June 14, 2022
Dreams
I’m going down the steps to the subway. I can hear chanting. There’s some sort of woman’s rights protest. I stand against a pillar. I don’t want to look like I’m facing away from everyone. I don’t want to look like I’m avoiding the protest. I’m slightly nervous. Someone comes up to me and puts a badge on my chest. It’s a yellow badge with a black smily face. The subway shows up. I board it along with some of the protesters. They’re all saying ‘We will not be silenced’.
Once the subway starts moving the protesting loses it’s intensity. I start talking to some guys around me. Somehow we all just finished watching a video. The video took place in a parking lot. Jay Leno came up to someone else and said “Hey what’s up?”
We were talking about how that video was a welcome relief to all the protesting. I told the guys that I couldn’t describe how happy I was when I heard that from Jay. I imitated his voice. We were all dying of laughter.
I’m out on the patio. I’ve decided to smoke weed. It’s winter and everything is grey. I’m listening to a video of Joe Rogan interviewing Dr. Phil. They’re talking about God. I suddenly realize I don’t have to smoke weed. I remember that it’s just going to make everything worse. I get very happy and start pacing. Joe Rogan starts really annoying me so I change the video. I start listening to three woman interview Dr. Phil. They’re talking about God and prayer.
At one point they ask Dr. Phil about his first guitar. He shows his Telecaster and tells some story about how he saw it as a boy and fell in love with it. I’m in the video now, looking at the guitar. I turn around and see that I’m in a guitar shop. The walls are covered in guitars. There’s a bunch more on the floor. The store just received them. They’re colourful, miniature Stratocaster’s.
The store somehow becomes a skateboard store. Ryan is working there. I grab a skate deck, which becomes very small. I start doing tricks with my fingers. I ask if he remembers how Jimmy loved Tech Deck’s. He says ‘yah’.
Then we’re skating inside a room. It’s not very bright and not very big. There’s lots of wooden ramps and boxes to skate on.
In the dream everything felt like I was experiencing memories. It was like I’d seen all this stuff before. I realize now that none of this stuff ever happened.
Ryan seemed to be someone else now. He was doing crazy tricks on the quarter pipe.
I was watching a video of myself skating. I launched off a kicker and did a kick flip onto another box. It was very clean. In the video I looked about six. I was even wearing the orange sweater I wore when I was about six.
Now I’m on the other side of the room. It’s turned into a stage. I’m there with Janis Joplin. We’re singing. Jim Morrison walks onto to the stage next to us. Everyone starts cheering like crazy.
John Lennon was suddenly there. So was Jimi Hendrix. Kurt Cobain might’ve been as well. We were all jamming together. It was very fun. I was in the corner singing into a microphone.
Suddenly everyone was heading outside. There was a door that led to my patio. Evyn came up to me. We were holding each others hands in the air. I told him his hands were so warm. I realized that he’d been drumming. I was nervous that people would think I was drunk. I wasn’t, I was just hyper. I was going to tell them that I had drank tea, and so I had caffeine in me. That was only if they asked, though. They didn’t ask.
I was thinking that I was going to have to take the bus to get home at some point.
I’m at the Fox selling popcorn. Then I’m in the auditorium. We’re showing an old kids movie. The lights are on. The kids are at the front of the theatre. They’re meant to take part in the movie. They’re acting out roles in the movie, as the movie plays behind them. They’re also singing along. A Fox employee is helping to organize all of this.
At one point two older boys are standing at the back of the theatre. They keep shouting ‘Thank you Toronto!” They’re shouting it loud so that you can’t hear the kids at the front. I get really mad. I go over and kick them out.
I’m interviewing Nana on camera. I’m with dad. We drop her off at home, but in the dream she lived across the street from Glen Ames. I see her walking up to her house, pushing her walker.
I’m meeting up with some man. I’m there to help with his new company. I think I’m doing videos or photos for him.
He’s talking about electric cars and how they don’t have much future. I get really annoyed. Later he asks me if I’m angry about what he’d said earlier. I told him that it was just weird hearing him say stuff that didn’t make much sense. I said that it didn’t take much digging to realize that the entire world was moving in that direction. I talked about how Volkswagen was undergoing an enormous restructuring of their company. Electric cars were’t just something that existed around Elon Musk. I also told him how he sounded like people who said that the internet and the first cars were going to be a fad.