Dream Journal Ultimate
Date: 9/1/2020
By ace200
I was in my basement, preparing to teach my ballet class over Zoom. We were doing well when people started showing up in my basement like my friends from work, high school, and college (my high school crush was there, but I was trying to act like I’d forgotten about him). The back of my basement was walled with these enormous aquariums. They were bright blue and beautiful with lots of colors and fish. It was mesmerizing. My mom was cleaning them. I kept having to stop my dance class. When my mom was done cleaning, she suddenly asked my sister and I if we were depressed. We said we weren’t, and then she kind of fell to the floor and admitted she was, but that it was fun and we should try it. She kind of said we should also be more sensitive when being with her. It pissed me off because when my mental health was bad, she didn’t try to understand me. After my class was over, people began to leave except a girl and a boy I work with. The boy was furious at me for some reason. I don’t remember why, but I thought he was going to hurt me so I climbed into one of the aquarium tanks and sunk to the bottom. I sat in the ferns and such. I think he saw me but left. I was then going to the park with my mom and my sister, but my mom was acting weird about it. When we arrived, I understood why. It was FILLED with homeless people in tents and such. It was the saddest thing because so many of them were whole families with young children. We walked among the tents and I felt so privileged, wishing I brought them something. I asked my mom why we didn’t and she said we didn’t have enough of anything for all of them. Suddenly, the police would pull up and lights would flash and everyone would have to hide, including us. It was so scary because we could be mistaken for homeless and arrested. My grandfather and my aunt showed up as well, and we just had to keep hiding every time the police came. We saw the homeless fighting them as they were arrested. Later, I was driving at night through a heavy snow, when I came to a street with more homeless people and police. I was so scared to be driving there, and the police stopped me but they let me go.