Dreams 8/2

 The dreaming began with a cloth bound book missing its dust jacket. It was purple and had an old woman in an apron embossed in sparkling turquoise. She might've been a witch. She seemed to be dancing, her apron was caught up in the breeze. Beneath her two children crouched by a washtub. They looked Dutch by their wooden clogs. The girl had long braided pigtails. It might've been a book of fairy tales. 

  In the following dream I was in a cafeteria eating lunch with my friend, Rick. There was a dance coming up, and Rick seemed too thick to realize I wanted him to take me. Later, after the dance, we were leaving, and my grade school friend, Karen, was at the door. She wanted to talk to Rick who was disinterested. 

  The third dream began with me packing for a hiking trip. My backpack was very heavy, and I moved like a turtle due to the two hardback books, one my gigantic college Shakespeare book. I was wearing Mummy's thick brown parka. I'd gotten to an Asian woman's apartment where I opted to leave the Shakespeare and switch to her much lighter leather vest that was loaded with little zippered pockets up the sides. I slipped some pot into the bottom pocket on the left. She didn't seem very happy about the lending. I think her husband was going on the field trip with us. He looked very much like that count in France who murdered his entire family and skipped the country. He wore rose or amber colored sunglases, not sure which, they seemed to change. When I got on the bus it was already very crowded, the black pleather seats were mostly taken. My Aunt Judy was there, a woman in a tan jacket sat beside her. The spot next to my highschool English teacher, Chris, was free, but she had a little black satchel there. She smiled uncomfortably. I sat down adjacent to Aunt Judy and was chatting with her when I woke. 

Dreams 6/11

 I dreamed that I was staying in an old bed and breakfast with a fabulous old wooden staircase. There were red carpets and antiques. My aunts Judy and Nancy were there as well as my friend Susan and Emily Gilmore from Gilmore Girls, I think she owned the place. First thing I recall I was sleeping in my big quilted bed with a cat. A scroungy looking black mouse with three embroidered red hearts on his rump scurried up to the foot of my bed, and the cat got him, but dropped him. I screamed, and Emily came running. I was further upset when she told me that I could not take a shower. Then, I was sitting at a little round covered table with Aunt Nancy and Susan. Aunt Nancy gave me a gift. When I opened it first thing I saw was a pewter wizard with a staff sitting atop a jewel, but then he changed into a little doll with white yarn hair in a red and white striped dress holding another smaller doll on her lap. Finally she changed into a plastic dark haired doll with pigtails and green sleep eyes. Susan thought she looked like me. Last thing I remember I was taking my doll up the stairs.