Dream Diary: 19 May 2008

It felt like a journey through a fantasy world. Turn a corner, open a door, and you're somewhere or even someone completely different.

1.

I was at a lavish, extravagant Christmas party, with treasure hunts, gifts and candies hidden everywhere, candles and flowers and balloons and lace. It looked like the ball in Labyrinth, except all in white.

2.

I was at school, in Riyadh. We were preparing for a party of sorts, and we were talking about exchange gifts, and we had to buy those big crinkles from ADB.

I was even in my high school uniform, and I went with my friend Pie and another classmate around the school. We had to buy something. There was much activity around--kids playing, students chatting.

The school looked uncharacteristically clean--no trash, no posters or bulletin boards on the wall. I said as much, and our classmate pointed to a discarded box on the floor.

We were walking around the campus, and we turned a corner. I glanced to my right, into the window of a faculty room. Inside I saw one of our teachers, Mrs. Ferido. We walked behind another building, and into the window of another faculty room. She was there again.

I must have glanced into three or four faculty rooms, and she was always in them, each time wearing a different dress, but always looking outside the window, sitting at a table.

3.

Oneal and I were up in the mountains, eating at an outdoor table with a nice roof set up above, made of rattan and bamboo and leaves. It looked like a nice mountain resort. We were there with a group of mountaineers, and Ian. We were all eating and telling stories and laughing.

Then someone took me to a room, apart from everyone, as if to distract me. When I realized this, I burst through the doors and into the function hall, where everyone seemed to be in a meeting. Everyone fell silent. Some people left.

I think Oneal was outside with Ian. She was upset and he was trying to comfort her. I saw them and misunderstood, and when I got angry Oneal couldn't tell me what was happening.

I was also angry because I realized that Oneal was building something with one of the guys, and he didn't tell me. I realized it was dangerous and obssessive and it could kill him. I was so angry and so upset, that I couldn't even begin to ask Oneal what he were doing, and why. And he was so reticent and cold.

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when i woke up, it felt like i had dreamed enough for ten nights.