Late for Class Again

1. Orc in the Way

We are playing a computer game, maybe playstation, watch what happens on the television. But we are sucked into it regularly, so that we become part of the scene. There is no distinction made between the real world and the game. It is all real.

There's a particular level that I can't get through. I try again and again, but it doesn't work. Dark, underground. There's an enormously big orc in the way. I am the one playing and having the controls. Every time I start over again, but I can't get passed this particular level.

There were different scenes, other than the orc. There was also a scene with Suske and Wiske and the whole bunch of them. I suppose my brother N was with me the whole time.

Effort type of dream. I really push forward, but I can't get through.

+1B. Cinema and Flight

I remember being in a cinema, and also outside of it. Other people with me, girl. And afterwards coming back to my rooms, which were in the back of a greater complex, maybe a school. The cinema was dark. The room light. I was alone, the room somewhat hovered, had no roof, other people had access to it too. Interaction with other people. Hiding, or keeping away. Green bushes, hedge. Can't remember precisely. It is a type of dream I have had many times before.

2. Broken Stairs

I wake up in the apartment of P&R. I've spent the night here. Some family gathering. Not their real place. This is an apartment in a building block, more like the one they had before.

It is morning but I still need sleep. So I turn around and wrap the sheets around me. I see the door is open, the second time I turn around. There is already some commotion. The elder people are already awake. Dohe certainly is. The door is a sliding door, and I consider getting out of bed to slide it closed. My bedroom borders on the living room, so if people are awake they might want to come in.

I don't get out of bed, because I see someone enter. It is Do2, the kid of P&R. He is still very small and running about by himself, opens the door a bit further and wants to enter. That is when Dohe comes after him and tries to make clear that I possibly still wants to sleep. His parents, too, are still asleep.

At this point I realize I have to get up anyway, because I have class today. It is taiji, and it is the new season, I have to be there on time, and it is still a long way to travel, and now that I think of it, it is already 11 o'clock so I'll be late in any case. So I start to hurry.

I go past my parents' place and leave from there. That is the next scene. Daylight, peaceful. I cycle the length of the street where my parents live. I have my stuff with me but I packed the wrong things. I got my badminton racket and so on with me, but that's not where I'm going. I keep it with me nonetheless. I remember I was in the garage when I put my bag on my back.

About at the end of the street (Na&Er's house) I see workmen. They have a van parked, and are taking lunch, sit down on the side of the street. They all wear the same uniform, a pale green. They are working on the street. They're three, which I think is a lot of people, I would only expect one or so.

The van blocks part of the view, but when I come closer I see two other people sitting a little further down the road, also eating something small on the road side. They're a bit higher up on a stone ridge or something. I pass them. They are two girls. I recognize both of them and I wave to the one that sits with her face to me. She smiles back, because she recognizes me too, in the dream I know who this is, but I don't know her in real life. The other girl is sitting with her back to me. This is Inro. I leave her be, because she does not see me. But when I get passed, already two meters away, I do turn and call out her name. The other girl smiles again. Then Inro turns and recognizes me. I say something small, and effectively turn back to greet her. I do that by taking her left arm in my hand and kissing her on the left cheek.

After that I'm on my way to badminton or taiji. Now I really have to hurry, and I do my best to cycle fast. This is when I turn right when I leave the street where my parents live, in the direction of Tildonk.

All the way I make my best effort knowing I'll be late, too late, and people will be waiting for me. At least some of them know I'll be coming for sure, so I hope everyone will still be there when I arrive. This piece is an effort type of dream. Which means that I'm really slower than I want to be.

At the traffic lights I turn right towards Tildonk. And that is when the streets start to change. The environment changes face constantly. There are streets and houses everywhere. I remember the way very good and I know where to go, but it changes constantly, so I have to redirect constantly. It goes well, though it is disorienting, until I get where I should get, and this is a dead end.

In fact, I am happy, because I did find the place through the maze. I enter the premises. It is an empty building, ruined. No roof, no more floors either. Weathered. And I have nowhere to go. Then I see stairs, and they lead up, like a spiral stairwell, only there are no walls. The stone stairs are build along the outer walls. There's also piles of rubbish lying about. I look up. I should be able to get to the top. I'll manage, so I try.

But the stairs are broken and parts are missing.
This is a lucid part of the dream. I climb up the first stairs on the east wall. They are broad. The other stairs are on the south wall and even start in the south west, I don't know how to get there. There's lots of plastic rubbish that clings on the stairs. It gives an impression of carelessness. I get on the other side somehow. How I traverse the wide gap, I don't remember. Then, up high a scouts boy appears from the top from over the edge of the building and hails. He asks what I'm doing, because clearly it does not make sense. But because he's there, I can get easily to the other stairs up until the end, where the roof should have been.
He is still young, his name is Klaus and he makes clear this is not the right way. Possibly he gives directions. Anyway I follow him down and then wherever he is going, because apparently he has to meet up with friends somewhere. I follow, thinking that this may help me.

At last we arrive in a more busy part of the city, metropolis. The contrast is telling between the earlier deserted streets. We are inside a building which is a library or a bookstore and at the same time a cafe. There's a buzz of people and a nice cosy atmosphere. Lots of wood. Different floors, big spaces, an open corridor on the side. We are near the entrance.
He meets his friends, they are a girl and two boys, all his age. Teenagers. They have lots to tell each other. I'm not really part of it. I don't really know what to do next. Are they going to help me. I believe this is more or less the end of the dream.
I did remember a part of the conversation, but not anymore. There was a particular question, though a very normal one. Can't remember.
+ Ah yes, Mengmettaal was mentioned in the conversation. A poetry club. Actually a 'dead' poet society, because the society does not exist any longer. I think the girl asked me something about it.

3. Happy Return

Different dream. When I get back I enter a hall, light, and at the other and at a table sits Inro, which surprises me, but it makes me happy. Her same friend is sitting there with her. I don't have to think long, I go sit with them. End of dream.