Going Home and Watching a Movie, the Usual

I’m walking home from work, on the streets I’m really trying to keep my social distance. Two little girls approach me, start to chat, they want to know how old am I? Where do I work? I try to send them back, tell them they’re not allowed to get this close to people. Their dad, who’s walking a few feet behind, apologizes. I tell him, look, your kids are nice, why don’t I give you my number and when all of this is over you guys can call me? He gives me his email address instead: I recognize the name, he’s one of my customers.

I arrive home and when I go up the stairs I see two teen girls laughing at me, I realize it’s because I’m not wearing any pants. I get inside my apartment and go straight to bed.

In the living room my family is watching a James Bond movie, it’s set during the Olympics and there’s a grand scene at the opening ceremony. Three of the characters sing on stage, the songs are beautiful and the lights are a spectacle, but I feel bad for the rest of the cast singing the chorus in the background, that always used to happen on Glee. Matthew McConaughey is there, he plays a character called “The King of Thieves”.

In the end James Bond dies and is put in an old coffin. I get up and my family tells me it’s too bad I missed the movie; they don’t know I listened to the whole thing from my bed.

House Call

It’s morning, I’m walking to the store when I hear my boss calling my name with a weak, whiny tone. Her voice comes from a house alongside the road: IRL that house simply doesn’t exist, there are only trees in that area, but in the dream I see a small yellow duplex covered in dried vines.

(Photo by Eduard Militaru on Unsplash)

I go inside the door on the right, I see a one room apartment with a large bed. Boss Lady is in the bed, hair all tousled and looking sick and miserable. The floor is covered in used paper tissues. I avert my eyes because it looks all too intimate, and I wonder where her dogs are. Just then a man arrive, a dog sitter no doubt, leading the two dachshunds on a leash. I take them both and they fall asleep on my lap.

They neighbor family arrives, I can see them clearly because there’s no walls inside the duplex. They sit all around the bed and start reminiscing about a lawyer who used to live here in the house. He was found guilty of murder, and everyone agrees it’s such a shame, he was such a distinguished man. I leave the house so I don’t have to admit to these rich people that I believe the lawyer was definitely guilty.

A Slightly Creepy Building

I have a friend whose boyfriend wants to propose, I’m helping with the surprise by hiding a bed for him. She arrives though, I need to distract her, quick! I end up telling her she’s being cheated on. It works, she storms away and the coast is clear. It seems like such a brilliant idea.

We are in an old building, a bit unsettling. I go back inside my apartment and there’s a giant tombstone smack in the middle of it, made of red marble. Everybody laughs like it’s a great joke, but I read the name on it and it’s the tomb of someone old and sick, but of a 31 year old woman. Suddenly it’s not funny anymore and I need to leave the room.

I need to pee, badly*, but all the bathrooms in the building are men’s bathrooms. I seek the help of another friend who’s apparently a celebrity. She has a big bathroom all for herself, with a whole cleaning crew tirelessly working inside it. I pee and then start helping along and cleaning as well.


*Usually a good indicator I need to pee IRL.