Saturday, April 17, 2010

Crazy dream

I had this weird dream last night. I'm in a sleep and dreams class right now, so I found this one to be worthy of sharing.

So, have you ever seen Camelot, Camelot? There is simply not a more congenial spot? have you heard the story? Guinevere falls in love with King Arthur... they live happily for a certain amount of years. Then Lancelot shows up to be one of the knights of the round table, and Guinevere is like "dude, this guys hot". So she ends up falling in love with him... la la la.

Well imagine the story of Camelot in like... India. That's my dream. So I'm and Indian version of Guinevere and I fall in love with the king many many years ago. We've been married for a while, and then along comes Indian version of Lancelot. I fall in love with him, and decide i need to be with him. My father, who happens to be a prophet of some sort, decides we need to do this ritual to find out if "The Gods" are ok with it.

The ritual is this weird sort of dance. My dad and I start dancing around in this storm, and then he stops. And starts dragging me into the palace.

"What are you doing dad?"

"The Gods are not happy with your choice."

"How can you tell?"

"I smell it on my breath"

Ok, I know my brain is so weird. Anyways, my dad stands me between the two men. The one I love, and the one I used to love. I am holding both of their hands and the lightning starts coming into the palace. I'm crying because I already know the answer. Then the lightning spells out the name of Arthur (But it was some Indian name I dont remember).

SO, here's where my dreams takes a crazy twist. I'm in class, but i'm not me anymore. I'm a dude, that is sitting next to me. So me as this dude, is talking to me who is not me anymore. Get it? Girl me says "The Gods must be angry because the storm is crazy today". Then dude me (the one I am seeing through) says "Of course the Gods are angry, you made them angry".

Then, money starts falling out of the sky. Quarters. One hits me in the head, and I wake up (In my dream I wake up). Im still a dude, and the guys in my class had been throwing quarters at my head. One guy said.

"Why are you sitting with the girls, are you a hunter or gatherer?"

"Oh yeah, right.."

So it was like a dream, in a dream.

CRAZY!

Saturday, April 3, 2010

There are places i'll remember...

So this is really random but I had this Thailand memory today that I wanted to share with you.

We were all on a train. I forget where we were headed, but it was a full train so we all had to sit scattered around and sitting by strangers. I was sitting by a young Thai woman, and at first she seemed uncomfortable sitting by me. We sat a good 30 minutes staring in opposite directions and not making a sound. I started to feel hungry so when one of the food sellers on the train walked by I bought a bag of chips. I started eating and noticed that the Thai woman was staring at them, so I offered her some. She shook her head with a smile and turned to look out the window again.

Later in the train ride a person with fruit for sale walked by and the woman I was sitting by bought this weird looking fruit I had never seen before. It looked like it would be difficult to open but she had no problem with it. I turned to look around for people I knew on the train, when I felt her tap my shoulder. She had cut the fruit in half and was offering me half of it. I felt so happy in that moment. I shook my head and smiled the same as she did, and we both giggled and started communicating in hand gestures and objects.

The rest of the train ride was really neat and I showed her pictures in my Thailand book of places we were going and places we had been. She was really sweet and I loved sharing the ride with her.

That is one of my very favorite memories.