More Dreams.
Jul. 23rd, 2008 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupLast night's dreams were far more pedestrian. I'm only recording them because I actually remember them.
It started out with me visiting friends in an empty and stripped building that was being worked on. We had some legit reason to be there, which has now faded. Wandering around decrepit buildings is a common theme in my dreams anyway.
At some point we finished whatever we were doing and the decision was made to walk a block or so to a nearby Chinese restaurant. I got delayed by something and didn't arrive until some time later. As I was asking at the Maitre D's desk for where my party was, one of them (Terry) came out and said he had to run. He handed me the bill for half the party and some money and asked me to take care of it. Then he was gone. As I was trying to figure out what was going on, another person from our party (that I didn't know 'cause he was a friend of a friend) did the same thing with the bill for the rest of the people.
I spent the next amount of time in the dream trying to figure out the bill which was messed up, and it turned out this was on purpose because the restaurant had accidentally written ridiculously low prices for its specials and didn't want to honor them... In the end I gathered that everyone had finished eating and so I settled the bills and headed back to the abandoned building without actually eating.
There I met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blacksquiggles who had apparently been shopping in there with friends. (WTF?). She asked where everyone was and I said that they were last seen at the Chinese restaurant but that they had probably all gone home by now, as that was an hour ago. She asked me to show her, and we and her friends trudged back.
When I got there we had a bit of a loud disagreement about whether I wanted to deal with the disgruntled Maitre d' to ask if my friends were still inside. While we were doing that, an exit door opened andarchdiva and crew (who had not previously appeared in the dream) came out to fetch us. It seems that lots of random friends-of-friends had all descended on the same restaurant by accident and it had turned into a bit of an impromptu dinner-party that was still ongoing.
We all went in and there were huge banquet tables that had been hastily set up to handle the huge crowd we had become. It looked like there were 100 people all eating. The waiters were extremely happy and the Maitre d' was beaming. When I asked a random person at the tables what had happened he said that someone at the far end of the table had pulled out a wad of bills, handed them to the Maitre d' and told him he was paying. The Maitre d' could charge whatever he thought appropriate for the food and to and to come back for more if it ran out. This apparently immediately soothed all ruffled feathers and allowed the meal to continue.
As the dream ended the wait staff was bringing in what appeared to be plate after plate of food, and folks were starting to dig in for their fourth course while I got ready for my first.
Sometimes my brain is not very subtle in its hints to me and I have no trouble interpreting my dream. In fact, it exactly echoes whatsps told me last night. In essence, when things seem difficult or unduly complicated, its not necessarily my job to sort them out. Also, its perfectly acceptable to let someone in a better bargaining position sort things out for me.
It started out with me visiting friends in an empty and stripped building that was being worked on. We had some legit reason to be there, which has now faded. Wandering around decrepit buildings is a common theme in my dreams anyway.
At some point we finished whatever we were doing and the decision was made to walk a block or so to a nearby Chinese restaurant. I got delayed by something and didn't arrive until some time later. As I was asking at the Maitre D's desk for where my party was, one of them (Terry) came out and said he had to run. He handed me the bill for half the party and some money and asked me to take care of it. Then he was gone. As I was trying to figure out what was going on, another person from our party (that I didn't know 'cause he was a friend of a friend) did the same thing with the bill for the rest of the people.
I spent the next amount of time in the dream trying to figure out the bill which was messed up, and it turned out this was on purpose because the restaurant had accidentally written ridiculously low prices for its specials and didn't want to honor them... In the end I gathered that everyone had finished eating and so I settled the bills and headed back to the abandoned building without actually eating.
There I met
blacksquiggles who had apparently been shopping in there with friends. (WTF?). She asked where everyone was and I said that they were last seen at the Chinese restaurant but that they had probably all gone home by now, as that was an hour ago. She asked me to show her, and we and her friends trudged back.When I got there we had a bit of a loud disagreement about whether I wanted to deal with the disgruntled Maitre d' to ask if my friends were still inside. While we were doing that, an exit door opened and
archdiva and crew (who had not previously appeared in the dream) came out to fetch us. It seems that lots of random friends-of-friends had all descended on the same restaurant by accident and it had turned into a bit of an impromptu dinner-party that was still ongoing.We all went in and there were huge banquet tables that had been hastily set up to handle the huge crowd we had become. It looked like there were 100 people all eating. The waiters were extremely happy and the Maitre d' was beaming. When I asked a random person at the tables what had happened he said that someone at the far end of the table had pulled out a wad of bills, handed them to the Maitre d' and told him he was paying. The Maitre d' could charge whatever he thought appropriate for the food and to and to come back for more if it ran out. This apparently immediately soothed all ruffled feathers and allowed the meal to continue.
As the dream ended the wait staff was bringing in what appeared to be plate after plate of food, and folks were starting to dig in for their fourth course while I got ready for my first.
Sometimes my brain is not very subtle in its hints to me and I have no trouble interpreting my dream. In fact, it exactly echoes what
sps told me last night. In essence, when things seem difficult or unduly complicated, its not necessarily my job to sort them out. Also, its perfectly acceptable to let someone in a better bargaining position sort things out for me.
