Monday, December 10, 2007

Is that you????

I had a really strange dream last night. I'm not sure where exactly it came from. I was living in my last apartment, and one of my roommates who got married and moved out was there. She came in and told me that a guy I used to date was walking up to the house, and that he was there to take me out. Since it's been well, quite a while now since we've been on any kind of date I thought she must be mistaken and went and looked out the window. Sure enough, there he was, on the approach dressed in a suit. I couldn't figure out why he was there, why he thought we were going out, and why in the world he was wearing a suit. Just then he turned around and walked away again. So I was in the clear, and wandered upstairs to my bedroom. I was up there still trying to figure out what he'd even been doing on my turf when the roommate came up and said that he was at the door. I went downstairs and sure enough there he was, but suddenly he appeared to weigh a good 20 lbs. more than he did when we were dating, and additionally he had changed into red sweat pants (complete with the elastic waist band and ankles), a ratty looking In-N-Out t-shirt, which he had tucked into the sweat pants, and over the t-shirt was wearing a sweater jacket. Needless to say it wasn't really his best look. Ordinarily he's pretty attractive, not so much in the dream. I asked him what he was doing there and he said that he just wanted to drop in for a visit, he leaned over to pick up something that he dropped and that's when I spotted the embroidered name on said jacket. Since the name was "Sasha" it sort of caught my attention, and jolted me awake as well. I've been trying to decide what the point of that dream is. Is my subconcious trying to tell me that I dated a gay man? Maybe he's really trailerpark material, and I was in denial while we were dating. Doubtful though, the last time I saw him he actually looked very nice. I don't know, it's really hard to say. It doesn't seem to be a dream that is a compilation of things from throughout the day like some weird dreams. At least in the dream I wasn't the one wearing the tacky outfit with a strangers name from the opposite gender embroidered on my clothes, so it wasn't such a bad dream...just really odd.

3 comments:

Sarah said...

Funny; I had a dream last night that it was Sunday morning, and when I woke up, Jared and I decided to smoke cigars before getting ready for church. So there we were, kicked back in bed enjoying a cigar, and at some point it suddenly occurred to me, "Wait... this is against the Word of Wisdom!" And I was annoyed because I had been enjoying the cigar so much. Who knows where these things come from...

Rookie Dad said...

I had planned to leave Julie a comment about her strange dream but then I read Sarah's comment about hers, which is one I can relate to much more personally. The "sin" dream, in which you are happily engaging in some activity that you only later realize is verboten, seems laden with all sorts of psychological landmines. Not sure I want to go there.

But back to Julie: bad clothes, unkempt appearance, named Sasha? Not sure why you thought he was gay; more likely that he was simply Russian.

Julia said...

Interesting, a possibility that I had not even considered.