12 Mar 2024
Dream
I walked by this woman’s shop in the mall but it was a big store and she didn’t have a lot of things but the stuff she did have looked cool/good. This woman was a business owner (I wasn’t going to go by her shop originally but decided I should) and a part time tattoo artist. The first day I walked by it was at a mall and it was good, seen some old friends and left the mall thinking because it was a store with Middle Eastern vines to it, it was in the NE of the city. When I left the mall ut was gloomy, cloudy and looked it was going to rain, and I was actually in the SW. The next day I returned, she told me she also does tattooing. She drew a heart in the wal to show me with some kind of paste. It was lopsided and didn’t look the best. She said she would do one for me. I was hesitant but was trying to think of places that wouldn’t be seen often that she could place this heart tattoo. I thought about under my left ring finger but I did want that there because I didn’t want it to look bad with my wedding ring when I get one. So I kept trying to think of places. Some friends from high school came in, looked around and started making fun of her stuff. Those people and their friends who I didn’t know started heckling her and making her feel bad for being mediocre at what she did, so I defended her and stood up for her. The store was full of people, had cool lights going and was kind of a spectacle going on before all this. Everyone turned to look as I berated these people for making fun of someone. I didn’t scold them because I felt the need to impress anyone, I did it because I felt like they had no business telling that to someone and being mean to them. Once they left with a blasé attitude, everyone bowed to me. The woman who owned the business started tearing up and telling me she was going to do a surprise tattoo on me for free as a thank you. I was really nervous to get it done but she started tattooing the middle of my back on my right side with black ink. I already have black tattoos so I was hoping so badly that she was not using any colour. She was not using any freezing or numbing for the tattoo and it hurt but I kept going. Someone in the back yelled out that she started using numbing cream when she tattooed because she realized the pain doesn’t make it more cool. They turn out the same. The lady who was doing my tattoo had a look of like well now you tell me! I’m in the middle of a tattoo! But we kept going. I could also see the tattoo as if I was a spectator watching and not the one being tattooed. But I was. And I could feel the pain from it. She started drawing fingers as part of a hand, and it actually looked very well done. Not sloppy or messy at all. She was tattooing a right hand opening up. Like a hand palm up in a relaxed state, but opening up more, and slowly. She did the pinky finger and started the ring finger when I woke up- but I knew what the tattoo was going to be. I know it was going to be done in all black ink, a right hand, palm up, opening slowly, with a red string weaving between the fingers and maybe around the wrist? But definitely a loose red string weaved between my fingers. Then I woke up before she could finish the tattoo.
