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Good Morning!

I’ve been thinking a lot about how people dream and how it reflects the situations that you’re living in your everyday life. Last night I had a dream that I was at the shop and my boss and the shop owner were out front to tell us that the shop was shutting down and we were out of a job until the reopened in another location out of the city. Right after the bad news while we were all trying to get some clarity, there were a bunch of pink cars weaving through traffic and some crashes happened and it just devolved into watching the start of the zombie apocalypse. We all ended up leaving and finding refuge together and more things happened but nothing as intense as the first part.

I’m confident this dream was related to the current stresses in my life of not making enough money to really survive comfortably with any “just in case” cushion, and also some of my coworkers are my roommates and my boss is one of my closest friends. Additionally the state of the world in general. We have a lot of things happening here financially, and for one of my roommates, health wise, that are affecting the stress levels we’re living with. At the end of the dream all of the earlier stresses brought us together in a relatively comfortable living situation despite how awful the outside world was. At least that’s how I like to think about it.

I’ll be honest I do enjoy some zombie related media but I feel like there are a lot of people who severely lack empathy for fellow humans and use it as an escapism from the complexity of interaction with others. I feel the same about people who spout off that they “love dogs more than people.” It just feels like such a distancing and disconnect from people that I’m sure is a product of the world we grow up in and wanting some type of perceived control such as zombies allow a way to dispose of others without conscience since they aren’t considered human anymore and dogs are literally trained to be obedient to the whims of the owner.

I guess that dream did have a pretty interesting impact on me this morning.

Stay curious and keep dreaming!