E Eats

I had awoken Saturday morning at 8am sharp from a dream, exclaiming with a gasp “Marion!” (We had plans that morning) we texted and I fell back asleep for an hour

I was in presumably Texas. It was flat and dusty and hot. We were surrounded by ranch style houses with tall concrete walls between them. Me and Beth were laying in some sharp dry grass towards the end of the driveway, just lounging. Natasha was there too, talking about some people neither of us knew. To the left was a ranch house with a concrete patio and circle windows and wind chimes and colorful donkey art. We were waiting for Marion so we could make brunch.

Beth asked me something and I thought about it and we shrugged it off. Then on the other side of me I saw three bright orange, fat snakes! I got Beth’s attention and we both couldn’t figure out if they were real or not. But they one by one they rose from their slumber and slithered off leaving behind a pile of goo. The last snake was thick but was probably only 3 inches big… a little nub snake left in this pile of very sticky clear goo. It too left. Encased in the goo was what seemed to be a decomposing miniature cat skull or something of the sort. From the goo a very alive fluffy plump beige bird emerged. However It was not covered in goo somehow which I found confusing. It had bright teal under feathers. It flew away.

Beth asked if we could start brunch without Marion and I said “hold on let me call her” and I started down the driveway with my phone to text her. That’s when I remembered I was supposed to meet up with her in physical reality and that I was in a dream and I needed to text her on my actual cellphone.

So I woke up and texted my beautiful gf.

I feel like every winter I dive into these books

I am going to try and get back into recording my dreams

The farthest back I can remember of my dream is that i was on the road, on a trip and I was staying in this house with a mother and a daughter who were vampires. I can’t remember if they flat out told us or if it was something that was discovered but it was very obvious. I remember this one scene where, it was night and I was staying in this corner room, bed by the window, clutching my knees bc tbh I was afraid of one of them eating me but I was ashamed of that fear bc they were being so hospitable. I think Alex was on this trip with me bc I think before the aforementioned scene we had been organizing with the vampires …

Anyway, we ended up leaving that situation I don’t know why and it’s very fuzzy what happened… what I do remember from there is that I was with Jackie on this road trip and we had stopped at a weed store because I insisted on picking up. It was in the building that usps was in when I was a child in Monroe CT. When we went in no one was wearing masks and I did this weird move where I started wearing my mask on top of my head. It had some weird Ed hardy esc print on it…. Anyway Jackie was sketched by the lack of masks and was kinda milling about uncomfortably but I was talking to these two clerks trying to get this certain weed and this one girl was like “sorry we don’t have that but we just got in this bag of vintage clothes want to go through it with us?” And I was like totally! I don’t remember all the items they pulled out but there was this one puffy jacket with soft brown shoulders that cut down into a v, then the belly was this pastel yellow and the bottom was navy blue and there were little orange accents on it. At some point I remembered Jackie was waiting for me so we left and went to this hotel and I don’t remember the details of it but I remember sitting in a walk in closet with them where we were kinda just going through our bags and talking.

At some point I fell asleep in this massive king size bed and I woke up to Jackie whispering “hey e I’m going to go I’ve got to get to work” and I was like ok I’ll miss you and somewhere in that goodbye I came too and was like wait wait wait you’re going to take a taxi back to philly?!? That’s going to be so expensive is it because you’re just trying to leave right now? And they were like yah I can’t be late for work

And I was like dude I can get ready in a minute and a half ! So I whipped out of bed, the curtains were drawn and I was running about this room trying to pack my bag when I noticed one of the stock photos in a picture frame was of Melissa peters, a childhood bff. I was shocked and was like why is this here!! What’s going on? And then Jackie showed me another frame with had a picture of my mom in it… needless to say I started spiraling about that and when I looked outside a hoard of ghosts I had released from a previous chapter were all standing outside the window.

Then Alex showed up and somehow management was called I think Jackie left and the hotel manager was surveying me and I believe what we found out was that my family had been to this hotel when I was a child and had stayed in this exact room.