2 dreams of 4

What's with all of the dreams lately?

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Friday night/Saturday morning, I had several dreams, but I'm remembering only one of them now.

I was attending a university. Some other stuff happened that I don't remember now. There was another student (a black man that I don't know in real life) who wanted to study with me for an upcoming exam, thinking that I knew the material. Surprise, I didn't! I was trying to distract him from his study goal, because I couldn't even remember in which building I had a locker where I kept my books, as if it was high school instead of college. Trying to picture the locker, I also couldn't remember the combination for the lock on the door. I knew this kind of self-destructive behavior was bad. It reminded me of the last time I had that kind of burnout, in real college. I had emotions about that realization/memory. Emotions are bad for thinking, so it woke me up.

I was awake about an hour before falling asleep again. I had 2 more dreams before I woke up to an alarm for work. I almost never have multiple dreams that I know about upon waking. I remember nothing about those extra dreams now, though.

Last night, I had another dream.

I was at some kind of theme park with Carl. We went through the entrance, picked up pamphlets about the park, and we went to an indoors exhibit. (I don't remember what it was.) We decided next for an outdoor exhibit, riding some elephants or something. As we left the indoor exhibit, Carl got a weird look on his face. I knew his AIDS drugs were bothering him again. He went off alone to the restroom to deal with either nausea or diarrhea. (Like he did during the Star Trek: Generations film we watched in the theater in 1994. I can always place the year we were dating because of this event.)

We went outdoors. I opened some other pamphlet and got caught up in reading it. When I looked up, Carl was in line for the animal ride with 2 other couples, 1 gay male couple and 1 lesbian couple. There were only 2 other people in line between me and them, and my group was waving me to join them quickly in line. I got into the queue, but by the time I walked through the maze, I realized there were a lot of people between us. I didn't want to "cut in line" since that's against the rules.

Eventually, I got up near the front of the queue. The 5 of them were seated as the next group in line to get on an animal. There was some sort of barrier between where they were sitting and the seats for the rest of us. I wandered around and found a back row somewhere to sit. I looked over, and I'm right next to their group, with no barrier between us. Carl is missing again, and I presume he found another restroom he needed to use. The others are waving me to join them. I dare to walk over to them and sit in an empty seat near them. I kept wondering how we would all fit, since each group had a limited number of spots to sit in the howdah contraption on the animal's back, and my presence now pushed them over that limit by 1 person. These were some kind of elephants, but huge dinosaur-sized ones, capable of seating 20 people at once. This waiting area was 3 or 4 stories in the air, to be at a level to step onto the howdah.

I napped briefly. When I woke up, their group was gone, and new people were seated around me waiting their turn for the animal ride. I knew I had missed them and wondered why they didn't wake me up. I thought I'd use my cell phone to text Carl that I was going to skip waiting for the ride, and I'd meet them outside this ride. I had emotions about that too, and emotions are bad for thinking, so I woke up.

I don't usually spend time thinking about people. It's unusual that Carl should show up again in my dreams.