Chicken Salad

1. Five Braids

I am sleepy, just waking up, turn about a lot. I have longer hair than I have now in reality, and it bothers me, but it is strong and healthy, and I start braiding my hair, on the left side of my face, five strings. And I do this in my half sleep, so only half conscious about it.

2. Swinging Arms

I see a person. This is a lady, I don't know who she is. Older than me. The movements she makes look familiar. I guess she tries taiji. She swings her arms about in a rather violent way. Left. Right. Left. Right. It is one of the preparatory exercises we do. Something is off with the movement. (Swinging Arms is also a partner exercise from taiji, but it looks different).

3. A Day out with Ka

I am outside and ready to go. The day is bright and the streets are calm. And halfway on the country side. Hilly streets. I know my way. Day out. I have a picknick with me, I think that is what they told me to bring. There chicken in it, but still juicy. And the bowl I hold is plastic. It is the same I used yesterday for cooking, but I did not do chicken in the salad.

Can't remember well. I'm still in the house where I prepare the food. But also already on my way. The house is dark, empty of souls, and big, though just one floor. But Ka is also here, who is my colleague and is also going. She knows the way. But a little bit further in the dream, we are in a particular street and I recognize the house where we are supposed to go. Though, on my back are all houses stacked next to each other. It is a sunny day.

Here we meet Thde who will be taking us along (both are a residue from three weeks back when I went to the apple celebration and the band afterwards). I can't see our bicycles, but I think all is done on bike.

However, a little later, Ka and me find ourselves on a crossroads. Not very busy at all. Sloping street. Looks like Kessel-Lo maybe. And we are not there yet, but the beergarden just around the corner interests me, looks inviting. There are people sitting, gathering, eating together, in the sunshine. The place is lower than where we are. But we stand in the middle of the crossroads.

I do go down and join. Leave my big plastic bowl on the table and return to Ka, I think, to discuss where we will be going, what will be done. In the end I go back down, but I can't find the bowl with food, although I am still hungry. I had a little bit before, but not all (as I did yesterday). The garden is a sandy place and immediately on the left is a caravan and I look there on a small table or wooden stool to see if the bowl is there but it isn't (actually, writing this, this place reminds me of the parking lot, however small, of the taiji training hall; where I'll be going in five minutes). It is not on the table either and I have the feeling they cleaned it. Probably eaten it all first and then put it with their own stuff in the kitchen, because that's the kind of people they are. Sharing everything, but not taking note of what's what. So, I go inside and find a woman there, who is really friendly and has some wit about her. And she shows me. After I tell my story, she shows me where everything is. But the food has been eaten of course.

4. Chicken Pen
(PS)

I'm at my parent's place and at checking on the chickens. I am actually within the small fenced area. I can tell the chickens want out, so I have to be careful. (I did exactly this, this morning, when I went over).

DD1.
(daydream)
Bale on the table undressing, I can't let the chance go by and go in.

DD2.
(daydream)
I'm in my apartment, but the light is different. Two stages, the higher stage is like a platform for the bed. Two people are with me. One I don't see, who might be my guide, and the other one maybe Bale, a girl in any case. There are two cats. A small striped one, which is supposed to be mine (S). And another new one, who does not get along with that one. Then this latter is removed a new cat comes in, together with a different person I think, and this is a very big cat, and also red. We put her with the small one and she starts to lick the small one's fur immediately. They definitely go along well. Bale says to this: they go along better than the other two.