Dream Girl

Ha! I knew that title would get your attention!

Seriously, I had a strange dream last night that really got me thinking. I have to preface it before going into it though.

Over the past several years others and I have had eerily real dreams of seeing me with the girl I supposedly marry someday. There are too odd factors that tie all these dreams together. One, the girl always has dark hair, like nearly black. Two, her face is never seen. The weird thing is people I know, but don't talk to on a regular basis have come up to me and told me they had a dream like this about me, and they never know that I've had similar dreams, or that others have had similar dreams about me and this mystery giril. Heck, one of them had the dream about me and the girl in the car I really want and hadn't told them about.

I haven't had one of these dreams, nor heard of anyone else having one in quite some time...until last night.

I was up late last night because I couldn't sleep. Then finally I got really comfortable and fell into a pretty deep sleep. Then the oddities began.

Suddenly I found myself at a camp or retreat of some sort. There were about eight of us sharing a room, three guys, five girls. That alone is odd because I've never shared any room with a girl in my life. The guys slept on the floor and the girls slept in bunkbeds. The only other person I recognized in the dream was my cousin, who is the same age as me. The other guy seemed familiar, but I couldn't place him. The girls strangely all had dark hair and were very attractive. Some of them had traits I recognized from girls I know. but one was different. And guess what? I never saw her face.

I could tell she was attractive though. So anyway, the dream kind of jumped to all of us in the room watching TV, and for some reason I was sitting behind the girl whose face I couldn't see with my arms around her and she leaning back against me. We said nothing, just watched TV.

The dream then jumped to us all doing several things together I don't recall. Then back to the TV watching and cuddling once again.

The dream goes through this sequence one more time, but something different happens this time. The girl I'm holding suddenly turns her head towards me slightly, but not enough that I can see her face, and asks me why I hold her like that. I say, "Why, does it bother you?" She says, "No, not at all. It's just that you don't know me very well, if at all." So I reply, "It just feels right...comfortable." or something like that. She then says again that we don't know each other very well, and I say, "Then let's eat together today and get to know each other better." She says that's a great idea, and even though I can't see her I know she is smiling. She then cozies up against me again.

So meal time comes and we're in a cafeteria of sorts. All the girls are sitting together with a few others and the two guys are at a different table with some other guys. I go up to the counter to get my food and for some odd reason get held up talking to the lunch lady, who is young and not like your typical lunch lady. By the time I get to the table she's gone. I had missed her, they told me. So with a heavy sigh I go on with my meal to the guys table.

Later in the day evidently we had arranged to hang out together, but I again got held up talking to someone about something I don't remember. So when I finally do find her she says I missed both meetings and she seemed very sad. I answered, "I got foolishly held up. It won't happen again." or something to that effect. Then I woke up.

That dream baffled me all day today. Then I got to thinking about it and repeating what I had said out loud. "I got held up. It won't happen again". Man, talk about some light bulbs going on. I could get all symbolic with this one, but I'll spare you and let you draw your own conclusions.

Suffice it to say it got me thinking and it gave me an oddly warm feeling inside that hasn't yet subsided.

B-Out