The Ghost of Christmas

Very long dream this. Dreamt I had arranged to meet RM. My dad drops me off somewhere and I’m waiting for a lift. A black cab turns up. We get to a house and I’m shown in. I turn on the TV and sit on the sofa. This lad comes in, but this isn’t him either. He leaves the room for a moment. I off the sofa and realise I am bleeding, which I think is strange because came off my period only a few days ago. This guy comes back into the room and sees me trying to clean myself up, he groans.

I go into the room next door, which happens to be a bedroom. There is a girl there, she is small with blonde hair. She is getting ready to go to bed. She tells me she called me here because she has something to tell me. I’m confused, I say I thought I was supposed to be meeting RM. She tells me they used to go out for 8 years then he dumped her and she wants to warn me. (sounds like what happened with P.).

I leave the house in the same taxi. I tell him to drop me off wherever it was he picked me up, but he doesn’t listen. At one point he drops me off in a field. There are lots of women there having a picnic. Someone fetches me and brings me over to a group of women. I think they are friends of this girl I just met. A woman sits down next to me, she has dark straight bobbed hair. She says hello. I’m not sure how she knows my name. I think these are all women who were at the same school. One of them looks like KS.

I leave and the taxi takes me to this old medieval town. There are lots of tudor buildings. It’s very pretty. The taxi stops by a pub, it is sunny again. The taxi man says he is going inside and tells me to wait. A Spanish family turn up and try to get into the taxi, I tell them they can’t. they apologise and sit down on the grass and get out a picnic. There are other people sitting on the grass as well.

I get tired of waiting, so I go into the pub. Which turns out to be a very posh restaurant. A group of sailors turns up. The head waiter tells me he will go and look for the taxi man. I follow him. The restaurant turns into a kind of shopping mall. There is a family sitting at a table by a coffee shop. I can music, a piano. There is a live concert going on. I stand by the door and listen for a bit.

When I get outside I see the taxi man is back and Willy Wonka is sitting in the back. He doesn’t want me to get in, so he has put some booster seats on the seat next to him. I shift them over and get in. The taxi drops me off at another house. It is a modern terraced house. The driver turns out to be RMs dad. RM shows up, but he looks like Billy Fielding. They are both dressed in black. I think they must be funeral directors. We are standing in the front garden of the house. It is a small garden. The family who lived here have moved. There are two trees in the garden. One looks as if it has recently been put there, another is being dug up. RM tells me that the family want to take the trees with them.

Fun Run

I have gone running with sis C. and her husband Ch. We are all resting on a bench, we are very tired. I’m amazed we managed to run so far. Someone is saying we didn’t run fast enough. I think we did very well though. It was to do with a drink, some water. Clair is rubbing her ankle, she is saying she didn’t realise what the water was, she couldn’t see the meteor in it. I think it must have had special qualities.

The scene changes to a suburban road. It is sunny and the trees that line the road are green. There are birds in the trees. This one large black bird (a crow?) is chasing the other birds. Most of them are able to fly away. I pick one who is left out of the tree. It is a baby bird. I am sitting in an armchair with this bird (in the street!).

I think I am flicking through a magazine or watching something on TV. I see Kate Winslet in a black dress, and her hair has been straightened and she is wearing very bare make-up. There is another woman there with long black hair very similarly dressed. I think they look like the women out of an advert for French perfume.

I see a crystal shimmering sea. It is beautiful. I am standing on a cliff looking down on it. I think I see a green light in the water. Someone else is there with me. A man. We have a task to do, but it is very dangerous. I think we have come to get something.