Dream Log #6 "Birthday Parties"


I had two dreams on separate nights related to a friend's birthday party potluck that Kaori and I went to last night.  It was the first time I had gone to our friend's house and met their friends.  It was a little awkward, we didn't know anybody except the host and husband.  They are younger than Kaori and me; they are very casual generation x'ers, whereas I'm on the edge of being in the baby boomer generation.  Kaori and I also know my friend's mom from the UU church.  I was hoping to see my friend's mom, but she did not show up.

The first dream is at my friend's house.  I actually dreamt this the night before last.  So this is before the party, and it is before I had actually seen my friend's house. It was dark and at night.  I am in the front yard, where there is a large tree.  The house is kind of a boxy wooden house with a steep slanted roof.  I think the house is kind of dark wooden color.  There are several steps up onto a porch.  I hear my friend's voice, I cannot see her.  She is inviting me to come up and enter.  I entered and there a some long hallways left and right, and tile floors. It is kind of an office building feeling inside. Then I woke up.  My friend's actual house does have a large magnolia tree in the front yard.  But it is not boxy or wooden, and it does not have a large porch like I imagined.

The second dream was just before I woke up this morning.  We are in the mountains at a park where there is a party with people.  Kaori and I are standing above on on top of a small hill and a short cliff overlooking the park in a small valley below.  To our right are trees and a walking trail that brings you to the valley park below us.  Right below us is a dirt/gravel area with benches on the left, and then green natural small meadow and forest down lower in the small valley/gulch.  This is a party for another friend, Chris Brenner, whom I met 18 years ago after I quit my engineering job and went back to night school to study accounting. Chris started an adult soccer team which we played together in for five years that I enjoyed very much.  The party hasn't started yet, and there are people at the benches.  On the trail at the right, Chris' small daughter is walking with Chris ex-wife whom I know very well.  The daughter is only 4 or 5 years old.  She has blond hair and dressed very cutely.  The daughter runs ahead and goes up to the benches and hugs someone.  That is when I woke up.

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