timothy's Journal: Dreams: Three more lucid ones, from 20100415-16

Dreams of last night:

Several (couch sleeping = lots of wakeup opptys), but only three linger, and barely:

1) at a birthday party in a small apartment, shared by several people I know. A new guy has just moved in, either college age or just out; he is trying to be a good housemate, and in doing so handily reorganized the refrigerator, which was great. What had been an awful mess, full of wasted food, became a fairly sparse, nicely organized area. The birthday party was a non-surprise party for Beth, but mostly it was just people hanging out in one of the two small dedicated bedrooms. (I think 4 or 5 people lived there, but space was tight.)

2) At a similar gathering, but in the east, with several family members as well as friends and others I didn't recognize. I realize we don't have enough snacks for everyone; my mom is there, and suggests making as appetizers salmon-omelet sandwiches, points out an unopened packaged of smoked salmon, and that sounds like a good idea, so I start gathering the other necessary ingredients, too. I only arrived to the apartment (not sure whose) that day, wasn't sure what was on hand or where it was stored.

3) I had become friends with an eccentric fellow; idiot savant might have been a good term. At the beginning of this dream I was spending time (restaurant? bookstore?) with this guy and another friend of his, who seemed to consider our mutual friend to have turned strange over the last few years. (Both of them were somewhat older than me -- late 40s or 50s, I'd say.) Though still on good terms, she seemed taken aback by his increasingly odd verbal behavior. We drove from wherever it was we had been hanging out to his home, several miles south. (Interesting, I know we were headed south, while remembering nothing else of the geography of the dream.) An example of his odd behavior: at an intersection, we pulled up behind a car that he recognized as a little known model of Saab; he started talking at length about its qualities and specs, noting the condition, likely market value, popular opinion of the car at the time of its release, etc. "Boy, I'd love to have one of these!" I was impressed, didn't know if he had that kind of knowledge stored up about cars generally, or just that kind. [Aside: I liked the car, too: Looked something like a Saab designed by F. Porsche; slightly bulgy and curvy in a way that I like in very few cars, like the Karma Ghia, the 911, etc. Leather interior, blue paint, slightly tinted windows. I think he said it was from the '70s.] His woman friend and I shared glances of understanding at some of his pronouncements along the way, too; we were planning to stay for a few hours at his house and help organize things (with his permission).