Dreams

Posted on February 27, 2003 in Dreams

Sometimes I have dreams inside of dreams, that occur to me as I break out of sleep into levels of higher wakefulness. In this dream I had this afternoon, I found myself in a church. For some reason, the ceremony had been interrupted. I used the opportunity to cross the auditorium quickly. Suddenly, the priests, the acolytes, and the choir all entered abruptly and blocked my way.

I woke from this into an apartment. It was somewhere in Japan, I think. We’d been taken there by a friend as political refugees. The daughter of the household next door brought us cooked vegetables and the mother showed us how she’d mastered cooking roast chicken with white gravy as she believed Americans loved it.

I felt paralyzed in my bed. I woke up and looked out the window, which was to my left instead of behind me as it is in my real world. A dark city skyline illuminated by the light of the setting moon draped itself along the window sill. “What country are we in?” I asked Lynn. “I don’t know.” And then, with an effort, I broke out of this sleep into this one where I blog and rinse my mouth in the aftermath of an extraction.