I said last night that I had a lot on my mind. I wasn’t kidding: I had two dreams last night. I don’t really remember as many details as I would like, but they’re interesting to me nonetheless.

In my first dream I think I was let go from my job without good reason. I just started tearing up as I walked through the office back to my desk. I managed to get back to my terminal before the systems people locked the computer down and took my stuff away. Although…I had nothing on there that I really wanted to take. My colleagues were kind of stone faced as I walked away.

So, apart from the lack of detail, one other thing I can note about the dream is how I wasn’t affected as badly as I normally would have been directly after the dream. Usually after something like this I would feel immediately sad after the dream due to various chemicals released in my body during the dream. No, this time. At least, nothing much. I was even reasoning with myself. After the dream I told myself that I had nothing to worry about with regards to chat logs being saved on the computer because they’d wipe the system clean for the next person. See! It was all rational, except for the fact that I was talking about a non-existent situation. Yeeeah.

My second dream was a bit more interesting. I think I was in an Amazing Race type competition. I was paired up with this guy whom I knew from elementary school but didn’t really get along with. No, in fact he treated me like shit me back then. He mellowed out in high school, but I still hated him entirely. So, I found it strange that I was paired up with him in this dream. Anyway, our current location was Germany, and we were in some location that was close to a riverside. My partner had the first task which involved him eating a rather large plate of carpaccio. It was made of sea bream. While he was attempting to eat all that raw fish, I snuck off to scope out the next task.

I was joined by a girl I knew in university. She was dressed all in black and knew exactly where to go. The next task involved searching this watery area for two mini oars. The area was actually dry at the time, so I was able to pick out exactly what I needed to get. So, I ran back to my partner and was only halfway through his carpaccio. I told him “it can’t be that bad, right? I’d be able to eat it!” He just grumbled. Instead of waiting, I ran back to the next task area but this time it was flooded. Instead of the oars floating to the top of the water, they must have been weighted down because I couldn’t see any of them. They were buried in the river water. I started swinging from the bars surrounding the area because I had no intentions of wading in the water. I grabbed an oar and took it with me back to the guy eating the carpaccio. On the way though, I asked the girl I was with whether the oar needed some sort of insignia on it. I didn’t have a clue on me so I wasn’t sure. Luckily she did have a clue. It said that I had to pick out an oar that had a red cross insignia on it. So, I ran back and fished a correct one out. I hid the oar underneath an overturned green canoe, ready for me to grab once we got there. I ran back to the guy who’d just finished all of the raw fish. We both ran over to the watery area, where I grabbed the oar. We got the next clue telling us to get to the airport. I yelled at the guy, “run like the wind!” So we ran for the LRT. Unfortunately, I was weighed down by my backpack, so it wasn’t so much running like the wind, but running like…a really gentle breeze. Ha! I had a map with me and I tried to figure out the train system, but I couldn’t make out the way to the airport. I don’t know what happened next, but we arrived at the airport terminal. We thought we were in first place, but when we got there we spotted another pair of competitors. When we saw each other we let out a big groan. So much for that!

And that’s when I woke up. I honestly have no interpretations for this one. Why the bully? Why Germany? Why carpaccio? Why oars with red insignias on ‘em?

In any case, it’s really been a while since I’ve had a dream like this. It’s all kind of entertaining, no?