Dream XCI

I was going to go swimming but when I got there I was tired. Fortunately I'd brought my mattress with me. Before I could lie down, I felt something warm on my lip, and it turned out I had a bloody nose. I took care of it as best I could, and lay down beside the pool

When I woke up, the whole pool area was dark. In the darkness, I could hear other people wondering where the lights had gone. The pool person said he would check the fuses and he went outside to another building. While waiting, I decided I would see what I could do to help. I climbed up to the second floor and found some switches. I flipped them and was able to get some small lights back on, enough so that people could see where they were going, and not be in danger of falling into the pool.

However, the pool was so crowded that I couldn't do laps. A man with a flamboyant mustache smiled and suggested that it might be a long wait. I figured I would just leave, so I took a quick look at the parking lot.

The parking lot was actually a small dirt road with some wide banks along the side, and right at the moment it was extremely crowded. There was a sort of flea market there, and little carts were set up all along the road. I didn't think it would be possible to squeeze past them in my car, so I started walking back home.

I stopped by one of the carts. Some woman had lots of cats and kittens all dressed up in little frocks, wandering around and mewling. I picked up several. Some of them were as small as a thumbnail.

In the distance, I saw some cars approaching and I tried to gather as many of the cats off the road as I could. I couldn't bring them to the bank on the left, because it was densely forested, so thick with shrubs and trees that I could not pass the cats through.

I went further up the lane, and I saw that there was an entire portion of a house in the road, on the lane I'd been trying to clear. I asked whose it was, and a man said it was his, that it had come out of the house further up the bank, and ended next to the road.

I asked him if we could move it, and pointed to the approaching vehicles, and the cats that were still on the road. "Well, we can try to persuade it," he said.