Make Your Mark

 I dreampt about a man and woman lying in bed at night.  The woman was sick and it was hot in their ground floor apt in a rundown tenement.  The setting was a slum area with stone streets. The couple had the door open with the screen latched but she woke up during the night sure she heard someone try to force the door. She got up to look out the screen and she saw a man in a hat walking down the lane just outside the lampost light. She watched him step into each doorway and tinker with something before moving on.  She woke again later and though it wasn't dawn, there was too much light outside.  She saw that the city was burning.  The woman woke the man and they ran out of the city up onto a hill.  Later it was revealed that the man in the hat was pretending to be the gas meter inspector but instead of marking down how much gas each family used he was opening the valve and letting the gas fill as many homes as he could.  The man forged the signature of the real workman who couldn't write but used magic calligraphy to mark the paper with stitches in the form of a tiny grasshopper. 

MTA

Some context, over the weekend I fell asleep outside at a festival while listening to The Drab Irish Band play the song MTA which might be better known by the Kingston Trio.  A few days later I had this dream.

I dreamt I was at work and I had clients to see but I needed to shower first.  My job was in a massive vacation complex that was a planned city with an amusement park, a variety of houses, and restaurants and was whole autonomous from the outside world. It might have been physically separated from other cities by a dome of some kind. The schedule was very chaotic and the whole time I was trying to get ready my boss was explaining all the time slots.  None of this made sense as we had a lot of new staff that couldn't be booked the way she had them. I grabbed all my gear and started walking from the showers to my job which was upstairs and across a walkway but I dropped some of my stuff and started sliding on a moveable walkway that shuttled me to a series of tunnels that also had movable walkways.  I couldn't get back through the door I had come through so I had to get on a monorail that operated in the tunnel that I think was only for staff. AT this point I knew I was going to be very late for work. The train would pass by windows so we could see the city outside.  Sometimes the train would run on an elevated track around the city.  the only way to get back to my stop was to ride the train all the way around the course back to my original starting point.  There didn't seem to be a way to communicate from outside the train so I couldn't tell my boss I was going to be late.  Time didn't seem to be moving consistently as we were on the train into the night and the train emerged on the elevated track just as the sun was rising over the water inside the city.  I don't think I could see outside the city so maybe the ocean was part of the vacation city grounds? At one point it felt like we were getting closer to our starting point but then the train never stopped to let anyone off or on again.  I realized that the time between the last two stops on the train at been over a month and I woke up in panic knowing I couldn't really leave the train. 

Rats!

I dreampt I was in my childhood bedroom.  I was asleep and my feet were sticking out from under the covers.  As I slept a white rat came and bit my feet repeatedly.  In the dream, I woke up but the rat continued to follow me and bite me.  I then woke up to my real life but at first, I could not move or speak.  As I lay there I feared the rat would be real and would bite me for the third time that night.

That same night I dreamt my teeth were falling out but as they did each tooth was revealed to be ornately carved like ivory. 

I dreampt I had a pair of rhinoceros in my house, a mother and son. The mother was full grown but the baby rhino was the size of a kiwi fruit.  We had to move the rhinos to lots of different rooms and whenever I went in the room to get them the baby rhino who ram my hand a few times before biting me repeatedly. 

Foundation

I was in a house with a garage underneath that you could access from either the front or the back of the home so it was like the house had an underground drive-thru.  In the garage, there were two black cats the size of martens who were fighting. It made me think of how Merlin saw dragons fighting under the foundation of King Arthur's castle in progress. (I read this in Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy) The fighting causes the structure to constantly fall down.  I worried about the house until I woke up.  

I dreampt I invented a filter for car windows that worked as a photo filter.  The filter used a search tool to look for images from the same year the car was made.  If you sat in the car the filter would put a glamor on you to update your appearance to a particular year so your clothes, hair, and makeup were historically accurate. For some reason, I didn't sell the technology but I just applied it to more and more vintage cars that I kept in my driveway.