lastnite: a dream journal

High school flashbacks and Scooby Doo bleedthrough

Again, I'm writing from notes scribbled in the middle of the night. This time, instead of filling up the back of a receipt, I nearly filled up a spiral notebook page.

Mom and I were going to my old high school. In the parking lot, there was an ice skater darting between cars. Mom said, "She's talented; you should ask her--" She skated in front of our car and nearly killed all of us. We saw a parked cop car. Mom said, "I hate to ask an off-duty policeman," but he left before she could complain. We headed towards the building. The power had gone out and as we walked in, it came back on. The library was locked, so, since we couldn't get in there, we walked around the commons area. We kept bumping into people I knew from then. No one else's mom was there. Zach said, "Hey, Jen," and Mom whispered, "Follow through," code for continue the conversation with him. I told her, "Ease," meaning for her to stop nagging. Most people were eating. I found Amber's credit card (Amber was a girl I went to high school with, but the Amber whose credit card I found is really the mother of one of our preschool students) and said I would return it to her, as I would see her later. I picked up two keychains. Then we walked outside. Mom said, "I forgot I had to buy you strawberries." I told her that "I would have asked for them if I really wanted them." Then she bought me two prescriptions, four CDs, and lunch. In the parking lot now were two white Corvettes and Howard's car. I woke up to one of the Scooby Doo Mysteries, sleeping as always with Cartoon Network on, as they were talking about racecars.

I dreamt Grandpa had two new calves, both bulls, one had the beginnings of horns on his snout. I could the bone beginning to form under the skin like new teeth. The calf was trying to bite me. Grandpa told me that he had traded that "yappy dog" (perhaps a bleedthrough from the Scooby Doo meets Courage the Cowardly Dog commercial on Cartoon Network), one of the calves, and his "son" on a treadmill for cash. The "son," a transient Grandpa had picked up somewhere for odd ranching jobs, said, "Oh, you've found another son?"