Another Dream

Penguin, Bala, and I are getting ready to drive. This is another dream.

Behind us, Alana and Allasand are getting into their jeep. I kind of wish I were riding with them instead of these dudes, but whatever.

We all get going, and I’m looking out the back of our vehicle at their jeep. I can barely make out their faces. I want to get their attention in this very grade school sort of way, like I have no idea what purpose it would serve or what I would do with it once I have it.

But before I can think of what to do, we drive past this housing area. Bala says something about it, and I’m all like that place is really shitty. He’s like, is it? And I’m like, well not shitty shitty, but certainly not nice. Then I start to worry I’m coming off like a snob, so I say that I’ve stayed there before—which is true. I stayed with Forsythia or Roubyn or somebody over there. Then I add that I am not judging, that I grew up on the Jung, hanging out in trailers. I recall just then that Penguin’s was one of them, and I say that he owns a trailer.

I lose sight of the girls’ jeep and feel a flash of sadness.

Penguin says, yes, that he inherited it from his mom. I ask if his brother has his own place, he says yes, that he’s good, although he’s recently joined some kind of cult. But the trailer is in a copse and the authorities want to front doze it, but he hasn’t decided what he wants to do it yet.

I ask if anyone is living in it, and he says no, it’s just sitting there empty.

We get wherever we’re going and disembark.

In the kitchen inside, Sehsan is washing dishes.

I look in a drawer and see scissors, and condoms, and markers in there. I close it, and ask Sehsan how she’s doing. She says she’s doing fine, that she is just cleaning up a bit before Mellena returns. I say something that makes her laugh, then Mellena walks in.

Mellena is much more attractive than I remember, but she’s a family friend, so I don’t really like thinking of her in that way. I say hey to her, and then tidy up the kitchen a bit.

Play procedures:

• If you’d like, try to induce a lucid dream tonight wherein you explore the world of the books. Record your findings in your journal.
• You can free associate elements from this dream. Take one image and see what it reminds you of, then what that reminds you of, and so on. Or, if you’d rather be more contained in your analysis, pick one of the two scenes, then use association within the scene, with one element compared with another.
• If there is something in the dream or your analysis of it that could help you later on, you can write it in your inventory.