Weird dreams of social justice and gender

ugh...i didn't sleep well last night.  i blame the increasingly hot weather.  opening the window only did so much to relieve the stifling air, and at that point i was already doomed to have an unsatisfying sleep.

i awoke for the second time around 10:30-11am with strange dreams on the edge of my vision.  i dreamt i was on a school bus on a field trip somewhere in indiana, but also in pennsylvania.  we drove past this forest retreat/rest stop on the way up... which was fortunate because when we got lost on the way back, we somehow found it and were able to orient ourselves.

speaking of which, somehow a social justice blogger on etsy decided that the *verb* 'orient' was a racist slur.  my dreams are special, what can i say?  she proceeded to flag/block my tarot card bag for sale because she didn't like my grammar either.  and there was one other thing that she was blatantly wrong about, but i forget at the moment.

back to the forest and the field trip.  apparently this forest in indiana was 3 days away from home.  we had too many male chaperones and one of the female teachers was just waiting for the testosterone to become too much and for a fight to ensue.  apparently there had already been some shoving.

after my pee break, i re-boarded the bus and found an envelope from a friend in pa.  it was those best friend hearts that were big in the 90s.  instead of necklaces though, these were earrings.  i decided to keep the pair with the blue gemstone and give him the pink.  i feel like this might be significant as he's been exploring the idea that he might be transgender.  he's not someone i see very often because of the distance, so i find it interesting that he would suddenly appear in my dream, even as just an envelope.

Waves and quakes

I had a dream that some sort of seismic shift was about to happen... so our boss got us out of the high rise and loaded us all up in a bus to start driving us to the safe building he had rented out ahead of time in preparation.  As we were heading toward the marina, I screamed at him, "are you nuts?!". I explained that the two story waves happening now were nothing compared to what would be coming after the big earth shift.  I told him we needed to drive to the interior of the land mass.  Thankfully he listened to me and gave the driver the instructions.  The bus was speeding inland while waves crashed around us when my alarm clock woke me up.  All I could think was, "god, what a dumbass."

Awake

I woke up this morning to a female voice calling my nickname in my right ear.  My sleep addled brain managed a "what?" and something else in reply before I opened my eyes, regaining full consciousness.  I rolled over to find that my boyfriend was not there.  I laid in bed for quite some time before venturing down the hall.  The cat greeted me, but the boyfriend had already left for work long before the voice had awoken me.

door hinge

I received a call from someone I hadn't spoken to in a while.  It was a good conversation overall, but it dredged up some painful memories.  That night I had a rather vivid dream.  I was over my friend and her fiance's house eating oranges.  But tiny little bugs started crawling out of the orange slices, and then out of the other food as well.  I was remarkably calm in the dream even though I was intensely grossed out.  I feel like this dream might be more than too much pizza before bed... but I'm not sure how to interpret it other than the obvious - "bad", "decay", "ruin", most likely in regards to the phone call.

anam cara

I met a very special person on Oct 1st. 

That night I dreamt of this person.  He was wearing a Claddagh ring with a green stone that matched my celtic knot ring.  We were both wearing our rings on our left ring fingers.  I remember explaining to him that if the ring pointed outward it meant he was single, and if it pointed inward it meant he was married.  He flipped the ring inward and outward a few times, but I don't remember which way it ended up before I awoke.