Friday

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I've been sleeping very well, but last night I had strange dreams and I woke up not particularly refreshed. Usually I can tell the difference between my 'brain static' dreams and my 'this is information' dreams, but I'm not sure about last night's.


I dreamed that one of my best and oldest girlfriends from childhood (MA) was visiting and she greeted my Ex's new SO by dashing across the room and grabbing her in a long, tight hug. Then, when we were alone, she told me that she too had had an encounter with a nasty shapeshifting spirit. (To my knowledge neither she nor I have dealt with this creature in real life. And I don't think such things are within her frame of reference anyway.) Then I dreamed that MA's mother was also there, at the table with my daughter and me, and P -- a friend of my household -- was there and asked the mother what her philosophy of child raising was. She looked at him kind of coldly and said she would answer the one question and that was all, and then started talking about Old Testament principles. None of which sounds like her. (She's very warm, and probably would have been happy to talk about how she raised three girls and is helping with a number of grandkids.)


I'm still trying to dig out from the pile of work at the office that was starting to stack up even before I took Thursday and Friday off to grieve. People are being kind to me, but I'm getting frustrated at the sheer amount of stuff I need to do, and I'm not feeling particularly charitable toward the people who come to me for assistance. Doing my best to hide that, however, as most of them are not actually being unreasonable.

On the plus side, I seem to be able to make regular posts again.

Comments

[seauleja.livejournal.com]

If this were my dream, I might think it was about the shifting of family roles (family being a loose term). Perhaps through the darkness of your current veil, the challenge of these changes feels more hostile or antagonistic than it will be in actuality.