February 18

Dream 1

I am getting ready to cross a busy downtown intersection with my little brother. He is holding a gadget shaped like a Rubik’s cube, but that’s not what it is. Instead, this gadget has different settings for slow, caution, cross, go, etc. and pedestrians proceed based on what lights up. I have never seen one of these before and I’m a bit nervous when he tells me it’s safe to cross, but I follow his lead.

Dream 2

A new parochial school is having a grand opening. I don’t know what my connection to the school is but I pull open the heavy outer door and enter. A teacher is standing in the hallway while students are neatly lined up behind her. She is clearly annoyed by my barging in, somehow expecting me to be part of the celebration which I clearly am not. I walk through the entire school and notice that each classroom is dedicated to one of the senses (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting). The characters from Seinfield are also interwoven. I work my way to the top floor where there are no classrooms. The entire floor is covered with snow. From the third floor I look out a window and see railroad tracks extending across the second story roof extension

Dream 3

I am walking on a sidewalk and spot a car with the back door open. I peer inside and see a man sitting alone in the back seat. He has blond dreadlocks and looks very unkempt. He is drinking from a large bottle of liquor. It is early in the morning. I start to make a joke that it must be ‘5:00 o’clock somewhere’ but decide not to. Instead, he jokes about his drinking.

Dream 4

I am getting dropped off by a cab. I am in front of two identical houses and stand between them. My younger brother comes out of one of the houses. My son’s former fiancée comes out of the other. He is holding one hand up in an unusual manner and I notice he has what looks like an infected lesion on that hand. I don’t know what to pay attention to – my brother or this infected hand.