goth/punk styles) than us. I was wearing grey sweatpants with a rip in one knee and either a black patch underneath or i was wearing black sweats underneath. I was both a child and an adult as i go into the school and look my classroom. Or, i'm passing quickly from child to adult. As i walk through the halls some kids say, "Hi," to me like i'm a student, others as though i'm a teacher (or at least an adult, or maybe just an older brother). Then the school becomes a university (not a combination of the universities i attended in real life, and not masquerading in the dream as a particular university) and as i descend a spiral staircase there is a group of cooks/bakers/servers giving away free cinnamon buns. The buns are these crazy things that were deep fried and covered with icing and blueberries. Then i'm in a restaurant like Stella's on Sherbrook and asking about the ingredients in different dishes. My server is someone i went to elementary school and high school with and i ask her if some Asian rice dish is made with vegan rice. She calls back to a guy in the kitchen area who is someone i also went to elementary school with but haven't seen in years and when he responds he's calling out from inside a nightclub. He says he wouldn't recommend anything on the menu at all. He and i glance at each other and i can't tell if he recognizes me although i recognize him. There may have been one other person from my elementary school as well.

2. (This dream took place before the one above.) One of my siblings and i are hanging out in Winnipeg's North End or maybe the Maples. They walk me to a bus stop on a corner, where apparently i have a small bungalow house that used to be a business. I step inside my house while my sibling uses a pay phone outside. I come out and they're gone and i'm worried that they thought i wasn't coming back or that something happened to them. I then feel the need to rush inside my house and lock the front door--which is like the front door at the store i work at in real life. I soon go out to catch a bus right outside my house. I think the time in the dream world when i was catching the bus was 6am-ish.

8am

1. (I think this dream happened just before i woke up.) I am adult riding a small mountain bike around Hamilton and Cavalier (close to my parents' place). It is a bright, sunny, summer afternoon. I'm looking for a certain school which is in the area in real life. I'm riding through a different school's playground that has a friendly-looking sign that says something like, "If you're in this playground and you're over 18 years old, please go to this adjacent playground." So i ride through an open fence gate into the other playground and pass people leaving the school who are coming out of a wedding.