An Unusual Dream

Right. So just as I was feeling all philosophical/medatative before, I am now suddently flooded with the memory of a recent dream of mine. Bizarre. Strange. And maybe not something I should be writing about. But oh well, here goes.

We've all heard the familiar expression, "She/he/I shit a brick." Indeed. Well, my dream begins with me in a public restroom (oddly my elementary school restroom captured in strangely accurate detail) and I am staring into the white ceramic toilet bowl and what appears to be a brick. And by brick I mean a brick. Not a brick of shit, but a real brick. Bricks to make houses from. Even though the actual "release" of this brick was not included in my dream I simply knew upon seeing this red brick sitting in the toilet bowl it had come from me. The rest of the dream was me trying to somehow dispose of this brick, being that I obviously couldn't flush it. I was running around my elementary school trying to figure out what to do with the brick in the toilet and how to get rid of it before anybody found out. For some reason I was extremely disgusted and embarassed by this brick. I was desperate to dispose of it. An annoucement was made over the school intercom that a brick had been found in the bathroom and that whoever was responsible would be discovered and punished.

In the end I somehow diposed of the brick although I don't quite remember how. I just remember waking up feeling extremely satisfied and relieved that the brick had been destroyed.

Since it is probably the oddest dream I have ever had (which is saying a lot because I dream almost every night) it sort of stuck with me. I was talking about it with my friend in Minnesota.... and low and behold we notice a Dream Interpretation book sitting on the table in front of us. Random, no? So we read it and it says that a brick in a dream:

"indicates unsettled business and disagreements in love affairs."

And we started laughing hysterically. "So," my best friend said through chuckles, "in this dream about the brick...were you quite literally putting your unsettled business behind you?"

We enjoyed a good laugh and as I wiped tears off my face I decided that yes... indeed. In my dream I had symbolically put all of this shit behind me. And while it was a challenge to dispose of it, and much to my horror people were whispering about it and gossiping about it, in the end I victoriously disposed of the brick.

I can't believe I had a dream that I shit a brick. Oh well. I think I'm quite impressive.