Sunday, July 31, 2011

a dream

A dream:
Road trip to an unidentified place. A rest stop somewhere in the desert. Things are kind of fuzzy at this point, but we reach our destination after a fashion, apparently a hotel. I find myself sharing a room with someone I know, let's call her Misty. We might have been at this place for any length of time. In the next moment we wind up at some sort of rehearsal for a play, or choir number, or a play with choir numbers - again, the nature of the event is mostly unknown to me, but Misty is to be honored in it. I find myself sitting next to and conversing with a different girl, call her Shoes, and warming up to her rather nicely. We are sitting in the area where the audience will be when we actually perform this, while Misty is doing something else on stage. I finish my current conversation with Shoes, then get up and leave the room to wander about the building we are in - which turns out to be a major church building, as everyone is dressed in Sunday clothes, and the decor is akin to that which you might find in a temple visitor center or even an actual temple. This particular building has five floors, and I wander aimlessly through them, finding scale models of the Garden of Eden, beautiful murals on the walls, and so on - in fact I am nearly convinced that I am in the temple itself, until I look out one of the large picture windows and see it partially concealed by trees across the way.
I wake up at this point, and not being able to drag myself out of bed promptly fall back asleep...
...and now I'm in the home I grew up in in California, apparently a couple of days later, with at least my brother and sister (n.b. - I don't in fact have a sister), sitting by a computer and fretting that we had another practice that night in a couple of hours. This is a problem, considering I do not remember where the last rehearsal was, except that it was at the end of the road trip I took in the first dream. I try frantically to look it up on Google Maps to see if I can remember, rejecting various locations as being too far off to reach in time, but nothing comes to me...
...and that's when I wake up properly and fail to go to church, yay. So it goes.