6 Sep 2024
Dream
Some kind of family reunion near or at a theme park. Even tho I didn’t recognize anyone but Peter. While there, I also was messaging Kim, accidentally from my sister’s phone. I remember thinking this was odd because wouldn’t she ask me, her best friend, and not my sister to help her find something? I was surprised to go out side and see Kim there with her mother. There were reflective bluish windows on the building, reflecting our appearances back to us briefly as we walked. Her mom was overweight and with short hair. Kim looked stressed to be with her. My mom and I had gotten there earlier and lost our parking pass, and had dug through pink soft sand at the front by the wall where we may have dropped it. Kim and her mom were Looking for a parking pass. We went digging in some soft pink sand near the entrance wall and after a while we did find it and they were so relieved. They had noticed that my mom and I had already been digging and there was traces of us digging in the same area and I explained and when I went back down to dig through the soft sand my I nudged a piece of plastic and came up with the laminated ticket and I was so happy and relieved. After that I broke away from Kim and returned with my family to take a family reunion picture in a building on the right. I was in a sour mood for some reason, but my brother was there and Peter was keeping me in a decent mood. He also gave the photographer a hard time, and she seemed to be a little unprofessional or unprepared, but nice enough. He even insulted the picture she took. When I was holding things and they asked me to put them down, I threw them to the side, rather peddly, and then I even felt a little bad because one of the items I was holding wasn't mine. After the pictures, we all left to the building on the left, a very similar structure, and went inside to like mingle and stuff. We noticed these weird hopping animals as we went inside and they said that they were aardvarks but in my head even in the dream I knew that they were some fantasy animal but we'll call them aardvarks. They were orange-ish, about knee-to-waist height, with long necks and curled, dulled claws on their hands. And their necks didn't move the way a duck neck would. They moved like snakes, flicking and stuff. It was unnerving, but they were kind of cute and just seemed curious. One of them tried to get inside, hopping and clawing at the door. And I was joking at first, holding the door closed and telling my family about it, but the aardvark got more aggressive and insistent and it wouldn't give up and I kept holding the door and it was getting harder to hold the door closed from it. The door started to bend at the top and its claws came through and its neck and it was trying to come in, getting closer. Eventually, right before I woke up, I lost my grip on the door and the aardvark burst inside at my feet. I remember trying to nudge it with my foot and how odd it felt against my ankle and me being worried that it was going to bite me or something. Earlier in the dream there was something vague about wandering and trying to get to a destination urgently and yet feeling lost at some kind of convention in a dark building. There were other people there, but I can't remember much of the details. I know that there was a nice but busy priest nearby. I know that I think I was trying to get back to my mom or my family. I know that there was an odd bit about the parrot, Iago from Aladdin, and Sour Patch Kids with some kind of factory where they would squeeze through these child-sized holes. And the Sour Patch Kids were child-sized and also alive and had the voices of children and I remember feeling very anxious about that moment because it was almost like it was foreshadowing what if that happened to a real child and would they survive the candy factory and probably not because it would squish them or hurt them or something.
