snapshots of our life.

I had the craziest dream last night and I wanted to write about it before we got our showers and left to see my dad in Bogart.  We’re going to the nursing home today to visit my grandfather. 

Anyways, in this dream I was apart of a research study.  It was about which lives would be spared in a natural disaster or in my case, the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001.  And how the news (of whether your life was “taken” or spared) would effect you. We were in this building to re-enact it.  And for some unknown reason everyone in this study didn’t know anything about the WTC plane crash and what happened.  We went into it totally naive and with a clear mind.  In this building we were asked to pick a room and get to it as quickly as possible because something horrible is about to happen and you have to pick a spot for “safety”. 

Along the way as I was scrambling to find a room (with thousands of people also doing the same thing) I came across all these “obstacles”.  An elderly woman who had fallen.  Things like that.  And I meet a certain group of women that I kinda stick with through the whole thing.  In picking my room, I did like I do when I pick a dressing room in the store, I go the farthest one in the back.  So instead of just picking the one that’s right there next to me, I scramble to get to the one in the very back of this hallway. 

Once we get in the room there was this waiting period that was horrible.  Agonizing.  (Which may be what people really go through in situations like this, I don’t know.)  We’re strapped into these stadium like seating that move.  And over the intercom someone says “you picked the wrong room”.  And the floor drops out from below us and we fall like we’re on a freaking ride at Six Flags.   I cried the whole way down, and woke up crying in my sleep.

What the heck?  Tell me why I’m dreaming about things like this.  It was so detailed and normally I can’t remember half of what I dreamt about when I wake up in the morning.  In this dream I felt like I was there. Nuts. 
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Just wanted to get that written down.  I need to go get ready.  Happy Father’s Day!