I used to dream I had travelled in time. Now I place head on pillow and this happens:
It's difficult to get a narrative of this first one. A bramble bush is also the highways of the land and the hallways of a hotel. I'm staying there with various other people, and I learn that Kay and Jay are booked in as well. In real life we've fallen out of touch, an inevitable result of the distance and their (well, K's) later-than-usual spring into parenthood. I decide I must look them up.
For some reason, we're all booked into a session with a glib motivational speaker who wears a Hawaiian shirt, the sort of asshat at whom I'd normally laugh.
In the second dream, someone kidnaps my cat and arranges a meeting. We're in some alternate universe version of Postman's Park. We must meet in the tunnels, and I'm given a choice of two entrances. I'm warned that at one I'll face a fire, and at the other, a beautiful woman. It's sort of the tiger and the girl riddle.
I'm not certain if I'm supposed to be tempted by the girl, or think that she's a trap and go the other way, or..... So I take that entrance. She's a tough-looking kid, and she ushders me to where the others gather. They look like internet trolls. I eventually get the cat back, and we end up in a lobby discussing why they're doing any of this, because it seems so pointless, and they didn't even get any money or blackmail information on me. I think they were seeking blackmail information. An eager young member, a socially clueless university student, explains how their plot sometimes nets them money and when it does, it nets them big. I'm just one of the "causalities of their methods". Nothing he says makes any rational sense. A woman, possibly the girl from the beginning, talks to me about the situation and seems kind of nice, but I don't trust any of them, and I leave with my cat.
In the third subconscious drama, I'm driving with Dee's mother through an industrial landscape filled with warehouses and factories and abandoned motels. We turn into her subdivision, where the routes have names like "Swear Street" and "The Young and the Restless Boulevard."
I bring my cat into Missus Dee's house, which has many felines. She punishes them for arbitrary reasons by removing some of their food from the dish. I do not like this. She's also garrulous in a way her real-world equivalent isn't, and she talks about all manner of things. She notes how much she loves Xena, Warrior Princess, but never mentions this to her art class because they're all so homophobic.
I frequently have to go to the washroom, and so does Dee, once Dee arrives. However, we must use kiddie potty seats placed out in the open. I do not like this, and the final time, they're out of toilet paper. She explains that I have to go out to the communal bathroom around the corner if I desire privacy or wipe.
Morning comes.