Scottish Shepard

1. Dogs and Pups

We're in the car and driving. Dark. Mother in front, maybe driving, can't remember. I sit in the back, on the left. Brother N is on the right (It used to be the other way around).

At some point we are leaving for home. Light. There is a dog behind me from the trunk possibly. It is still a pup and happy and belongs to my brother. He comes on my left and wants attention, but for the moment I recognize him being there but don't touch the animal, I am cautious. I ask what kind of dog it is. My mother starts to answer. Both she and my brother give an explanation. N has two dogs, and they are very different, so he says both races, and I don't know any of them. I forgot the name. One was a Scottish Shepard. The other sounded like Mastice. Not mastiff, I think it rhymed on 'armistice'. We drive by the landscape, I enjoy the scenery.

They also say he is still young and you can see that because he does not come with his bottom above the fence, and the kind is meant that is built in Scotland, those of stone, that mark plots of land.  And I am thinking, but this dog is bigger than that, but of course now he is in the car, and if I compare him from this perspective to the outside fence I see, then it is only natural that it looks that way. Still, I'm not sure.

Then I decide to pet the dog on the head. I do that quite a while. There is a safe spot and a type of touch that the dog can stand. Then he stays happy and does not get wild. Though I would normally touch in another way, but I know this will make the dog wild and running about, we can't have that in the car. In the end I stroke the dog in that way anyway, and the dog jumps to the fore and starts to run, becomes very active. N has to keep him in check.

When we get home, my mother and brother know the way very well, but I have forgotten this place. Light, sun. Day. Behind the house is a small stroke of land and that is where the chickens were. Now they made room for the dogs, who are halfway this narrow piece of land. I am surprised so many dogs are around. And many very small new born pups. I knew I could expect more dogs than they had told me of, but so many I had not expected.

They are all grey, as if they are made of stone, and they are very still. Two or three grown up dogs, all the others are very small. About a dozen. Two different families, the dream zooms in, or my attention is going to the second family farthest of where I am standing.

There is a garden, and fields, the wild, uncultivated.

This nest has five pups. And two more, of which one is dead and another is as good as dead. This startles me, but I keep my balance. Then they explain they leave them there and I think that is a good idea. They leave them there because the big dogs might just eat them and in that case they don't have to clean the mess. But I can see that these two have been lying about for too long already and they will not be touched anymore.

2. Did Not Tell

Something about the urgency and neglect of warning Siph, a friend in London we haven't seen for a long time. I should have warned him. Now it is too late. But I can't remember what the dream was about. Just this feeling, a very long time. Bale is here too. There is certainly something we should have said to him but we didn't.

Inla also here?

3. Secret Kitchen

We are visiting D and his wife, but we are in the home of Soro's parents, and they are there. Her sisters too I imagine.

At a certain moment I go to the kitchen and I see G&J sitting there. The dining room is one big room, with a table on the right. When I enter the kitchen this area is dark and both are hidden, as if they are not to be see, and are illegally here. I see G first, sitting at the table, on a chair, in the shadows. Then I look to my right and see J as well, he sits on the window sill or something like that, his feet dangling. Maybe sits on the radiator, in the dark. They are silent, separate, and I don't know what to say. I think I just entered a secret part of the family of Soro and was not supposed to see this. I am alone here. I can't remember why I had to go to the kitchen.

Before that a lot more happened but I don't remember.

It takes a while before G&J recognize me. I go back.

Then we all cross the dining room to the other end, which is where the food is served, and Soro's father has made sure to impress us and the food is Indonesian. Many different dishes. My father is certainly here.

(This was maybe an earlier dream).

4. U Shop

Light, very spacious shop, where we work, but very different from the real life one. This is on one level only, and has a funny structure. Digr and Keva are having fun and are busy. I have no clue.

I'm busy in one section only. I don't know the other half. At a certain point rather late in the dream, but I can't remember the rest, I am shelving books, but they are all about sex. While I walk around with this, Digr makes a remark about it, to be funny. I ignore him. Keva follows his example.

There was something with food too. A big table. And maybe guests, though certainly for a long time the shop is empty but for us three. And so it is when this dream ends, although we are then in another section, more in the centre. This dream was fairly lucid, but I didn't catch it when I woke from it.