Dream Post #1

Although I said I don't dream much anymore, ironically, I had one.

I was in a mall...or a place like Target...with a friend of mine. The place was dark and gloomy. The mall was the same one I entered in my dreams months before. I saw a guy from my dorm dressed up, looking like he was heading somewhere important. We got a bunch of stuff we needed and went to the cash register. For some reason I could check my bank account balance at the register. I did so to make sure I could afford the stuff I got. If I didn't, I said I would put everything back. I had 89 cents on my card, but Kayla came by and let me borrow her credit card. I asked her if it was ok, but she insisted.

The dream switched to one guy and me at an abandoned train station. There were vines growing and there was no roof. A man was trying to kill me until the guy of the couple came by and pushed him away. He told me the only way I could protect myself from spirits like that was to wear a head scarf or a hat like his girlfriend and the guy I was with. I pulled out my monkey-faced head scarf. While I was putting it on, the girl complimented me on it.

The train finally came and the couple was nowhere to be seen, but the guy was still with me. We boarded the train and there was no one in sight. I felt a little nervous. The guy was holding on to the rail above his head wondering if he should hug me or not, seeing my face. He looked around him and said "No one's hear anyway" and held me. I couldn't tell if he was taller or shorter than me. In the train, he seemed taller, but outside the train, he seemed shorter. The way he held me was like there was nothing else to matter outside that train, but it did seem like we had a place to go.

We got off the train and we saw the couple again. They were heading past the brick stairs in front of them. We were heading to the lake on the right. We knew there was a bridge that led up to it from the brick stairs...when we got to it, there was no way we could reach it. We could't jump or anything. The bridge connected to a circular alter in the middle of the lake, so there was no other way to go around.

We were shocked, but continued walking along the brick stairs, not saying anything.

There was an elderly man on the stairs shouting and complaining that his name wasn't engraved on the bricks for his hard work. I looked back at the steps as we walked past them and there was no name whatsoever. The hard work he spoke of? It was the park up ahead.

There was a forest with trees at least a fourth of a mile high. The trees grew healthily and there were slides built around them. For some reason I could tell Japan built the slides. many people were in the park, being happy. The guy and I were happy too, but for a different reason. We loved each other. We hadn't said a word after getting off the train.

After passing the brick steps, still looking for a way to get to the lake, I saw my relatives from my mom's side. Mostly women, all with kids ages 5 and up. My younger sister was there too, wearing a leopard-print dress holding a baby and a toddler at her legs. My father and my brother weren't there. There was no mention of them. My grandmother came up to me and thanked me for making the park possible. What did I do? I had no recollection of ever working on it. I did remember the forest was just a forest the last time I visited it in my dreams...

The guy and I kept walking. I didn't know whether we'd reach our destination, but I knew we were content with just walking, holding each other.