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Can You Imagine, A Movie Theater That’s Actually Open

Posted on by Decade Dream Journal

I dream that I’m going to check a pair of shoes with Gran: my parents bought them and we have some questions for the shop owner. We get there and it’s not a shoe store at all, it’s a charity for used clothes. Did my parents steal from charity? The realization comes too late, they’ve already fled the scene and Gran is arrested in their place.

Then I dream about going to the movies in the evening, but there’s only a horror movie scheduled and I won’t be watching that! I buy some peanuts from a vending machine before leaving; somebody has bought a lot of food and left it in the bottom compartment, it’s still warm. There’s a group of people sitting at a table, eating dinner while they wait for the movie to start. I grab some shrimp and crispy pancakes and join them, blending perfectly in.

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No Ice Cream For You!

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I visit an ice cream parlor (that also sells shrimp for some reason). There are too many people gathered behind the counter waiting for their turn, the staff is just walking around chatting instead of serving and it takes a lot of waiting before it’s my turn.

Finally my number is called and I ask for two boxes of ice cream for a total of 8 bucks. I’m told I’m not allowed to buy two small boxes, I’ll have to take the big one that costs 17. I get angry and storm out, yelling that their business suck. I get home and furiously start writing a Google review.

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Space and Cooking

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I’m traveling on a cruise spaceship. A woman asks me why I’m not wearing a jacket – I think she’s supposed to be my grandmother, but she isn’t really. I tell her I’m not cold. It’s really cold in the ship and I’m clearly lying.

We arrive to a planet, start orbiting around it. An alien robot knocks on our glass door: he looks like something out of Futurama, tall and metallic, with a goatee that make him look like the devil, and four arms. The first thing he does inside our spaceship is turning the AC off, because it’s so cold. He tells me he used to pretend to be human, but has learned to accept himself. Then he goes back home, sits at his pipe organ and plays an evil song, which I think sounds very familiar.

Steven Universe exits the spaceship, and now my sister and I are watching him on TV. The planet’s ground is reddish brown, and the sky is purple. He buries some seeds: we know they are supposed to show his true love. A ghost-like projection of Connie Maheswaran emerges from the ground, and the real Connie looks at it confused. Steven blushes and runs away.

My dad is driving me to school. From the car window I see three people walking near the local park, two old classmates, both short with glasses, followed by Nicole Maines. I tell dad Nicole is a new student at my school.

I need to pass an entrance exam to start the new year: it’s a cooking exam, the teachers/judges are two Asian women. One is very nice, the other is extremely mean and keeps telling us we’re gonna fail.

I prepare two sandwiches, I put eggs, salad, shrimp and tomatoes inside. I find a shrimp oil bottle; it tastes rather strong, but just a few drops should be enough to give my sandwiches the right kick. The mean teacher notices this and tells me I’ve made the wrong choice and already sealed my fate. The girl sitting next to me smiles sympathetically; she is steaming something in a pressure pot and looks very flushed.

I bring my sandwiches to the judges, making sure to put the best looking one on the mean lady’s side. She immediately swaps it and takes the ugly sandwich. As she eats it, I realize with horror I forgot to put eggs in it, and indeed she gleefully tells me how bad it tastes. At least the other teacher seems to really like hers.

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