Aug 1st - Dream

So on August first, I had this really weird dream. Now normally I don’t remember my dreams much past 2-3 minutes of waking up. i.e. about the time I brush my teeth is about the time I totally forget about my dreams from the night before. Also I don’t dream a lot, like sometimes It might be a week or two between dreams, so when I had this very strange and in depth dream that night, I woke up around 2 am and made a whole bunch of notes about the dream so I could remember it later.


So now I begin the task of organizing this into something that flows more coherently and is more grammatically correct than what my mind could piece together that night. I had hoped to get around to doing this the day after, but it got delayed (c’est la vie). However my original notes I typed up that night were over 1,000 words long (that gives a hint as to how interesting/bizarre this dream was to me), so I just have to smooth out the thought process a little bit.



So in the dream I’m working at a hotel in England, and the staff and I are trying to keep the hotel up to date and within standards guidelines on everything, as we know that an inspection will be coming up shortly. The Hotel defiantly has this weird feel to it, the interior design scheme is what I can best describe as Guilded Age (1880’s) British crossed with an American Western design feel.

Well anyway, low and behold our inspector shows up and begins the inspection that has us all nervous, as we are training a new executive housekeeper (though everything does already look nicer than before she started in her position) and have to teach her how everything needs to be done correctly. During the inspection the inspector finds two places to mark us down on. 1. Is that in one of the back offices (which I might add look strange in a Guilded Age / American Western hotel :P ) there was some foam underneath a shelf that was rotten/damaged. The other area was some issues involving the desk and cleaning staff not following instructions properly.

Also I need to note that somehow during the dream I was getting these like random documentary flash backs to how perfect a society the UK had become (no crime / major disease) It had become the utopian symbol of the modern world so to speak. It didn't seem weird I was getting this info just randomly inserted into the dream as if I was watching a television show, with the dream pausing for me to become more fully informed of the background of this dream world.

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Anyway here is where the dream gets interesting, and I even felt like I had some control over my actions at the end of this part, not quite lucid dreaming but possibly something close like I had power in the choices I was making in the dream and aware of it and the consequences,,



I apparently bought a football (American) card off of craigslist.

So the first time I visit the guy with the card to look at it, I offer him 20 dollars, American (which seems weird at the time being we were in the UK but it was a dream right?)

So I visit him the next day to complete the transaction and I pull out my $20 dollar bill but he won't take it and says we have to do it online.

Now this online transaction was strange, the screen was purple background with just plain black lettering and he had to send me a code and then I would enter a phrase back and it would complete a $5 transaction, we had to do it in $5 amounts, I have no idea why it had to be done this way but I didn't question it in the dream.

Anyway by like the 2nd time through it I have the reply code busted/cracked and tell him how it is easy to figure out, he shrugs it off but I get the feeling he is irritated. Also during this he sends me back to my car for something (can't remember what it is, just that I did it)

He is walking around the room all this time acting like he is tidying up (his place is kind of messy) when I get up to get the card after completing the 4 transactions of $5 each and go to leave walking towards the door. However, as I'm leaving he pulls out a revolver and demands I leave without taking the card, and giving him the 20 dollars in cash I had because, "he should never sell Sweatness for anything less than $180). It is at this point I first know what card I had bought, apparently a Walter Payton card (he was nicked named "Sweetness" for those out of the sports loop, he played running back for the famous Chicago Bear's teams in the 80's and died about 5 years ago due to liver problems. Anyway he is listed as a top 3 running back of all time on pretty much any sports list you will find.)

As I'm walking out of his room I drop the card and the $20, as well as two $10 bills because he demands all of my cash, I had more but he seemed satisfied when I told him it was all I had and since I was walking out of the building backing away from him and the gun he didn't question me or see otherwise.

I get to the Parking lot (which looks like my apartments parking lot for the most part) there is a brief pause when I can't find my car, I kind of freak out but end up finding it and start to drive away as quickly as possible.

As I pull out of the Drive way there is a wreck behind me after I'm on the road, some little old lady, I hear the police sirens getting there really fast but the wreck k didn't involve me so I drive on without looking back.

So I pull down the side street next to the complex and now its suddenly dark and rainy (This changed in weather wasn't a concern in the dream)

I have my window rolled down and see the guy who robbed me walking quickly across the street and he notices me and shoves my car; he somehow has the ability to spin my car around somewhat on the road as he shouts at me to get out of there and never come back.

Now is where I get more control of my dream actions

I am pissed off so finish spinning the car around and honk my horn, I'm going to try and run him over. However I soon find out that honking your horn seems to bring police immediately in this dream world as they will show up mere moments later.

Anyway I'm charging at the guy who is watching me standing in the middle of the street when something darts in front of me and I wreck into it)

*Things get kind of hazy here as I'm starting to forget despite my best efforts not to*

The gist of it is that numerous people get injured/killed in sudden accidents or road rage based on these accidents. As I mentioned earlier the UK had become like a “safety utopia” of sorts and so this was very unusual and everyone was freaking out; as they hadn’t seen car accidents, people dying or fighting in years.

Now we insert a new documentary update of England slipping back into “medieval black death European society”

Suddenly the streets are gravel, and there are people dressed up in the bubonic plague attire with the beak mask roaming the street

Some vendors and people are carrying around animal jaw bones (I have no clue as to why, and this did seem weird to me outside of the news I learned from the documentary update, but it did not appear to be strange to anyone else around me.)

Also all of the houses along the road had these big jars full of preserved things like in Biology class, I couldn't make out what these things were looked like new strange animals to me

Anyway I wake up noticing these things while I'm hiking uphill on this gravel street trying to flee the city, though it’s strange as many people fleeing the city, there was that many entering in from the country side passing me on the opposite side of the road.





So anyone good at interpreting dreams? I’d love to hear what you have to say… Some of the hotel stuff I can relate to real life recent happenings, but the European utopia slipping into a plague ridden city? And the deal for the football card? No clue.