Celeste

Date: 4/30/2019

This dream takes place in the winter. It appears to be around the holidays. It is dark and raining. I go visit my friend Celeste whom I have not seen for years. She looks really well although she acts as though she is intoxicated. I find out she is taking pain killers. Because of back problems. Her husband has died. Her children are still young (the ages they would have been 25 years ago). The little one needs to wear a contraption that looks like a harness to be able to walk. It is almost as though he was a marionette. This is the kid that I liked the most. I tell Celeste that he used to play with my ginger cats when he visited and even my unfriendly cat liked him.Celeste takes me down a couple of floors from her apartment. The offices of the faculty of a college are there, she wants me to talk to them about getting a job as a professor. They are in the process of closing because of the holidays. We find my mother who seems to be shopping and tells Celeste she looks like she is seventy years old but Celeste knows my mother. Celeste gives me literature on how to deal with my mother (there are a lot of papers which I don’t think I can carry around). We also talk about her apartment with Jersey City and how there is a woman psychiatrist living there and the apartment has been always occupied by a psychiatrist. I still want to buy it. When I get back to her apartment Celeste tells me that is time to leave. She gives me some clothing as a present. I ask her for a shopping bag because I cannot take it all in my hands. I also need to get my boss’s nova record that is behind the bed where her older kid is sleeping. For a minute I think I cannot get it but I do. Celeste is acting more and more intoxicated. I don’t know where to get the bus and she gives me vague directions. I leave thinking that I have missed my last appointment with Dr. Sloan and I don’t know if he will see me for my next appointment which is on December 31.