December Daily: dreams

panisdead prompts: dreams. Any way you choose to interpret.

I've been fascinated by dreams since I was in the fourth grade. I have a fair number of flying dreams, which are wonderful, and a fair number of tedious to-do-list dreams, which are annoying. Once I dreamed I lay down and took a nap. Very restful.

A dream category I pay special attention to is one where I'm responsible for spaces, or possessions, or both -- I feel like those dreams represent my self. Sometimes I'm overjoyed to discover that I have a second kitchen I didn't know about, or a library full of comic books that I don't know anything about but suspect might be valuable. Sometimes it's a horrible burden, full of unpleasant messes that only get worse with neglect.

Not long after Dad died, I dreamed that a big storage container was brought up to the house, full of stuff from all phases of my life -- stuff from when I was a kid, ancestral stuff from my father's family (including the china that I hate and live in fear of inheriting), stuff from every relative's house I've visited. The cabinet where my favorite aunt used to keep the coloring books, the table where my war-bride aunt used to lay out tiny pies on a silver tray on a tartan cloth.

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