Dreams

I often dream of a house. Always the same house, but dreams take place in different parts of the house. Sometimes in the attic, sometimes in the yard. Sometimes a lot of people are in the house, but sometimes it's just me.

It's an old house, with run down siding, and large rooms. A strange part about the house is that there are secret rooms. In the front of the house, under the stairs, there is a small hidden door. The door leads to one or two small rooms that had no windows. They were furnished, though it never occured to me how the furniture got in the rooms.

The rooms always seemed like they were forgotten. Whenever I dream of the house, the rooms were always there, I might not visit them, or even think about them in my dream, but I know they are there.

I dreamt last night that I was standing in the yard, which was by a body of water, a lake or river, looking at the front of the house. I saw that the rooms were no longer secret rooms, they were now right inside the main entrance, completely visible from the yard, and refurnished with new items.

I noticed that the yard looked well-manicured, and the house looked like it had been painted, or restored, it looked good from where I was standing. In the past the outside has been decrepit and falling apart at times.

I dreamt that I was on a vacation. Nowhere in particular, but I was outside sleeping for part of the dream. Then I was walking with my Aunt Mary. We were in New York, which is where she lives in real life. Though I've never been there, I knew where I was going.

I remember her being surprised that I knew my way around, and I quipped that it was my third time visiting. It did seem strangely familiar though.

Then we were walking down stone stairs into some sort of tunnel that ran beneath buildings. There were other people walking through there.

Suddenly I grabbed her to keep her from walking into a giant spider web that covered the entire path.

Previously in the dream, I had picked up some flowering branches from a bush. I still had them in my hand, and they became an old-fashioned broom when I tried to push the webs out of the way.

Instead of breaking, the web bounced back like it was made of rubber. It took a considerable amount of force to finally break it and start to sweep it up.

Mary ran to the other side and waited for me as I cleaned up the spider webs, which wasn't easy, they were so thick and sticky. I was in the process of doing this when I saw the giant fist-sized spider to the side, and that's when I woke up.

So, I dreamt that I was in a large house, much like the one I'm living in. It was under construction, also like my house. I was trying to place the dryer in the laundry room. Keep in mind it was not the size of a dryer, nor was it heavy. So I was just carrying this thing around. I wanted to place it up against the wall where it should go, but there was no wall.

The floor boards were placed several inches apart from each other, so you could see the ground beneath. The ground was very far down though. I immediately realized that I was balancing myself and the dryer on the edge of the unfinished floor, where there was no wall, looking down a good 3 stories.

Elsewhere in the dream, I was at some sort of party, with lots of anonymous people. I knew who they were, but don't remember specifically if they were actually people I know. I don't know what type of occassion it was, but there were presents, for everyone, not just me. ;)

At the end of the dream, I was standing outside, people were milling about, maybe leaving the party. I saw a shadow pass over the moon. It happened rapidly, and a couple times. Then I woke up...