Last Night's Dream

A restless and disturbed night for me, first time in a long time.

Went to bed at about 10:30, quite early for me. Here's the dream:

It was nighttime. I was in some sort of urban parkland, but lost. I could see that there were residences surrounding this "wilderness" but I didn't know how to get out or how to get home. It felt like a park in Brooklyn or Queens. Definitely not Manhattan.

Had a feeling of panic -- fear of the dark and what could be lurking in the bushes.

Called EVG on my cell phone, and he said he would come to find me and show me how to get home. I hunkered down where I was and waited, and when he appeared out of the brush, I could see that there were a couple of shadowy figures behind him. I couldn't see their faces but the shapes were female. He was partially in shadow -- I could just make out his face, and for the first time his size seemed vaguely menacing and dangerous to me.

At that moment a realization appeared in my head, as if written in the sky in lights: "You are one of many."

He held out a hand as if to help me, and I smiled, reaching out to touch his arm.

"Never mind," I said. "I think I can find my way home on my own."

As I turned and began to walk away, Mambo decided at that moment that he needed me to not be asleep anymore.

I woke up and saw that it was only 1:15 in the morning.

Spent the rest of the night drifting between half-asleep and wakefulness.

Doesn't take a shrink to figure that one out, huh?