September 29, 2004

Recurring themes of my dreams for the last few months:

I'm in my hometown for some reason, usually around Olive Street; sometimes down by the bridges over the storm drains, sometimes up in the hills by Castaway.

I'm a student at school, either jr. high or high school, but I'm my current age. Either I'm in a class and completely falling behind (French, English and Science are the three classes I dream of most), or else I'm going back to school because it turned out I didn't complete one class I needed to graduate so I have to go back and repeat that entire year of school. While at school, I usually have problems finding my locker or remembering the combination.

I often dream of working at the Disney Store, like I've gone back to work there part time. (In real life I haven't worked there since 1992.)

I'm at my Mom's house and there's either a storm or a fire and there are always some sort of animals in the house or yard - cats, dog, and last night it was a horse in the backyard.

Water. Water always shows up somewhere, like it's raining, or I'm on a boat, or I'm on a train crossing a river. Last night I was trapped in a box car full of water with only a small amount of breathing room at the top of the car. Out the window I saw a Toy's R Us Geoffrey giraffe statue that had been thrown into a storm drain and I thought to myself, "I have to call the state to tell them I saw the statue in the water so they can go pull it out." (Two examples of drowning in water, no?)

Traveling, like driving, usually on or around Route 7.

I have some issues, obviously, but what are they? What does it all mean? Storms, water, drowning, driving, old neighborhood, newer neighborhood, animals, school, failure at school, going back to my old job.

And what that has to do with the dream I had the night before last about hanging out with Lindsay Lohan and her boyfriend, is beyond me. Or how it all tied in to the super spy part of my dream last night - I was working for the CIA, I think, and I was caught, and trying to get out of it. (That's when I was trapped in the box car by my captors!)

that was then - this is now