Dream Journal Ultimate
Date: 10/28/2016
By amandalyle
Kylie, me and someone else (it may have been my friend Laura but I can't quite place the face) were walking around town, late at night. They needed to take me back to the nuthouse before it was too late (it was nearing closing hour) but I kept making excuses. "Can we go to the shop, I need some Finders crispy pancakes!" Kylie insisted we made a quick stop at Lidl. Laura had started working there and got a discount. We were walking around a building that looked like hotel or a hospital with long corridors (like a scene out of The Haunting) Was this the 'nuthouse' I resided in my dreams? Next scene; I was walking around a retail park - looking for arts and crafts for Phoebe's school project, but as we walked around the place turned into cobbled Italian -styled backstreets. I lost Alex along the way and started to panic, going around in circles and asking people if they have seen him. James Samson (from high-school) was sitting on a stoop with some other guys I didn't recognise, but he shook his head when I asked him if he had seen my son. There was also a guy in his room watching porn, but when I popped my head around the door, I was rudely told to GET OUT! Eventually, I found my son Alex and relief came flooding over me. What a fright! I was scrolling through my computer looking for happy memories of Mat and the kids. I found a picture of us in a house that looked a little bit like our house on Whitmore road. It had a huge garden and we were grouped together for a family photo. But then the neighbour interfered and said she had memories to show me too. Suddenly, I was on my hands and knees scrubbing marks off of the bathroom floor. As though a newspaper had been peeled from a wet patch leaving its remnants behind. I remember thinking "Why does this have to be so hard?" I was looking for Halloween costumes with Phoebe and her friend (Megan) trying on different wigs when her friend said she had a stomach ache and we had to go home. When we got back to the house, something didn't feel right, so I rushed upstairs to find that my slow burner had been left on (why it was in the kids bedroom, I do not know!?) and inside the slow burner was nothing but a few balls of plasticine "Dodo?" I questioned, a tear in my eye. I struggled to find the mains so I could turn it off and save the house from burning down, but when I did, I noticed a ball of knitting wool that led into the other room and down the stairs. When I followed it, it turned into a lovely knitted cardigan for Tilly (my sister in laws baby) but it was in different parts and in need of sewing together "Lesley will do it!" I thought, stepping over the knitted pieces with my muddy shoes and smiling in pleasure. Next scene; I was with my friend, Kylie, and we were having lunch at this new restaurant in town (which was once the town library) Whilst we ordered our food, there were two slightly older men trying to get our attention (by showing off) they were throwing their food over their face and being loud. One had made a mash potato beard. We laughed along and, in the end, moved tables to be with them. As it turned out, one of the guys wasn't such a joker and looked after his two disabled sons on his own (I didn't ask what happened to the mother) but then I had a vision of him wrapping the kids up in a large Persian-styled carpet and sticking them in the back of car "That's how they like to sleep!" He grinned, but I felt a bit unsettled. "But won't they get overheated?" I wanted to ask, but instead, remained silent. The next thing I knew, I was sat at a different table with two girls who worked at the restaurant dressed in purple tabards . The guys had made a disappearing act and we made awkward conversation with them. Only when I turned around to talk to Kylie, my mother-in-law was now in her place. "X factor was terrible last week!" One of the ladies exclaimed. And then we were transported to the live audience to witness what I could only describe as prostitutes bumping, grinding and lip syncing. The grand finale featured a slightly overweight Chloe Ferry (from Geordie Shore) being lifted over a guy's head (a la dirty dancing style!) but all I could see was her camels toe which looked more like a camels ENTIRE foot... "Chloe Ferry a man... who would have thought it?" I pondered. Next scene; My mother-in-law and me were walking down a dusty backroad, when Mat appeared and she whispered "I think we should talk about money!" I said that I would leave them to it, hoping my mother-in-law would walk into town with her son, but instead she said she would come home with me "For fuck sake!" I thought. "I just want to smoke my lungs black!"