Yes, twas a dream.

Here’s a dream that I had last night. I’ve changed the character names to keep them faceless.

1 - I think it was St. Patrick’s Day or at least all my stuff was green.  Everyone was also wearing some sort of green apparel.  My locker was full of green mugs, a green flannel, and a back pack.  Even though this place was carpeted, the room contained benches similar to those in changing rooms, and had a laundry sink.  I’m assuming that it was originally a gym locker room that was transformed into a hallway.  When entering the room via the cafeteria, my locker was located on the left side, third locker in. My friend, Kim, had her locker stationed on the right side two lockers away from that laundry sink (I think that she appeared in this dream because, yesterday, I was having lunch with my grandparents showed them some pictures from my GAP year. Kim was in a few of those pictures).

2 - After everyone had put their belongings in their respective lockers, the scene shifted outside.  The entire class was taken to a really, really beautiful grassy field with a giant sycamore tree located in the center.  The sun was blazing so bright; she should have had our sunglasses on.  Oh, I forgot to say, there was one more person that I was able to distinguish in my dream: Ray (I’m almost sure that he made an appearance because he called me yesterday asking me for a cure for his itchy tongue).  He was roughly the same size as me and the same build too.  The teacher instructed us to choose a partner of the same sex, size and strength; so, naturally I chose to pair up with Ray. We were then told to get into two long lines, one partner on each side, and to line up across each other. Each pair was assigned a number which, when called by the instructor, indicated that the designated pair had to play the game. Kim was also on the field but was located much further down the line. I tried to get her attention but she just looked blankly as if she didn’t see me jumping and waving my arms.

Anyways, Here’s how the game worked (it does not make much sense now that I think about it):  when a number was called, the assigned pair would take three steps back while counting to three; then, on three, they would charge at each other then start wrestling the other to the ground.  Maybe it was some sort of Spartan training plan. I have no idear.  When my number was called, Ray and I got into a very lengthy match that began drawing the attention of the rest of the class. Eventually, the teacher broke us up because we were taking too long and he wanted to give other students a chance to scrap (I don’t really understand why pairs couldn’t fight simultaneously. Maybe the teacher only wanted to deal with one pair just in case someone actually got hurt).  Once our fight was brought to a halt, the scene shifted to a really small yoga class.

3 - The room was very dark and yet one able to see most of it because of the light produced by some tiny torches that were lodged into the walls.  There were yoga mats lined up against the walls: the area for one’s head faced toward the wall while the area for one’s toes faced the center.   By this time, the class really shrunk; the amount of students probably reduced from 50 outside to 10 in this room.  Kim was also in this scene yet she still didn’t realize who I was.  This activity was run by a guy that looked quite evil.  He had these mini horns, lacked a shirt and had the legs of a goat (I’m guessing that this creature was seen in my dream because last night I was reading “The Horse and His Boy;” they just introduced Mr. Tumnus; additionally, I think his evil characteristic came from a recent discussion I had with my mom about spirits). He was also equipped with an insincere grin and was really overweight and sweaty.  The game that we played also did not make much sense to me. Here’s how it was played. Everyone was lined up standing with their heels against the base of their respective yoga mats. When the faun shouted, we’d all fall with our backs onto the mats. While lying down, he would yell out something else and we all had to, in one swift motion, shift our bodies in such a way that we were still kind of lying down but it would prepare us to jump back up (it’s hard to imagine but I know you can do it!).  It was really hard to keep this position yet we were told to hold it while the faun’s minions placed screen doors on us (I have no idea as to what the purpose was but I was playing this game a couple of days ago, called “Plants vs. Zombies,” and one type of zombie walks with a screen door in front of him).  After every student received their own screen, the teacher would yell once more and we had to lunge ourselves back to the starting position.  Most students weren’t able to bring themselves back to the standing position so that teacher gave up and told us that he was ending class.

1 – We returned back to the original hallway, with the lockers and the carpeted floor, yet this time it was populated by a younger grade.  Kim and her friends were still at their lockers yet they soon left to go outside.  As they were heading out, I told myself to go and say hi but I was paralyzed by fear. Since she did not acknowledge me in the first two classes, I assumed one of two things: that she didn’t actually know me or that she was actually mad at me.  I sat on one of the benches in that locker room and waited until everyone cleared out.

 Then I woke up. Gah!