Inconvenient Wedding

Date: 5/5/2018

The dream started off with a girl and I sneaking into a closed store of some kind. Everything was pitch black except for the computer monitors that were left on. In the glow of the monitors we started kissing gently and she giggled at the thought of us finding a secret getaway. But we were not alone. Suddenly, we heard voices slithering down the hall, so i stumbled into a nearby closet and told her to remain quiet. The silence that followed was intense. She was breathing erratically and I was trying to keep calm. Coats and jackets covered my shoulders as I slid back into the clothed wall behind me. Without warning I could feel the firm grasp of hands upon my shoulder, so I told the girl to run. I was pulled into the darkness...then a friend of mine showed up and turned the lights on. After we left the store, i realized that I had a late night delivery to give to someone, but didn’t know who it was for or where to take it. I shrugged and moved on. The scene changed and the three of us (the friend, the girl, and I) sat at a table on a street with a trolley car. There were kids playing there and I looked across the street at this beautiful woman talking to a not so handsome man. I smiled and said that they looked cute together. The girl leaned across the table at me and said “she’s not his adventure”. I woke up and wrote the dream down on a notebook, but when I fell back asleep my dreams took a tragic turn. I was being forced into marriage...with a different girl. I never saw the girl in the dream, but I knew I was married. I had no ring on my finger or certificate, but I showed my friend the empty places where bird cages used to be. The grandfather of the bride forced us into marriage, and held it outside in the dirtiest part of town to reflect what he thought of us. Everyone was covered in dirt, dust and bird feces. I don’t remember anything else except the hope that I never got this girl pregnant. An overwhelming feeling of sadness overcame me as I realized that the reason I was forced into this marriage was because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but could not remember what happened... I woke up sad this morning trying to understand what happened. I remembered so much from last night, yet I was never lucid. Would I have made better decisions in the dreams if I were?