Dreams (cross-post)

I have had a lot of weird dreams over the past ... well, mostly forever. The last few years have involved me being in a large liminal space (library, mall, bar-inside-an-airplane, hotel, etc.) and a lot of dreams about packing to go somewhere, usually overseas, but always on an airplane. 

 I have been on an airplane precisely TWICE in the past 8 years, to and from a getaway last February (2024). It wasn't a great experience, though the people-watching was great. I've turned into my mother in this respect--she loved to eyeball all the people in the airport. 

 Last night I was packing up to go home for the summer from college. Except I wasn't in a dorm; I was in the bedroom of our previous (nearby) house. And we drove (we meaning Sparky and me). Or rather we were driving. A lot. We had to go over one mountain to get to the town we were staying in (in Colorado), visiting distant (not-real) relatives? My sister and her husband were there; my brother called. [These "relatives" bore a sneaky resemblance to my neighbors across the street...) 

 Anyway. 

 To get on to our next stop, as we discussed, we had to go back over the mountain to meet up with another highway, and then go BACK OVER the SAME mountain on a different road to get to ?Denver? or wherever we were off to next. I thought this was ridiculous to have to go over the same mountain TWICE more. There's also a lot of road construction in my dreams. 

 I am pretty solid on what all of the disparate parts of this means to me, but I am thoroughly sick of all these wide-open spaces and endless walking/moving to and fro in them. Not sure I'm exactly ready for a cave or a dark hole in the ground, but please can I stop having to walk a mile to get across the fiction section of my library to get to the (not-real) space on the other side that looks like a big downtown atrium?? 

 The house is a disaster-zone, I have so many things to sort into boxes, so many possibilities of things to fill my time, so many phone calls I need to make, so many flowers I have to try to keep alive for a reasonable amount of time... 

 ...so I'm going to work instead today, because I already have off tomorrow and Saturday.