Two non-lucid dreams about rain in the last three nights:
Last night I was at my godmother's house. I think it was bulldozed like IRL but maybe not. I was in the backyard, overlooking the big slope down to the creek. There was a cat. I descended a little, unsteady, to greet the cat (I met a friend's cat recently!!). It was off though. It hissed a little. It was tiny but it paced like a tiger. I noticed that patches of fur were missing, the poor thing was sick. Sick and dangerous. I spoke to it, and backed away, but the wet slope was slippery. I suddenly felt oddly afraid. I was in mortal peril, but there was some reason I was safe? [I didn't quite realize I was dreaming]. I tried to pull myself up the mud, but I couldn't, and my rib twinged in pain from a real-life bruise. The cat came closer and I warded it off with words and halfhearted kicks. I didn't want to hurt it... and I didn't, I woke up to thunder.
Three nights ago. I was navigating my birth city but in a torrential downpour. I was supposed to meet up with my dad, but certain things didn't work out. I grabbed the back of his car and skidded along the ground for a while, along the wet highway, then stood and beheld the knees of my khakis. Perfectly fine, somehow. I began bounding through the rain, weightless, almost swimming along the highways. I was lost and a little lonely, but I felt okay.
I sheltered for a little while in a dark house belonging to my mom. There was a computer, the only light. I typed a brief message, letting people know I was fine. I freshened up a little, but I couldn't stay. It was creepy with no one there, and I didn't belong there. I reentered the storm and was embraced by the rain, warm and comforting and dizzying.
I was back in college. No, I had returned to college. I was in a computer lab, again. All the computers were strange, and all the young adults were doing their modern things. But I still did okay, and I fixed at least one computer.
Didn't do my homework, though.
And I stayed there too late, deep into the night, unwilling to go home.
I woke up, in a dry daylight. In a corner of the university campus, on a thin camping mattress under the sky. What had I been dreaming about...? The semester hadn't started yet, so what was I doing here? I gathered my belongings but I was so confused.
I think I woke up, for real, but was intensely confused. I didn't remember my room. I didn't remember my *life*. Then my phone rang- my dad's wife. "No, no, I was awake... oh, tomorrow's a little sudden... we'll see..."