1/8/08 Dream

I'm in the backyard of a house that i believe is my own. i have the key to the house in my hand - it's an odd looking key, not like a normal key. my sister is with me as is Baxter, and we go for a walk through the neighborhood. I look up the hill and see a new housing development just over the ridge - they're huge houses - bigger than mega mansions. one of them is being maneuvered into place - i guess they're built off site and trucked in. but the person driving this new one into place is not very good at his job, because he keeps lurching forward, with the house all swaying about on the truck.

so my sister and baxter and i wander off down the neighborhood. we walk through all sorts of streets, and eventually make our way up the hill to the new development of houses. i see the one house that was lurching along, still in the middle of the street. most of these houses are unfinished, and the one that has people living in it doesn't really look complete. there are people in there, but they're all hanging out in a room right by the front door - they haven't really gone inside. it's like they're living outside of their house - and i can see that the inside is cavernous. the unfinished houses all have these massive four car garages right in the middle of the house - most of the houses don't have their shell on, so i can see the framing and into the core of the house. and these garages take up so much space, leaving this huge empty cavern inside. i have to really scramble and crawl up an embankment to get up to this place, and am eventually driven off by a construction worker who says that i don't belong here.

my sister and baxter and i keep walking, and eventually come to an upscale hotel - we walk through it, and it's all modern and fashionable and very quiet. we get to the workout room and go inside. there are a few people here working out. my sister finds one of the machines and tries it out, but i see that there are windows here with shades on them, and pull the shades aside to see if i can see where i am. i've let go of baxter and have set my backpack down and unpacked it a bit. i don't really settle down into a workout though. finally the manager returns to the room and says that we can't stay here if we're not guests, and that we have to leave.

because i had started to unpack, i'm awkwardly carrying my stuff now. my sister and baxter and i are trying to find our way back home, but i just can't find our way - i have they key to the house, but i don't know where i live! i'm sure that when i see my house i'll know i'm home, but i don't even really know what it looks like. i have the feeling that i'm one or two streets over from where i want to be, but these neighborhoods are confusing and the streets don't seem to go where i think they should.

i eventually come to a really tight neighborhood and realize that as i walk further into the street, it's turning into a house. and as i wander through i'm finally in someones house. there is an older mother type figure in the house - she's pretty quiet. we get to talking and she says that she used to break dance. i ask her if she still knows how to do this, and she says yes. i'm excited - i say, well, could you teach me? and she says yes. i'm not holding onto baxter at this point, and i'm not sure where my sister has gone. baxter gets into one of the closets and is rooting around and i have to go pull him out. it's time to go but i'm still in the kitchen for a moment, and someone from the woman's family walks through, and i make a comment about her teaching me to break dance, and the woman give me a look like i wasn't supposed to tell anyone else about her past history of dancing, because it's her secret and she hasn't told anyone.