Balancing on the Garden

1. Big Day Tomorrow

I am sleeping in my bedroom in the house of my parents. I go to bed, but my parents are still up and I hear them making noise, as they used to. Brother N is certainly in the house and sleeping.

Dark. I'm not really ready for bed, tomorrow is a big day. Parents are preparing, I need to catch sleep. I suppose the tomorrow event is the wedding of D.

I can't sleep. I stay in my room. I am even still dressed. I don't want to show me this late, if my parents see me I have to explain, I want to avoid that. Maybe a little fear, or rather shame. In my room I eat an orange.

The fact that I wear clothes makes it necessary to undress, even a jacket I was wearing.

At some point I face my parents, don't know what happens next, because I can't remember.

2. Coffee Tasting

(Fragment). I drink or at least sample coffee. There are different kinds, they are all in china coffee cups. Dark. One has white specks.

3. Stairway for Growing Plants

Bale and me are going on a weekend. We arrive at the place. There is a gathering of many people, they all look adventurous. They are all waiting. We are of the last ones to arrive. But everyone is still waiting for the camp leaders, who would be two people.

We sit in a room, in a circle. This is already the country side. Wooden building, one big hall.

We don't stay there. I can't remember what makes us move, either Bale and me, or the leaders who arrive, or something else. In any case, not the other members.

Then we are outside on the terrain. We take a train to get to a certain place. White and black one.

We arrive at a playground, it is getting dark, evening, late. People have brought their stuff with them, though I left mine in the hall, because I thought we were only going to explore. Now the idea is aired that we might as well sleep here instead of where we just came from. I look around. This is outside, nature. And on the playground is a wooden thing like you find on children's playgrounds. This is on a narrow lane, earthen, and the land continues down. I'm thinking that if it gets decided we sleep here, then we have to go back and get our sleeping bags back from the income hall. That is trouble, because in that case, the best places to sleep will be taken, so I decide to take the initiative and go to the best spot to sleep, Bale follows. This is underneath a wooden construction. Trapezium space. Two benches opposite each other, wood. One is larger, the other smaller. Bale goes lie down on the larger one, this fits perfectly. I lay down on the small one, but it is too small, so I try the floor, which is also wood, and still sort of inside something, I mean underneath the construction, like a camp. That works.

Other people see this, and so everyone starts looking for a place to sleep. I realize that I can only get my sleeping bag if everyone has found a place. Bale is comfortable. Two other guys join us. One goes for the bench, although it is small. The other one is bigger, fat, and lies down beside me. I'm not comfortable with that, but it can be done.

Later in the dream it is light, and people are up and about. We continue down the broad sand lane. Some of us have left earlier and are a long way ahead, among them Bale and a friend that she made. I found a friend too, and together we are much slower.

At some point we come to a construction that looks dangerous. There is a difference in level. The lane continues more than two metres lower. Where we are standing now looks like a roof. Square. Underneath is nothing. And it is shabby now that we want to get down. My friend is first, but he has not got the guts to jump, so it takes a while.

Right below us is a hole, dark, and a metal grill, but the openings are so big you can just fall through, so my friend does not dare to do anything. What happens is that the roof now also begins to balance and shake, so we have to keep our footing. In the meanwhile I inspect the whole situation. The girls are downstairs and looking at us. They've been there already a long time, no problem for them.

Then I think I see how they did it. On the left (on the right from the perspective in which I see the dream) is a stair like construction, made of boxes for plants, and tin cans or flat bowls, orange, for water. There is a whole series of these, on the right, and stair like. It is not really balanced, because they have no real support; And if I look well, I see that things are growing in the containers with earth.

But I don't care. I found a way, so I run to that side, which is the other side from where I'm standing, and descend this in one go. I get down easily. It is a little shaky, and you don't want to realize what you're doing while you're doing it, but afterwards it is okay. That is about where the dream ends, I think.

avocado= there were avocado's among the plants too. black ones, sometimes half.