5 May 2024
Dream
I dreamt that I was working at the market in my hometown, cleaning out the display freezers while looking for a gold ring that had been lost in there. I was finding various other pieces of jewelry, but none of them were the missing pieces to the gold and ruby ring had partially found, but was still looking for. At some point, a group of six boys walked in and sat at a table. I went to take their order, starting with the youngerst one who looked to be about 12 and a few years younger than the rest. He ordered a PB&J, and one by ine, each of the other boys ordered the same. I got back to the youngest boy and asked him what he would like as a side. He said potato wedges and I continued asking the other boys what they would like, each of them saying the same. I got to the fourth boy, and he seemed to be in a bad mood. He angrily told me he didn’t want a side and stormed off, away from the table. I went to find bread for the sandwiches and came across an old woman, eating bread from the dumpster. I knew I couldn’t use the bread I had found there, and went to look for more in the market when I came upon the boys’ mother and her two young daughters. She looked frightened and told me that I should come to church with them sometime. I asked he were they went to church, and she couldn’t tell me. She then proceeded to mutter something into a book which I recognized. I noticed the illustration on the page she was muttering to, which was Posiden with his trident, standing on top of the sea as he commanded a storm. I mentioned that I had the same book, and she snapped back that her book was different. When she had finished muttering to the book, she began to tear strips from it, starting at the top of the book. She began to leave in a rushed manner, and I thanked her for caring about my soul. The boys all followed her and the two little girls out of the store, and I realized I had encountered them before, I just hadn’t recognized them this time because a long time had passed since they were last in.
I skipped to a large house, built on the face of a cliff. The wind began ti pick up to an alarming rate and the house began swaying. I understood that the woman must have foreseen this, and quickly began gathering my most cherished belongings. As the house began to topple over, I quickly opened the door and my cats both ran outside. My dog, Marley, was afraid and didn’t want to go, so I grabbed her by the collar and forced her outside to safety. I dropped th bag of items I had and saw that the house still wasn’t completely gone, so I ran back inside to get some more of my things, among them, my drills and some other tools of my trade. This time as I ran from upstairs, the house began to tip so badly that it started to break apart. I slid down the tilted wall and escaped the house in the knick of time. I was outside now with my pets, and a flood began. I understood that this must have been what the woman at the market had been afraid of and was trying to save me from, so I got my animals and a bag of my things that included drinking water and began to move them to higher ground. Water was cascading all around us as we walked uphill, and that’s when I woke up.
