Dream: Sara and I were returning from a road trip, from the south west. So we were driving towards Madison on 151, I guess. There was a bit of a traffic jam as we got close, but fortunately the dream morphed such that I was on my bike, biking past all the traffic. Part of me wondered how I was hauling a car load of camping gear on my bike.

Something was going on. I wanted to get to the other side of my elementary school, but the roads around it were all blocked off. Good thing I knew a shortcut that took me through the school grounds. And actually through part of the building, also. I did this on my bike, or maybe a motorized scooter or something. But outside the back door, I found myself in a rectangular fenced-in area along with a couple of security guards. Hmm. I guess this secret shortcut isn't going to work, after all. So I went home.

That last dream was interesting because while out on a walk last night I walked around the school, trying to remember the layout of the building. It's got an east and a west wing, which each have a lower and upper floor, but also east and west corridors around the central part, with the gym, the other gym, and the AP room. It's also got that sort-of secret upstairs area (secret in that I didn't know it existed until middle school, when I had music classes up there). And locker rooms. And probably some other things, like the kitchen behind the AP room. It's a bit clearer now, but at the time I was walking past I was getting it a little bit mixed up with parts of my highschool, which has a similar overall design (two two-story wings plus a central part, and also the two hallways around the pool and that secret upstairs gym, though in Memorial's case that's separate from the main central part with the library). I remembered that I have had many dreams about those buildings through the years (not so much about the people or activities that happened inside them -- I'm usually just inexplicably in the building, which is mostly empty, and trying to find a bathroom or something). And I wondered if all the consideration I was giving to the school building would trigger another dream about it.

In another dream, maybe a previous night, Moriah was visiting Madison for a while and spending some time with me. But I got all butthurt that she didn't want to kiss me and that put a damper on things. I knew it was dumb to let that sour the mood but I was having feelings.