6/21/17 I Feel Like I Haven’t Slept
(sorry in advance if constantly changing tenses annoys you :p)
I decided today was the day I was actually going to apply for a job at Family Dollar. I waited until my mom returned to work from her lunch break, but before she returned home when her shift was over. That gave me a window of 12-2 pm to return home. When she comes home, she parks the truck in the driveway which blocks the garage where the car is, which I need because it has my resume in it. After she leaves, I hop on my bike and start heading down.
The bike is too small for me, and it is a very awkward ride. most of the time I just sat on the seat and pushed on the ground because I was too scared to stand up and pedal. I am very afraid of the traffic but I decided to ride in the middle of the street anyway, with cars swerving into the next lane so they do not hit me. I can see up ahead that there is construction on the bridge so the sidewalk is closed, so I switched to the other side of the street. The sidewalk was closed on that side too. The whole bridge was closed. On this side of the road, there was a group of children, probably middle school age. They were right up next to the construction crew. The crew had some cones pressed deep in cement. There was a big crash and the tip of the cone came flying down and hit my bike. We all laughed. It turned out the construction crew was trying to blow holes in all of the cones.
The cement on the sidewalk changed into dirt if you went far enough. from this dirt, there was a path about the width of a bike tire that you could go on. I heard the sound of prepubescent boys and, since the path looked wide enough for one, I move very slowly and they would all be right behind me soon, and they intimidate me, I decided to wait for them so they could go first. There were three of them, all riding scooters and doing tricks off of a building as they went down the path.
I followed them down the path and was met with the under construction bridge. There was a group of 3 boys on scooters and two girls on bikes there now. I asked them if they knew how to get around the bridge but none of them knew. One of the girls, a short Hispanic girl, kept getting distracted by fish. I pointed down at a little puddle. There I saw a baby fish. All the children gathered around. The boy pointed out a bigger orange fish, I pointed out more babies, and this went on for a very long time. In the end there were two medium sized orange gold fish and about five brown baby fish. I looked up from the puddle. There were only two children left, a boy and the Hispanic girl. I asked where the others went and they did not know.
Then the children started leaving. I followed them to an abandoned building. I peeked inside the door and noticed it was full of other little kids playing with dolls and stuff. I noticed one of my little sisters friends, 18 year old Celeste, in the building. I thought it would be very creepy if I, a 20 year old, was in an abandoned building with a bunch of kids so I decided to leave. I made eye contact with Celeste as I was leaving. She took this as the opportunity to make silly faces at every window I passed. I was in the buildings hallway now, so there were a lot of windows.
When I finally got out of the building, Celeste was dressed in a gorgeous purple gown. It was frilly, layered, and had a slash down its side (sorry I have no idea how to describe dresses). Her makeup was all white. Her entire head was all white. no hair at all. She had painted on pointy, thin, expressive eyebrows and had on winged eyeliner. There was a block dot drawn on her nose. She made more faces at me at every window I passed. This was even funnier. I decided to go in and check it out.
She was an old woman now, somewhere in her 40s, and the leader of the show. There was an old , plaid couch in the room that I took a seat on. In front of me was a very light colored wooden tv stand with some nick knacks and one of those old fat tvs on it. Behind this was a shelf that looked exactly the same with the same set up. In front of me unfolded a spectacular show with the woman as lead. I do not remember what kind of show. She had a light saber and started fighting off a demon with it as sono chi no sadame was playing loudly in the background. I was sat at home on my mom’s bed watching this on the tv. I tried desperately to fall back asleep as I was in love with the dream, but the show on tv was too interesting. I called my sister over to watch but she never came. I opened up new tabs on my laptop and started writing down what was happening so that I would not forget by the time the dream was over and I could capture it all in a Tumblr post. I was back in the audience. Kanye West appeared in front of me wearing 3 chokers. I found this hilarious for some reason and had to write it down on my laptop. I wondered if any of this could actually count as part of my dream since I kept waking up and since it was actually going on on tv and I was just copying it from there. I forgot about all that though when they started singing Mermaid Festa.
Then I woke up, more tired than ever.
I remember in the dream there was a huge emphasis put on the woman’s name, and I kept repeating it so that I would not forget it. Needless to say I forgot anyway.
I never actually woke up in the dream, that was all part of the dream that I woke up.
IRL the bridge is way after family dollar, and this was probably a sign that I should get my lazy butt up and go apply.