February 26

 

Dream 1

I am working in a school alongside one of my friends. I am munching on a slice of pizza holding it in one hand and typing on a keyboard with the other. I can hear a teacher and student in the hallway. The young student is whining because he apparently can smell the pizza and is now demanding some. I poke my head out into the hallway to verify what I think is going on and see that a teacher is trying to reason with the student. I sit back down at my desk and continue to munch on my pizza slice. My friend rolls her office chair close to mine and quietly suggests that I should not be eating pizza at my desk if it’s going to cause a commotion. She proceeds to remind me that there is actually a rule stating that employees are not to eat at their desks. I am annoyed that my friend is lecturing me on this. While still holding the pizza slice, I turn to her and ask, ‘Don’t you ever get tired of following all the rules?’

Dream 2

I am on the side of the road with a colleague near the old parochial school that I used to attend. It is unclear what we are doing there. We can’t help but notice a kid slumped on the back half of a motorcycle parked near us. The child looks to be about 12 years old and is wearing a poncho pulled up high under his neck and covering most of his body. He appears to be either drugged or intoxicated. He is alone with no adult nearby. We approach him and ask him a few questions, but his eyes keep shutting and any comments he makes are incoherent. I am wondering what we should do when suddenly I back away. I cannot help but think that this is a trap – that this child could be a suicide bomber hiding explosives under his poncho waiting to be detonated.