I dream about fighting with my dad because I don’t want to go to school. What’s the point, I yell, they’re never gonna let me graduate! It’s December 24th, the universe keep sending me signs that I should look up a certain nonprofit. I finally do and read the story about a young man who dreamed of opening a bakery, invested money with the wrong crowd and was arrested. I manage to save his last creation, a cream snowman standing on a red table entirely made of chocolate. The cake has crumbled and the pieces are covered in cat hair, but I think it’s still salvageable and bring it home for Christmas.
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This Was Really Interesting To Be In But Doesn’t Translate At All Into Writing
I dream that we moved into a new apartment, it’s beautiful and expensive, but as the days pass I miss our old apartment more and more. Until we find out we didn’t move at all, my dad brainwashed us into thinking we did.
It Was An Incredible Feeling
I dream that my dad’s gone to see his parents and relatives up in Paradise. I ask him how it’s going. He says it’s fine, they’re all on a bike ride. Somehow I can see him speaking on the phone, he’s riding his bike inside a forest with golden leaves. For one moment I bask in the absolute certainty that there is an afterlife and everything is gonna be fine.
Enough Of This Dream Pls
I dream that I quit high school because I’m too freaking old for that. Dad buys me a camera flash as encouragement.
Familiar Faces
I dream that I’m back in high school, my dad is also there teaching and everyone hates him. My old classmate S. is mad at me because she thinks I skipped the line to the principal’s office (I didn’t). Inside I ask for s signed note excusing me for being late during all next week, the principal is kind of bemused about it. While I’m there I steal my dad’s report and later show it to him, he’s very depressed about his low rates so I tell him the story of a young girl named Harry Potter who had round glasses, brown hair and really big boobs.
The next day everybody looks really happy, it takes me a moment to realize it’s the last day of school and I feel really dumb, why did I ask for that principal’s note? All the students around me looks like children and I feel ancient. I meet with S. again, although I don’t recognize her at all. We go home under my umbrella, I tell her about my college experience and how I finally found my true calling: photography. I don’t know where we’re going, I simply follow her and we end up on the beach. I’m happy to take a few pictures before a hasty retreat since it’s way too hot, I tell S. to call me back in the fall when temps are more human.
Conspiracy Theories
I dream that I’m going grocery shopping with my cousin; we pick the usual supermarket, always the same one. We get bread, squid, beef. The police is waiting for us outside, I wear my Falcon wings (yes, the Marvel one) and fly away. I get home and find out my mom has been arrested; my dad and brother are waiting for me in the living room, they explain that the country is now under a dictatorship and we’ve lost our freedom of speech. How long have I been out, I wonder. And also, is the police listening to us through our phones? Dad gives me a green glowy sticker, he’s acting like it’s very important. I stick it to my mug and drink some tea; I’m now transported into a magical dream world where I can talk to my mom. I’m a small boy and she is Princess Leia.
Two?!
(This one’s from yesterday.) I dream that I’m reading a strangely handwritten book about a group of paranormal investigators in their forties. There are two bisexual women and two men with long hair and big mustaches, one blond and one black haired, they’re in a loving relationship with each other. The fifth member of the group is Prince Charles.
Then I dream that I’m at the mountain house with my whole family. We decide to walk to the village but I forgot my camera and need to run back. I find a homeless man in front of the door, he is using a coin to trick our fingerprint lock. He’s very surprised to realize there are people in the house today, he begs me to let him stay the night. I call out loud for my dad who promptly kicks the man out. I feel slightly guilty.
That Place Felt So Familiar, I Need To Read Back And Find It Again.
I dream that I’m taking a walk with my mom and dad, I know exactly where I want to take them but I don’t know how to get there, I have to use my phone GPS. We get to an old water mill, long broken. Keira Knightley is inside, she says her time as mill guardian is finally over and one of us will have to take her place. Dad is chosen to remain, while my mom and I get to beautiful camping grounds in a forest, with a pretty cabin selling food and drinks. I know I’ve been here in a dream once before and I’m so happy to have found this place again.
After a week my dad joins us, except now he’s a young man with brown hair and glasses, he’s angry at his brother for some reason.
Lately It’s Dad And Sis.
I dream that I’m a comic convention with my siblings, I look and look but can’t find anything I’d like to buy. I realize with horror I’m too old to be a nerd. We stop at the stand of a fortune teller who as a long queue of customers waiting. My sister waits for her turn, then asks to the fortune teller for help. “I already did”, the woman says enigmatically and dismisses her. I’m angry because she’s obviously a con artist. That night we sneak into her house, her assistant finds us and shaves our eyebrows before setting the whole building on fire.
Then I dream that my dad is leaving for a journey and I don’t know where he’s going, I have to coax my sister into telling me, she eventually confesses that he’s flying to Sri Lanka, which is located at the North Pole. It’s a long, dangerous flight and my dad doesn’t like adventures, why is he going? She eventually confesses that he’s headed to a city called Lilium, looking for a white flower with healing powers. Suspicious, I ask my if she’s sick or injured. “I thought I was” she says sheepishly. Did my dad leave for nothing?
It’s Been Years Since I’ve Been In Venice And It Haunts Me Still.
I dream that I don’t wanna go to school, I want to stay home and watch girls kiss on Lucifer. My dad is obviously pissed, I fake a cough and my sister jumps to my defense, says I obviously have Covid and it would be cruel to make me go.
We go to Venice instead. My sister and I are on a water bus and we miss our stop, I see my dad looking at us from the crowd, his disappointed face is a lion’s. We get off at the next stop, my sister is freaking out because we don’t know where we are, but I’m the Venice expert after all, I guess we’re near the train station. Still, I hope it’s all just a bad dream and I’ll wake up safely in my bed, instead of having to travel all the way back home. I jump up and down, trying to wake up with no avail. We go buy train tickets, the journey is gonna be several hours long and we won’t be back home until next morning. I groan and groan and wake up safely in my bed.
DECADE DREAM JOURNAL 