Trains and Cars and Superpowers

I’m at a train station trying to get home, there are some classmates with me. We check the timetables, only find one train going the right direction and it’s still hours away. There are only a few people around, I know today is supposed to be the town festival but everybody is quarantined at home.

As we climb the stairs to go look for the ticket booth, a classmate stops me. Wouldn’t I like to rent a car instead, she asks? It’s a service provided by the local hardware store and it’s only 16 bucks. I accept.

Now Steven Universe is the one who’s renting the service: along with a car it also offers a complete superpowers package. You only have to cover your body with transparent film (food wrap, basically) and you can jump very high and even fly. Steven is enjoying his new abilities and takes the chance to kiss a girl, but as soon as she feels the film on his lips she pushes him away, disgusted.

Steven is so upset he jumps on his rented car and crashes against a wall. At the hospital, while his body is in a coma, his spirit wakes up and doesn’t realize what happened; wearing only one of those backless hospital gowns, he skips around and dances outside in the garden.

Sweet Danes

I need to go the local Embassy of Denmark. It’s located exactly where my town’s courthouse is, in fact it’s the same building, but in the dream it’s surrounded by green, lush plants. A Danish couple lives inside, husband and wife, both around sixty years old. I’m greeted by the husband, he’s wearing glasses and has big gray hair, a beard and mustache. The place from inside looks more like a beautiful greenhouse, sunny and filled with potted palm plants.

(Photo by Thomas Verbruggen on Unsplash )

The man asks why I’m there; I explain my Gran has run over his wife with a car, but she wants to come clean and apologize. He’s very happy to hear that, wants to know how old Gran is. I say she’s 78*.


The wife comes over, she also has a gray bob and round glasses, looks quite friendly and lovely. She explains she broke her leg in the car crash but’s she’s all better now, and really relieved to learn it was an old sweet lady’s fault. She couldn’t have forgiven anyone else, especially a drunken youth who’d hit and run.


*note: IRL my grandma is 86 and cannot drive.