I’ve been reading fateaccompli’s dream journal and in so doing it’s forced me to be conscious of and give more thought to my own dreams. Over the past month, I’ve had one dream, exactly the same dream, three times. It’s about this person I know that clearly in real life I must need to talk to but who just seems to be out of reach. In the dream, I have something to tell him. I’m not exactly sure where we are or what it is I have to say, but he walks briskly away from me and never looks behind when I call for his attention. Finally I jog to catch up and surpass him, and I’m standing in front of him, and I ask him why he won’t listen to me. I see this look of disgust and hatred on his face that I had never seen him with in real life. He doesn’t say anything to me; he just glares and then spits on me. That’s when I wake up.

I also dream this other scene not really as a dream in and of itself but as a random fragment within other dreams about the same person. He says something to me (what I don’t know), but whatever he says isn’t complete. There’s more I need to ask him. I call him back, but it’s as if he doesn’t hear me. I follow him and call his name but he never turns around. I reach for his shoulder, but he’s never within my grasp. No matter how hard I try I can’t get through to him…