Date: 12/29/2021
By Bito
The dream's setting was mixture/flurry of familiar places. Past homes and schools. It started in my childhood home. I remember seeing many holes and dents in the walls. I was fixing it, filling up the holes and painting the walls. In this dream, my girlfriend was Jennifer Lawrence and she was very sick. Enough for me to be concerned but I didn't feel that way. Her condition was horrible but I was strangely optimistic. I'd keep her company in the other room where she was bedridden, but she had a tendancy to fall asleep often for hours or days. I don't think the dream actually took that long but I knew or had false memories of this situation. For example I remembered a time where I was bedridden and JL was also taking care of me. I only had the memory. It definitely didn't actually happen in this dream. Anyway, I needed supplies from another room to finish remodeling. When I walked out into the living room, there were people I didn't recognize dressed in safari clothes. There was a man and woman around a couple children. The Safari pair, man and woman, had a live elephant in my living room. They were letting the kids pet it and telling them "cool facts about elephants". I just stared, looking at the beast. It had spots on its head like a cheetah and more than a dozen scars at the top of its trunk near the eyes. I approached and was immediately cautioned by the woman. She goes off, telling me how elephants like to challenge people/animals they see as threatening. I wasn't scared, afterall it seemed ok with the children being so close to it. Looking back at the scars, I thought why risk it so I left. I ended up in my old high school but I don't remember the journey. One moment I left my old apartment, holding a show and tell with creepy elephants, and the next moment I'm in my high school library. My sister was there. She asked me to check out a book for her and I went up to the front desk. When I came up to the desk, a huge line formed behind me. I remember a few of these rowdy high school girls behind me arguing about a name written in a brochure that was lying by the front desk. I looked over to see the name they were so passionately yelling about. At first, it just looked like a unique name, something I've never seen before. It was long and confusing so I don't remember. Suddenly, the words on the brochure change just as I looked away, and when I looked back the name had symbols and Greek letters with romanization underneath. I was so confused but I didn't get the time to question it. In that moment, I was called up by the librarian to check out. The guy was chatty but seemed normal. He put a machine in front of me, which scans my fingerprints so that I could check out the book. I made a remark on how it's a little bit weird but quick. Then the librarian starts going on and on about data transfer speeds and cables. I didn't want to be rude so I just listened. I knew what he was talking about but there were so many words he used that I didn't understand. Like they weren't English. I returned a few words and he looks at me the same way I might've been looking at him. It was time for me to leave I thought so I took the book and headed out. Just before that, I noticed I had a gold wedding ring in my hand so I left it with the librarian before I got out of there. He somewhat chased me down but I picked up the pace to avoid getting sucked back into his conversation. I lost him as I ran down a few flights of stairs when I began hearing voices from the floors below. Oddly enough I knew who the voice belong to. It was an old co-worker from a few years back. Seeing as I just went through an unwanted conversation I didn't want to hop into another one so I avoided that floor. Suddenly, I made it back to my sick JL, who was looking worse. She wakes up as I enter and asked how long it's been (asleep). Jokingly I say it's been a couple days again but stopped jesting as I saw her face turn cold and concerned. I tell her it's probably only been an hour or two max. I go in to kiss her and got hit with a crazy smell. The phantom memory of how when I was sick returned. I remembered when I was bedridden for days, unable to shower, JL was still nice about it. She then asked if she smelled bad. I didn't want to hurt her feelings so I tell her I didn't care and that I'll cuddle with her after I grab some blankets. Her butt was out a little so I gave her a light spank before going to grab the blankets. This was notable because she jolted a bit but her reaction to my hand was super delayed. I didn't think anything of it. Just as I grab the blankets, I woke up.