1. Shopping in the Supermarket
Closing time and I go to the supermarket, which is called Match, because it is closest to me and this one is underground. I thought I had time enough, but when I arrive I see they are closing the doors already, I squeeze through, through the small slit, staff is closing the doors and in the way. I manage to get through and somehow get down, descend the stairs or escalator. I am down before I know it.
I am surprised to see so many people still shopping here. I get a basket, but at the entrance of the shop proper I tell the people of the shop there, two women, that I have a bag with me from another shop. In fact, I had already bought two things in another shop but thought it too little food, so I thought of buying two more things here. This is what I do and I know exactly what I want. I already have the croquettes. So I leave my bag here, which is from SB. A very big bag, and it is soft, something large and soft takes a lot of space in the bag. The bag is the largest size, so it stands out. I hand it over, the women are not used to that, which means that I should not have done it, but it is alright. Then I enter the shop hands free.
I look for the two more things I need, one is again something in the freezers, because I want something deepfried. I walk a little about in the shop as if I'm lost. Before I know it I find myself at the check out, many people are queuing and that in different rows. I did not even realize the checkout was this way, I am rather disoriented. For a moment I don't know what to do, but I end up there again whichever way I go, so I go to the checkout and call it a day. The shop will close anyway.
When it's my turn I see that I have quite a lot more things with me than I anticipated. In my enthusiasm I bought many things. I don't worry about it. I am at the counter, and people queue up behind me. Because I have a lot of stuff, it takes a long time. I have my bag ready for everything that the person at the till scans and gives me. Everything has its place. It goes rather slow, but I don't mind. I don't mind the people waiting. Also, now my brothers appear, they queue up and look at me with something in their eyes that tells me they don't know what I'm doing or why, they have questions, especially N.
When it's time to pay I take my card and put it in the machine, which is high. The price is given on a display above it. I'm not sure the price is right, but I don't care. I insert the card, it is my old card, blue. But some herb like parsley is in the way, and I squeeze the card in anyway, so that some herb fluid smears my card and the inside of the machine. I'm not sure I should take the green away first and try again but I leave it as it is. The display is aware of the squashed green and it says so on the display, fluid detected.
When I finish I collect my bag.
There was another dream before this one that I remembered first, but now I don't.
The feeling was one of bliss, or joy or happiness, always present in the background though there was no reason for it. But this is the reason why I record the dream, because two days ago, this feeling came to me when I lay on the sofa, and entered some kind of meditation. Since then it seems I have access to something new; some more consistent feeling of trust or bliss.
ReplyDeleteThat day I went to the supermarket with Chwe, she had something with her she bought there earlier, still in the shopping bag. But I told her there is no need to show it to the person at the till, which was fine.
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