mokie_edom | Dream: Schoolyard mausoleums (posted: 10 March 2004)

I dreamt of being back in school, in an unusual dorm room shared with several other students. A little old man sat at a table in the busy hallway outside the room, why I do not know. Several roomies explained, sneering, that he was against the expansion. I went out to ask him to explain his side so that I could make up my own mind, but my roomies were appalled that I would listen to him and perhaps believe him and take up his point of view.

I don't remember most of the things he pointed out as he took me around the building, except for the trees encased in glass. As he led me along, pointing things out, the roomies followed and heckled, or argued, but he ignored them and so did I. We gathered a fairly large crowd, including news crews. In a little dip of land with walls of falling brick, I said thanks and took my leave. I had my squirming nephew with me now and decided that I'd rather take the long way around than go directly back the way we came and have to deal with the roomies and the other people.

I took a wrong turn somewhere and found myself on small winding streets filled filled with dirty, haggard brick buildings, mostly one-story buildings on hills, but as I wandered, there were examples in better shape, brightly painted behind iron fences, with religious symbols on them. I'm not certain, but I believe I could see the sea beyond them, down the hill; the winding streets again reminded me of Ireland, in particular a previous dream in which I wandered a green tiled building as the city flooded.

I realized that the brick buildings were mausoleums.

I picked the direction the university lay in and ran with my nephew, figuring I could pick out the right streets once I got closer.

I eventually got back to the room (at which point I was alone, though I don't recall where or why the nephew disappeared), and got into a drugged three-way sexual encounter with two roomies--the one a female I liked, the other her boyfriend who liked me. The other roomies who had been upset over my listening to the old man set out to turn us in, but we were warned and they were distracted by

vampyrichamster, who showed them a threatening cartoon she'd been working on.

Notes and explanatory details
#1. At the time of the dream, I was back in college; I can also think of several situations in which I was asked to buy one party's side of the conflict without asking too many troubling questions.

#2. I didn't recognize any of the roommates, but sex has come up in my dreams before as conflict resolution.

#3.

vampyrichamster has often helped me deconstruct my dreams in the past. I wonder if her appearance here was her directly addressing the dream. Ha!