Dream

A few nights ago, 2 of my friends from high school were in my dream. I haven't seen either of them since we graduated, which was back in 1990. I only know what they looked like at age 18. And yet, in the dream, they were properly aged to look more or less the age we are now, which is 35 (in my case, either or both of them may be 36). One even looked to have gained a significant amount of weight.

Really, in a sense, the two people I dreamed about don't exist. There is a 2008 version of Jennifer, and a 2008 version of Tara, but I have no reason to believe that those people are anything like the 2 people in my dream. Of course, it's not uncommon for me to dream about people who don't exist. They're completely made up - fictional characters who have only ever existed in my sleeping mind. It's also not uncommon for me to dream about real people, either that I know or some celebrity/well-known person (in past dreams, for example, I once lived next door to Barry Manilow [he had a broken arm and so needed someone to play piano on his upcoming tour], and once shot heroin with Molly Ringwald*), but as far as I remember, it's always been the contemporary version of that person. As far as I know, this is the first time I've taken someone from the past and modernized them in my dream.

That's it. Not a big deal, just a little something that I'd never had happen before, and found interesting.


*True story. Those are both real dreams that I've had.