ksmith | Dream a little dream (Reply)

Two strange dreams last night. Both seemed fairly short.

In the first one, I think I was at work. I recognized some building exteriors, but not interiors--much walking up and down stairs and talking to coworkers while standing in half-constructed areas.

Anyway, I wound up in my car, being driven by a reader--yes, I was at the dayjob, but the writer job intruded. I didn't like this person and didn't want them driving my car--no, it wasn't someone I know or even recognize. I became even more upset when they drove my car through the double doors leading into a building, then left me there in the lobby to sort it out.

I got out of the car and went upstairs to get something I needed in order to drive the car out of the building--license, whatever. Kept running into people I wound up talking to. By the time I got back downstairs, the car was no longer in the building lobby. I found it outside in the parking lot, along with a note from site security that they had driven the car out and everything was fine.

Second dream was weirder in a way in that to some extent, I was reading a short story while at the same time playing a part in that story. I recall holding the pages in my hands. It was a short work, 5-6 pages. The author had sprinkled dictionary entries throughout the work, formatted as they would have been in an actual dictionary. I read a few of these, though I don't recall the words. Checked the last page, saw that a character died, but didn't see the name. Went back to the beginning of the story and started reading, chiding myself a bit for trying to read the end first.

As for the story itself...I was in a car again. There was a cat. Other people I didn't recognize. We were going somewhere, but I don't recall where, except that we did stop in an alley at some point. After that, the dream dwindled into nothingness.

The only thing that strikes me about the two dreams is that they seem to be working at cross-purposes. The first seems to tell me that something that I think is a problem isn't, while the other reinforces the sense of uncertainty I've been dealing with for quite some time now.