Dream last night:
New Years Eve and I am in the strangest Japan/Vancouver/Regina mashup with the girls off to some party. We are walking down a narrow street with high buildings like in Japan but the architecture and sunshine is from Regina and the smell and fashion from Vancouver. I realize that I forgot to wear shoes and say that I am going to head back for a moment. Some guy offers to lend me the yellow plastic slippers he is wearing but I decline. His feet might get cold in the slush on the ground. I will catch up. I turn around and head back to where? I guess home as I walk and walk and walk the things around me become more and more Regina and there is more and more snow. Then I am home, at my home in Regina but possibly structured a little differently. In the basement/garage/crawlspace I find a suitcase of clothes, a bath and a mirror. I should shower. Then change clothes. I spend a lot of dream time doing this and eventually realize that time is getting later and later and later and how will I get to that party. I don’t know if I ever find my shoes. I call someone on their cell - actually, people are leaving. OK - that is okay it is just confirming that New Year’s Eve is not my thing. It is a time for me to step back, step outside the world and wait until the celebrations are done. That’s what the dream felt like. I met up with Kim and Jemma later and we were walking down a Vancouver street at 3am and someone suggested we enter this one cafe for a slice of wheat cake that I thought was much too expensive ($8.50) even if we shared the price. No I can’t pay $8.50 for a piece of cake that is trying to be healthy! They had the cake’s recipe printed on the menu (too bad I can never really focus on those things in dreams…it’s possible that was some tasty cake). I think I eventually made it home. I sat on the floor in the living room. My mother was sleeping on the couch, my sister watching a movie and laughing and after all that walking around 3 different places I have lived with some anxiety over what to do about my shoes - I felt really really comfortable.
I have not had a long-strong dream in a while but I did last night. It might be this chest cold, a little hard to breath now and it wakes me up at night. It might be the chest cold medication I took before bed that still has my head in the clouds today. Whatever…it was nice.
