Dreams 01/15/2021

 Traveling dreams. In one, my dad and I were in separate vehicles, on some form of expressway, but going to the same place, home. I got off at an exit, landing (impossibly, as there is no such exit in reality) right in part of our back yard. I got out, happy to be home, and let my cat (seemed to be Janie, in reality long dead), out of the soft-sided bag/carrier, rather like some reusable shopping bags I have) to walk happily about on the ground. She stopped and rolled in a little grassy depression for a few moments. I was, however, a little perturbed to see that my dad had missed the exit, perhaps going on to Boston.

I spent a little bit of time worrying whether I could contact him (not sure I could get through by phone, for example — in real life, he doesn't use his pay-as-you-go-phone). Fortunately, he showed up in the yard a little bit later, appearing in our driveway in a large SUV/van type vehicle. There were two young blonde ladies up in the front of the van; he'd given them a ride; apparently they lived nearby in town. They got out and started walking up the road outside our house.

As they left, a young man also was there in the driveway as if he had left the vehicle; not sure what his story was — another ride share, perhaps. He may have been Black (seemed to have an afro).

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I found myself at IKEA; I again seemed to have my cat with me (here she was walking around), and so was keeping one eye on her to make sure I didn't lose her while out and about.

I was picking up some storage containers (plastic — have been doing so recently in real life), and decided that I ought to get more than one of what I had picked out, so I wouldn't have to keep coming back there so often. (Just as many of us in real life have been learning to make fewer trips during Covid Time.)