19 May 2024
Dream
I had a dream that I was selected to take a trip to an unknown destination. My childhood friend was going too, but we only briefly interacted in the dream. When we landed, a group of us were picked up by a bus to take us to our final destination. It seemed as though there was many of people of various culture backgrounds, and I noticed a theme in which everyone who was there were people from different countries who felt a concurrent feeling of pride of their roots while also feeling disconnected from their home countries’ culture. Various people took turns discussing their home country, where they moved to, and alluded to that mixed feeling of belonging while also not belonging. One of them said they were from Ecuador and I excitedly lept up and told them that I am from there as well! As I did so my phone flew out of my hand and landed on my ground, and it was a bit awkward. Perhaps that symbolized an attempt at connection that didn’t quite land right. I decided to move to the back of the bus where I sat next to someone else. It was a young woman with strikingly beautiful eyes. She said something to me while mumbling that I didn’t quite understand. I asked her to repeat it, and she said “nevermind.” I said “no please do, it sounded important.” She clarified that was she was saying was that she is from India but it doesn’t feel like home and she doesn’t want to there go anymore. I empathized with that feeling, and I told her I haven’t gone back home in a while either, because it’s too dangerous. And for other complicated reasons. I asked her why she felt that way, was it because of social or cultural reasons? She shook her head and didn’t wish to answer. I sensed her discomfort and decided to look out the window and I was met with beautiful, hyper realistic scenery. There were peaks of white everywhere, an unfamiliar sight. It looked like we were above spikey clouds at first, they were fluffy but also dense. Then I looked closer and observed that they looked like tiny mountains. I marveled at them and pointed then out to my new acquaintance. She chuckled and said “those aren’t mountains, they are salt deposits.” I was in awe of them, I had never seen salt deposits like that before, so white and dense and tall. We then drove by a beautiful beach and I excitedly pointed out to her that we should make note of that spot because it would make a beautiful place to take pictures. She agreed. As we drove up to our lodging head quarters, I played video games with someone for a bit and we played a game I hadn’t played before. I wasn’t a fan of it because you could harm your own team in the game. I then suddenly remembered that I have hungry cats at home and was worried about who would feed them. Then I woke up.
