2 posts tagged “dream”

I awoke from a dream Saturday morning in love with a girl from my imagination.  I met her in the dream, at a party -- a lovely dark-haired girl with smiling, friendly, mischievous eyes.

I asked her name, but didn't hear her clearly and asked her to repeat.  I still didn't get it, and I asked again.  After trying three times she wrote out a cryptogram, telling me that solving it would give me a clue to her name.  I awoke while trying fumblingly to work it out, writing my solution on her belt, the spaces between her belt loops having replaced the blanks on the page she'd handed me.

There was an old man, serenely senile and vegetable, who suddenly lashed out, viciously attacking another man and killing him in a bedroom as I watched.  Then he sat back down, again placid.

There was a woman standing there, maybe a close relative of the old man.  She didn't take any particular action.

Then the old man was attacking Berkeley, and she and I fled.

I was escaping, climbing up out of a missile silo type of exit, up over the low circular wall around the opening, huddling just outside.  Berkeley followed close behind, hiding near me beside a shrub at a corner where the cylindrical silo wall met a fence or wall behind it.

She was followed closely by the old man, and I pushed him back with a sort of a plunger, jamming him down into the hole.  He fell down the shaft and died.

I turned to Berkeley, and she was only a shoe or a foot.  She was sort of giggling, like it was a joke that she'd pulled on me, fooling me into thinking she'd survived.  I was aghast and irritated with her, and I may have said something like "That's not funny."