dreams

so, i don't normally remember my dreams...for too long, at least. though this is the case, i'm still thinking about two of my dreams from a couple nights ago. one is hilarious, while the other is completely romantic. I'm going to break this up and tell you about the first one tonight, and the second one tomorrow.....

The first, i shall call: Block Busting

In Block Busting, I'd borrowed a movie from a friend. Now, knowing exactly which friend it was might make this especially hilarious to the few who know him, and yet, I will keep that information confidential and I shall call him... Fritz. So, Fritz was borrowing a movie from Blockbuster, and I was at his house and apparently showed much enthusiasm for the film, so he let me borrow it. 

Specifically, in my dream, I was hanging out with my friend Caresse (no name alteration needed), at which point I turned to her and said, "Hey, I've been holding onto Fritz's movie for a while. I should return it." So, we get into Caresse's car and drive to Fritz's ritzy gated apartment complex.

Sidenote: In this dream, the setting was definitely in New York City. BUT, all the street names had L.A. street names: Los Feliz, Vermont, Griffith Park, Franklin, etc.

Anyway, so we get to the apartment and Caresse stays in the car. As I'm walking away, she yells "Hurry up! I need to get to work!" So I run, get to Fritz's door, and knock. His father opens. "Hi, Mr Fritz's dad, I'm Chiara, I'm returning this movie to Fritz." The funny part of this is that it was a VHS......set in 2011, don't worry. But a VHS. I borrowed a VHS from a guy who borrow a VHS from Blockbuster.

"Ah, I know...he told me about you," Fritz's dad says in a very misplaced, terrifying, and creepy country drawl. Shaking, I handed the video over to him and stood there, petrified. For some reason, there was a scanning machine attached to their door, so he says to me, "I'm going to scan this here barcode." In my dream, the date was June 21, 2011. The video was due on June 4, 2011. Knowing this, I was afraid Fritz's dad was going to kill me for returning the video late. So as soon as he scanned it, I ran like hell.

Good thing I did, because he ran after me! I ran outside the gates....Caresse left me because well I guess I took too long and she had to get to work, so I ran all over the streets, hid behind dumpsters, ran into stores, everywhere. 

Then I woke up for the first time that night, laughing.