A Crazy Cab Ride
4 Jan 2020
My night was actually more eventful than that. But before I start on the dream, I just want to record some observations and thoughts.
I realise I tend to wake up on weekend nights. Only weekend nights. But it’s not like my sleep was disrupted, my awake moments were probably less than a minute long. I wake up, think about what I dreamt about for a while, turn around and fall back asleep, again, within the duration of “one sheep jump over the fence”.
Maybe it’s because I’ve started recording my dreams that I’m paying extra attention to it, but now I realise, I have more dreams than I thought I did. I can’t remember the content but I was definitely dreaming throughout the night. And I am very sure the dream I’m about to share, despite its length, is only the final dream I had.
Why do we forget dreams so easily?
Anyway, my dream began with my whole family going to town together with my visiting aunt. Probably inspired by the fact that my cousin’s family just visited recently.
For some reason I went out in my home clothing - green army T-shirt and elephant pants I got from V - the actual PJs I was wearing. Before leaving for town I had a weird moment at home, where all of us were watching TV and my aunt admired how pretty I am out of the blue. I think that gave me the confidence to just go out in my PJs. *shrugs* But of course after I got out I started feeling self-conscious and uncomfortable. I believe this type of dream is pretty common - going out in PJs, or suddenly being naked in public.
It was night time when we got to town. We were there for a show, which was held at an area I did not recognise. I remember my dad parking the car outside some high-class looking theatre and we went into a building. But somehow the next scene was us walking upslope a sandy path. The path was inclined and the slope was so steep that I was on all-fours. And I got criticised by my mum for being so ungraceful, unlike Grace who was walking in front dressed like a Victorian maiden. (I only named her cos her name was so fitting)
When we were there it was pretty high up and the scenery was pretty nice, so I tried to take a picture. But my phone failed me somehow, I just couldn’t get the camera settings right. Frustrated, I gave up and watched the scenery. I remember being sad for a moment, thinking how I’ve got no one to talk to and share certain things with in this world. Like there’s nobody who shared the exact same interests as me. I distinctly remember thinking I got no one to share the excitment for 爱情公寓5 and got all upset. I think it was this moment that made me wake up feeling lonely. Maybe remembering dreams might not be such a good idea if my emotions carry forward like this. Or did I already sub-consciously feel lonely before sleeping? 🤔
We were then greeted by some family friends, I recognised most of them, they were my parents’ old friends and their whole family. I went to greet them, and they asked for their tickets to the show which apparently was bought by my dad. I went to get the tickets from my dad (idk why they won’t hang together, he was some distance away), and he asked me to collect $13400 from them for the tickets. I was like WTF why is it so expensive. Idk when my dad got rich bc he shrugged the amount off like it was no big deal. I got mad and made my mum return my ticket and I went home.
By the time I got out of the show area, I was carrying luggages all of a sudden. So I thought I’d hail a cab. I flagged one off the street immediately and it was a young PRC Chinese guy driving. His taxi was... tiny. Almost like a toy. The trunk could fit my small luggage exactly and that’s it. He had a foldable backseat on which he asked me to sit. It felt reeeaaaallllyyyyy dangerous.
We drove into an area that’s having a carnival, and it was so brightly lit that it looked like day time. I tried to take a photo with my phone to share with my family but it failed me again. Had troubles with the camera, then had trouble typing too. In the end I just sent over a bad photo with some gibberish captions. Then I realise the taxi has been going around in circles. I asked and the driver finally admitted he doesn’t know the way. I tried to navigate for him only to realise all the apps in my phone were messed up. Google Maps and Google app were nowhere to be found.
We stopped and he found his wife to fix my phone. She made a call on her landline and made me make some weird sounds to the phone. I eventually got suspicious of the couple and tried to leave, and that’s when I woke up.
I woke up reaaally tired. You should be able to imagine... 😑