Another strange dream

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I dreamed my wife and I had been to some sort of large family event near my
cousin Carolyn’s.

The event had ended and we were packing up to go home.
For some reason we have quite a bit of stuff to pack, and we had my little
PriusC with us so there wasn’t much room.

Also strange was my mother seemed to be traveling with us.

We were doing this packing in the parking lot of a shopping area. It
looked like there used to be a market and some other shops there, but now
they were all boarded up.

As my wife and I stuffed items in the car trying to make sure there was
enough room for three of us to sit, my mother complained about how close
the other cars were parked to us. She didn’t think there would be enough
room for her to get in the car.
I kept telling her that it didn’t matter until we had all the stuff in the
car, but she kept going on about it.

Finally I went to look on the passenger side of the car. There was a very
big pickup truck parked next to the car. And, it was so close it had to
fold its side mirror in to get next to my car. No one would be able to get
in on that side.

“I’ll move the car,” I told my mother.
Before I could, my wife jumped in the driver’s seat and moved the car to
another place in the same row of the lot.
“There you go,” I told my mother. “Now you can get in and we can go home.”
“Don’t forget to get your keys from your father first,” she told me as she
started to get into the car.
“I’ll get them now,” I said.

I went to one of the boarded up stores and opened the door. It was very
dark inside, but I could see the outline of people standing in the dark.

“Dad, I need my keys,” I said to one of the dark figures standing near the
door.
The silhouette of the person there reached into a pocket and produced my
keys. He threw them over to me and I caught them.
“Thanks,” I said, and walked back out to the parking lot.

Dream ends

I know it is not in the “text” of the dream, but I woke up certain that I
had just visited my father in the land of the dead to get those keys. (He
died 15 ½ years ago. His birthday would have been last week.)
And, I also woke up worried about why I need those keys.

We’ll see…

Comments

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

Keys are for locking up and opening doors. It looks more like you'll need them to open something.