DREAM CROSS PROMOTION DREAM

Going back to the first thing written on this blog. A dream about wanting to ditch a church trip (I used to go on them in high school and wasn't happy and would rebel against the youth pastor, smoke pot, cigarettes, other fun stuff)... Again I'm on a church trip and the leader wants to keep me in line. We're in a big room and he's passing out papers for what seems like a test. The room is cold and boring and stuffy and suffacating, liken to an Orwell novel. I'm next to my friend Curt and Curt brings up how I'd wanted to escape the first time. That is, he brings up that dream I'd written down: the plan was to not go hiking up a big mountain but instead stay back with the locals and party in the river. This rarely happens and I had to write down that one dream was mentioned in another.

Well during this particular story, a weird thing happened, even for a dream. My nephew (who has had trouble with drugs in his life) goes up in front of the group and is tying to tell them to quiet down... The youth pastor, arms folded, is watching proudly (when he's not turning around making sure I don't act up) and I realize my nephew's about to give a sermon. Nervous behind the old wood pulpit, he's trying to tell people to quiet down so he can start, but is having trouble. And then, heavy metal music plays, and I walk up towards the front of the room and my nephew is playing air guitar. I'm embarrassed for him. This is some kind of bizarre performance art thing: but people, especially all my friends (people are added now that weren't there before), are into it. "Beats a boring sermon," says someone.

Before all this happened, when the pastor was passing out the papers and Curt and I were sitting there discussing our plan to escape, I remember a moment of clarity hit me and when Curt mentioned we should steal a van to head home, I said, "No, we can't do that. We will simply learn from this and never go on a church trip again." Then I said, "You went to prison" (which he did in real life for selling acid) "and you, of all people, know we just have to wait this out. We've been here longer than the time we have left."