Covid Building Displacements

Date: 4/14/2020

The dream started off by me going to the deli near my house after I bought some Chinese food and bought my new sneakers. My deli was in a new place because of the coronavirus. The coronavirus made people not afford where their business and buildings were currently at, so they had to move them. I bought a sandwich from the deli and accidentally gave him an extra dollar. The deli guy didn’t want to give me my dollar back and and instead told me that when I come back, just as for his name and he’ll give me anything I want that costs a dollar. I was pretty angry but I acted like I was happy and moved along with it. Then as I started going to my house, I realized the entire block has changed. Some buildings were pushed to the left, some new buildings were added, my bodega was inside of a building, and my building was gone. I called my dad to know where my building was but he never responded. It was night time by the way. I asked my neighbor as I saw her walking down the street and asked her where the house was. She said that she’s going to the Joker staircase and she’ll take me there. As she took me to the house it suddenly turned day but I never noticed that detail until I woke up from this dream. Also there were buildings being moved around by trucks, like on a platform and the buildings were just being moved around to new areas. In the dream, I was used to it. The area that my building was around was on 170th street and 3rd avenue in the Bronx, but it looked super wealthy like 61st Street in Manhattan. I was so excited to live in a nice area. Then I saw my cousin Jamie walking, and she was walking in the sarcastically diva, famous person way so I immediately recognized her. She came out my dads car and I said “Why didn’t you pick up my calls”. He never responded to my question. He came out of his car with a bunch of grocery bags like he always does, and we walked to my new building. My sister was also there. My sister accidentally walked into this super fancy building with a red carpet and thought it was our new building. She even took off her shoes and ran. I told her that that’s not our building until she finally heard me and followed me to our actual building. To my surprise, my building wasn’t the same. It was a completely new, ugly, and creepy building. My old building has chandeliers and carpets and it was bright in the lobby and it looked pretty. This new building was run down, and dark and looked very creepy. It was a brick building and looked ghetto, while every other building around that area was super fancy like the ones in Manhattan. So I was sad because I had bad luck. As we walked to the elevator, my cousin and dad turned to the side in this ninja pose. I was super confused. Then when the elevator opened they stayed at the sides until someone came out. I was super confused. I asked them why they were doing this and my dad said that there are pedophiles in my building. As an addition to having a ghetto and ugly building, my building was also dangerous and I had brand new, limited shoes with me. “Great” i thought sarcastically in my head. As the elevator doors closed I noticed my little sister wasn’t with me, so I asked “Where’s Mia” and my dad looked very scared. We heard her talking in the lobby with these guys that sounded like my cousins, but we weren’t sure. We called out her name and she ran into the elevator, laughing. Then the dream ended.