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When I was young, the aunt that my wife and I visit in the retirement home now had a cottage near the ocean. I spent most of my summers there until I became old enough to get a job.

I dreamed I was in that cottage. The room layout wasn’t quite the same as I was in what I think was my grandmother’s room there, but it was where the living room should be.

There were two windows that looked out over the empty lot to the south of the cottage and the neighbor’s house on the other side of that lot could be seen.

It was in the middle of the night and very dark outside. It looked like one of those dark clear nights when the stars are very bright, so I was looking out of the windows to see if I could see the stars in the sky.

I noticed that the neighbor’s house had all of it’s lights on as if everyone was up and awake. As I knew this was the middle of the night, I thought that strange.

As I tried to get a better view out the window, I paid more attention to the grates in it. My grandmother used to have screen inserts she could put in her open window that let in air, but not bugs.
I had thought that these were the same inserts.
But, a closer look revealed they were actually bars on the windows.
I looked behind me, and the door out of the room was clearly locked.
I turned to the neighbor’s house again and realized all the lights were on because they were watching the cottage to make sure I didn’t escape.
Dream Ends

I have no idea what that was about. When I was about 10 a house was built in that empty lot and we couldn’t see those neighbors anymore. So, I didn’t grow up looking out windows at them.
They were friends with my aunt and would come over and play cards once and a while. I never got the impression they were watching us. Their daughter, who was about my sister’s age, became an opera singer in New York City, and I have no idea what she’s been up to since then. And, that was 45 years ago.

The cottage was a place I enjoyed going and spent a lot of happy time there.
Not sure why it would show up as a prison…
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