(I think I’ve dreamed about bringing coffee to my vet? Which I should do actually, he was very nice when I called him in hysterics 5 minutes before closing time.)
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In My Dreams I’m Often Convinced That We Moved Out To An Identical Apartment A Few Feet Away
I dream that I’m going to a private school, classes are so much better ant the teacher is fantastic, but I’m afraid I can’t afford it on the long run. The school is on the highest floor of my building while the teacher lives on the first floor; I go visit her, look out of the window at some fireworks, and start crying: I used to live here, I realize, I recognize the view. I tenderly touch the couch and clothesline. When did we move away from this apartment? We live one floor above now.
I go back home and find my dad cheating on mom with cousin V. I’m so mad that I want to push her from the balcony, but I just kick her out of the house. Dad’s only option is to tentatively go back with mom now, I think. I show him the camera I just won from a vending machine but he’s not interested. It’s worth 500 bucks, I say, pleadingly.
I go meet with Gran, hoping she at least will be happy for me. She isn’t wearing a mask, I notice, and neither am I, we’re gonna get in so much trouble. She asks me to go buy something at the pharmacy. I get there and I already forgot what I was supposed to buy, cream maybe? No, coffee, definitely. The shutters at the pharmacy are already closing. I pop my head in ask if they have any coffee. Thy don’t.
And Again And Again
I dream that it’s the last day of school. There’s a young substitute teacher, I’m chuckling with my friends and he throws me out the classroom. Then he follows me along the hallway, trying to decide what my punishment should be. He said I will have to cook something, I lie and say I cook too much at home already. Now we’re inside an Ikea and he’s still following me, a security guard even asks me if I need help. I find my favorite blanket in a trash can.
It’s the last day of school again, I’m driving to class with my cousin, I tell her I’m gonna go work for our rival company and she says, do what you gotta do. The classroom is enormous and nearly no seats are empty, I finally find one right in front of the teacher. A girl offers me chocolate coffee, I refuse politely and immediately regret it. I notice everybody has Nintendo 3DS: why? Did I miss something? The teacher is a young woman with a blonde ponytail, I feel some obvious lesbian vibes. She starts talking and my alarm rings.
Peter The Creep
I dream that I’m at the beach town, looking for my boss’ son who has been missing for three days. We spot him walking down the street: IRL he’s an old family friend I used to play with as a kid, but in dream I find it normal that he’s also my boss’ son. Now, as an adult, he’s very tall and his eyes are very green. We shake hands awkwardly, then suddenly hug. It feels very nice. He explains he got sick and had to stay at a friend’s house for a while. And he didn’t call his mother?! I think, appalled.
We stop at a cafe, order cappuccinos. The owner is a short, bald man, he tells us he owns three pizza places and five cafes, including one near my building. He can’t remember where though, I ask my whole of family and none of us are able to locate the cafe.
The day after I’m at school, the formerly missing son runs over to me. He’s still very tall, eyes very green. I think I might have a crush. The way the conversation is going, I’m hoping he’s gonna leave his girlfriend for me, but instead he’s leaving her to be with… Peter Pan? The girlfriend is furious, she’s aggressively playing soccer. I try to hug her, but the moment I touch her I start shaking like I’m having a weird alien seizure.
They bring me home, put me to bed, I’m still shaking. I hear footsteps downstairs: I know it’s Peter Pan. Maybe he’s gonna cure me with fairy dust? He steps inside the room, I see he’s not a child, but an adult in a green leafy costume. I’m very disappointed with this casting choice.
Lil Anxious
I dream that I go back to the store to bring coffee to my ex coworkers. They’re all busy and everybody ignores me.
Then I dream that my grandma’s boyfriend is driving me home. He’s completely reckless, his turns are too wide, he keeps hitting walls. He’s wearing sandals. I’m terridied.
That Is What It Means Tho
I dream that I’m coming back home after school, on the stairs I meet two smiling Brazilian women carrying coffee. They give me a cup for free, it’s piping hot and I spill most of it, but it’s sweet and delicious.
At home I tell my mother there are two women opening a coffee shop on the second floor of our building, she’s very suspicious because she’s a coffee snob but I’m excited about living in such a cosmopolitan place where you can go shopping inside your own building, it’s very Hong Kong. I try to go to the coffee shop but end up in a nightclub on the third floor. The music is deafening and nobody is social distancing properly.
I steal a poisonous orange from my sister because I hate her and toss it in the park. I feel immediately bad because I’m afraid a dog will eat it.
And old lady with a handsome, intelligent face brings the orange back. She passes it to me over the fence and now it’s a piece of paper with a bird drawing on it. I put it back in my diary. She admires my art and tells me she likes birds so much she became an ornithologist. I tell her I also like birds very much. She gets angry and says,
That’s not what ornithology means!
I’m so ashamed I wake up.
Yes I’ve Been Watching Hamilton
There is a white Bull Terrier living in my building, and I dream that the owner asks me to walk her around the parking lot. I’m excited because I love that dog, I take a lot of pictures as a butterfly lands on her big noggin. More neighbors arrive with their dogs, we get into an argument, I’m filming the man yelling at me so twitter can doxx him.
Then I dream that I’m home with my cousin, she’s upset because she realized everyone hates her. It’s because she’s such a bully, I tell her. Boss Lady is there too, scowling at my mother’s very bitter coffee. There’s also a previously unseen Boss Man, he’s quizzing me on American Founding Fathers. He gives me a book about Aaron Burr.
Weirdo Fear and Pleasure
There is a man chasing us, he’s wearing an animal skull on his head. He’s immortal, no matter how much we hurt him he keeps getting up; eventually I throw a bomb and blow him to smithereens. I know this is gonna buy me some time so I go to class; I can’t pay attention though, ever few moments I glance at the door, wondering when the man with the animal skull will be back.
I’m taking a walk in town with Gran, we’re not wearing a face mask and I feel guilty about it. She buys a notebook and I pay for it, then she gets a coffee to go (more sanitary!) and I pay for that too, so now I don’t have any money left.
I go back home and use the notebook to copy down a Sudoku board, I make a big mess of inky splotches and have to rip out the page. An old schoolmate comes over, he shows me a book he’s writing: the plot is about a rich young boy (self insert much? I think) with a kidnapped little sister. The book *I* am writing is much better, it’s about a genius little girl living in Victorian times.
He notices a picture of Narcissa Malfoy on the cover of one of my books, says she’s the most beautiful woman in all Harry Potter canon. I argue that would be Rowena Ravenclaw’s daughter, I try to google her but there’s something wrong: I’m writing her name on my notebook instead of a computer, and each two words I write, a drawing that combines both of them appears on paper. I immediately start combining pornographic words, and I’m still having fun with the results when my alarm rings, dangit.
DECADE DREAM JOURNAL 