Thursday, October 9, 2008

dream #1?

I had the following dream around the middle of September.

Benjamin & I were at some kind of church function where the parents were one place & the kids were another. So mom & John were with the parents and me & Ben were with the kids. It was like I was significantly younger, like middle school or high school & Ben was a little older, like kindergarten or something. James/Danielle/Lawrence were not there. All of the kids were in a gym & we were playing volleyball or something, but our teams were made up of partners – Ben & I were partners, obviously.

When it came time to switch sides of the court, we went to the other side & all of a sudden it was an auditorium with rows of seats because I guess it was movie time. We were both placed on the front row, but apart from each other, I was on an end & he was in the middle. I was a little nervous that he would be scared away from me, but he did ok. I was allowed to go check on him after a while, so I went to make sure he was ok. He had marks on his cheek from falling asleep in the chair. He asked if there was somewhere he could lay down, so I picked him up & took him to the back where I guess all of the seats reclined because people were all in reclining chairs in the back. I placed him in the chair, got him set up with his blanket & drink & he said that was good. Then he said he was going to go to the bathroom really quick & I said ok & he walked out of the room into the hallway. I guess for some reason I felt confident that he knew where he was going, but then I realized that I didn’t know where he was going, so I walked out of the room, noticing a bigger recliner that was empty on my way out & making a mental note that I would give that to him when we got back because it would be more comfortable. Well, I couldn’t find him & started to panic a little.

At that time, the parents started filing into the hallways, filling them with so many people. I found my mom first & was trying to tell her that I didn’t know where Ben went & was looking for him, but I was losing my voice & couldn’t talk over the crowds. She was calm & started to look for him with me. Then John met up with us & he was young looking, like when he first came to America. He was happy to see me & asked about Ben. I told him through tears & hardly a voice that I couldn’t find him & he was angry that I had let him out of my sight. So then all 3 of us are trying to push through the jam-packed hallways looking for Ben.

I don’t know if this was the same sequence of the dream, but then I remember seeing a man pick him up, cross over to another hallway and try to get out of the building that way. He was running down the hall & I waited in a room just off the hall to cut him off. I knew it would really hurt, but I had to stop him, so I ran full force into him while he was running down the hall & stopped him & that was it.