2 Apr 2024
Dream
I dreamt I was visiting another family that I don't know in waking life, but in the dream they were part of my group of friends. We had all decided to be part of a Christmas gift-giving tradition where each family drew another family's name out of a hat to buy a gift for. We were visiting this other family at their home. There were about 20 children, all homeschooled and they were also self-sufficient, growing all their own food. They lived in a decrepit house, and there were piles of spare parts and broken items in the dirt all around the house. The mother gave me two very prickly chayotes, and yelled at me about how to hold them without getting painfully spiked. I was uncomfortable and wanted to leave, but the mother called me back, reminding me that she still had to give me the gift. She had laid a dirty piece of tattered cloth on the dirt, and was piling odd objects onto it. She had decided to give me an object for each letter of the alphabet. Most of the items were broken, or were fresh produce from their garden. I didn't want to take anything from them, partly because it was so dirty, but also because they seemed to have so little. I just wanted to get away.
