The Year’s Over And Nothing Of Interest Was Gained

I dream that I’m staying at Gran’s with my brother and cousin (who is vampire but that has nothing to do with the story). Gran goes for a walk and I want to go with her but I’m still in my pajamas. When I’m dressed up I instinctively board a train. I don’t have a ticket and I’m afraid I’ll be found out so I get off at the next station just a few minutes later. I find Gran at the station, I can’t believe she walked this far; she’s trying to board with a fake ticket so I drag her away. We go through a little market, I notice no one’s wearing a mask: they all think they are safe. My cousin is crossing the street nearby without looking where she’s going, a car runs her over, she’s so upset she throws herself at their window just to scare them. She’s immortal after all. I try to book a train ticket for my brother and I to go back home. I can’t seem to be able to type anymore.

That Mask Dream Keeps Happening

I dream that I’m in a car and my mom is driving, she’s not wearing a seat belt and keeps going to the backseat at every traffic light, I’m very uncomfortable.We stop at an old lady’s house, she’s a Sim and her name’s Sylvia. She’s also a trans lesbian. I know all of this because I watched the Sims trailer.

We get to the market where my two grandmas (including the one that now’s dead) are waiting for us. It starts raining so I cannot walk to the stationary store like I hoped to. Nobody is wearing a mask, they don’t care anymore.

Touching One’s Face Gives Me Anxiety Now I Wonder Why

I dream that I’m at school, but also the school is my home and we’re all adults. I say how unsettling it is that it’s November 1st already, I swear it was December just a moment ago. Don’t you feel time is going to fast? I ask one of my schoolmates. No, he says, because I know how to make my life meaningful, and you should too. I can’t do that, I say, because I have ADHD.

Soon afterwards people start vomiting and, trying to give meaning to my life, I rush to help them. It turns out they ate coleslaw last night, the mayonnaise was made in a futuristic transparent machine –bis as a rocketship– and they had to wait 10 minutes and not touch their faces before it was safe to eat it. They didn’t wait.

If You Were Hoping For A Holiday Themed Dream You Are Wrong

I dream that I open a bookstore with two old schoolmates, M. and C. We only sell books about the Middle Ages so it’s not very successful. We’re going home one night when we see our rival bookstore has displayed animals (some sort of white monkeys) and toddlers in their storefront window. I don’t know if the toddlers are alive or just dolls, they move like real children but they look fake, they all have an identical bowl cut and their faces are covered in thin white fur. I pick one up and it’s drooling all over me, I clean its mouth.

We are now late, we rush to the train stop (it’s like a tram stop but for trains!) and barely miss our ride. We have no choice but to call a cab; a big, fancy orange car appears to pick us up, I cannot sit in the back with my friends because them are the rules, I have to climb into the trunk, it’s not pleasant. The cab driver is speaking in a foreign language on his phone, the only words I understand are “Angela Merkel”. The road to town is made of white marble and almost vertical, I’m terrified we won’t make it and when we reach the top I jump out the trunk. I tell my friends I’ll pay them back my fare tomorrow, they yell back it’s gonna be 15 bucks. As I run away I see them take one calculator each as they start checking if the cab fare is right. I marvel at how they can still do math after all these years.

Basic Facts About The Moon

I dream that I’m explaining to my brother how the moon was green and inhabited centuries ago, even as late as the 1300s. After all, the moon is just a big chunk that broke away from Earth, everybody knows that. What were the trees and animals like, he asks; it was a very unique ecosystem, I explain, because it evolved on its own for millenniums. Why is the moon so empty now, he asks; because everything died out, I say, but I’m sure if the astronauts would only dig a little they’d find plenty of skeletons.

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Let’s Throw In Some Crowd Anxiety So 2020 Can Stay On Brand

(Everyone in this dream is a Harry Potter character but nor really, maybe a knock-off.)

I’m at the mall and there’s a scientist demonstrating a toy house that can be transformed into a real tiny house, he will miniaturize people so they can live in the tiny house and save up on bills. I call my mom to show her this technological miracle, she’s much more interested in how hot the scientist is; I tell her he’s so young he could be her son. I decide to do some shopping but the mall is crowded and nobody is wearing a mask, I turn on my heels and run.