Last I remember, is a girl walking, who seemed to be cybernetic. Or, she had machine parts. She had a hole in the back of her jaw, under her ear, and seemed to walk with a limp, as the robotic part couldn’t keep up. She had children. Only one was with her at the time, though… or that’s what I am remembering, perhaps. It’s not clear. Others around her were also with robotic parts. The world didn’t seem that prosperous here. She was my friend’s wife… A doctor. I wondered why she couldn’t afford to get fixed.
Just previously, I had been with my friend– Someone who I hadn’t seen in years. Haven’t seen in years. I had him and both of his children– A blond little girl, and a younger brown headed boy. I remember the girl as a baby, in a picture, on her mother’s Facebook profile. I don’t remember the boy. I was driving a van, and it seemed Alston was there, and so was Craig. Nate- the father, his face was red and splotchy, like he had some kind of infection or skin disorder. Somehow, I almost put the van I was driving into a ditch, but I managed to pull it out. We were all but fully stuck.
We were on our way somewhere. I don’t know where, exactly, but it had something to do with high school– Probably the last place I had a stable peer group. I went to college, but bounced around those, and had problems making friends outside of the institution of public school systems, where I got years to warm up to people. I just felt it was fake, in college. For the most part. There might have been a couple, or one that I warmed up to, who was new. But anyways, my dreams often, if they have people, they have people from high school.
We were on our way to something with my home-town people.
And I remember sleeping with Erin. I remember she came over, and we spent time with each other. Why she’s in my dreams, I have no idea. It has just been recently. We were somewhat intimate, but there seemed to be a maturity about it. To take it slow. She even told me it was sort of a bet between her and some of her friends, to play a guy, and I was that guy, but it turned into something more real. No kissing, just laying next to one another. Some light touching. She said goodbye.
I don’t know about the placement of that time.
I remember my brother writing me and telling me he had grown some marijuana, and had enough for one joint, and he wanted to try it. I was having a conversation with him, and my father, at nearly the same time, through text. I didn’t want my father to know, but I was excited my brother was interested in this plant. He seemed to want my support/advice. At some point, I was shown what he had grown, and it was just a little bit. He was excited there was a seed. I think I accidentally mixed my weed in with his when I put it back into the bag he brought, when he did. But they were easily distinguishable from one another. He was happy there was one seed. I told him I saw a few more, and popped a couple out, and he was worried I was breaking up his bud, asking, won’t that break it, or something, as he wanted to preserve the nug until he smoked. I basically shrugged, in my response.
I remember hearing from him, and he explained that the was thinking about thinking… and about how Jill was just Jill… How he hadn’t thought this way before. I was happy he was enjoying it, but wondering how he did it without his wife knowing.
Drove something into a place that had a lot of containers, and salt lamps, and other things. Jeff- the owner of Nature’s Market, seemed to own this place, as well. The outside doors were plastic, see-through, like what someone might set up around a temporary lab to deal with some disease. Not heavy-solid, but the kind you can quickly set up… like a tent.
Back with Nate, and Alston… we were at the place where we were going, and I remember being in an audience. Brandon looked at me, smiled, and brought me a microphone, and I was supposed to say something. I had no idea what to say, and what did come out sounded ugly, and horribly low. People laughed. I knew I had a better voice than that. Erin was there, too. After, I was sort of ignoring her, although I looked for her, as she was one of the performers in whatever it was… when I was speaking in the microphone, and around then, because I worried mainly what she thought of me. I ignored her because I couldn’t face her after my embarrassment, but she appeared, and seemed to brush up against me intentionally, putting her weight on me. When she started to move away, I grabbed her by her jeans- the waste of, and pulled her near me. She acted like we were nothing, from the night before, and told me “No, you’re too big for me.”
I was sort of depressed/mad about this. Apparently it was all just a joke between her and friends. Alston seemed interested in consoling me, as I was mad. We stayed around, there was a parking lot. There was a rock concert which I caught part of. A guy was drumming on various things, and that’s what kept me. I didn’t care much for the music. Many from my town had bought tickets, but I was broke. I remember the singers, some part of their song involved hurt fingers. A guy came up to my immediate group, of Nate, Alston… and told us we had to leave. But we said we worked there, or someone with us did. We stayed a little while longer.
Then we moved to a church, or what seemed to be a church. I saw programs… and in them, pictures of a theater group. At least two people I recognized from high school. One was Erin, and the other, a guy- I forget his name. Richard something. One show Erin was part of, that seemed popular, was called Neto. Pronounced “Neat-O”. Next I looked, they were in Star-Trek outfits, and part of the new Star-Trek series, in this program-flyer. But I tried to see Erin, and her face was cut off by the program details, which were slightly transparent, to let her image through, just not as well as I had just seen it. She seemed prominent, though.
In that room, my group took seats in many areas. I took a seat next to a girl named Christina. Alston next to a guy near the front, and Nate, somewhere else… to my right, of my position. One girl was naked, and when I saw her, she wrapped herself in plastic. She made out with her boyfriend. One guy started tossing tennis-balls at me. I missed the first one or two, but then timed it right, and caught both at the same time. They had both hit my forehead. Then he switched to golf-balls, and I said no.
We seemed to be waiting, on the concert.
And then I remember the girl walking, with cybernetic parts.