Sunday, January 1, 2023

2023 first dream - the Rube Goldberg Machine, and Lao Ye

New year dream

Dreamed I was part of some sort of survival videogame at first at a school. I had to obey some sort of girl on the second floor where since middle schoolers were living. 

Details hazy

At some point it became a dinner party at my mom's house. There were lots of uncles and aunties and for some reason there was a series of Rube Goldberg like contraptions which required Marbles. One course could expand over rooms and we lost the fluidity of the connected courses in the dining room

Originally using a fly in a car, captured by using a small electric fly zapper. The zapper nearly broke because it was shoddily made, orange and plastics and barely big enough to catch that fly. When we couldn't use this method any more, we basically switched to marbles and the puzzle master who was one of my moms karaoke friends had to reset the dining room course to marble optimization

Slight impatience and disrespect from my friends as the waited for the dinner obstacle to begin. I schooled the girl who was rude to me, whining "Hurry up bitch!" . Reminded her this was my house and I will not tolerate being spoken to that way.

Once it was ready, we sent off the marble and at some point the thing slowed momentum and needed a slight push. The puzzle master Auntie told me to sing halo by Beyoncé to get the marble moving. So I did, hitting the high notes and the marble was off again! 

After the obstacle I saw Laoye in the corner of the room. I went to dance with him, wrapping my arms around his neck. We had a conversation thusly:

I told him it was good to see him in my dreams again, but asked why he hasn't moved on yet. He remarked that he's waiting for grandma because he doesn't want her to be alone when she passes. I laughed, though concerned about how many more years that would take. He laughed too but seemed determined or resolute. I squeezed him tight. It felt like my wedding day and I was dancing with him. I could feel the swish of my wedding dress and the solidness of his body, shorter than me. 

I told him if he needs company, he can always continue to visit me until the time comes. He said, 好的好的!