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Well That Was Weird (S&D)

by Anonymous
(Stanford, CA)

So my dream was that I was in this huge factory and I was in the future so everything was high tech. The only thing you could see in the factory were these stairs that went up as far as you could see. The stairs were just these purple circles oscillating in the air and people would jump from circle to circle to get to the very top. There were all these women in purple suits with brief cases that kept coming in to the room and going up the stairs.


I was suddenly at the top of the stairs and I was reading all of these books and comic strips for a research paper on women and factories. My two friends threw a comic strip at me and were like "Read this now! Isn't it hilarious! Best comic I've ever read." The comic was just one big picture of a husband and wife lying in bed and the husband worrying that the neighbor was going to come in and see them. I didn't really understand why the comic was so funny, but I still laughed and pretended I thought it was hilarious. Then my boss (who happened to be my history teacher from 8th grade) came in and kept telling me to take my bracelet off and then as soon as I finally got my hand out of my bangle bracelet, she told me to put it back on. I did this 6 or 7 times.

I woke up from my dream right when I was trying to put my bracelet back on for the 7th time. When I woke up, I realized that my bracelet wasn't on my wrist and that I was holding it in my right hand and that in real life, I was also trying to put the bracelet back on...

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