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Last night's dream was not just a "new apartment" dream, but it was a "reminisce about old fictional apartments" dream, with a dusting of "pet I forgot I had".
In it, I had moved into a new town, though my parents were nearby. I had a dog and I was worried because I only remember ever having fed cats. The layout was split-level and probably could have made a decent coffee shop downstairs, in the way that those houses you walk through in downtown Phoenix's First Friday kind of have that ambiguous youth hostel vibe. The view outside wasn't good... I remembered it being better in previous apartments. But which ones?
In it, I had moved into a new town, though my parents were nearby. I had a dog and I was worried because I only remember ever having fed cats. The layout was split-level and probably could have made a decent coffee shop downstairs, in the way that those houses you walk through in downtown Phoenix's First Friday kind of have that ambiguous youth hostel vibe. The view outside wasn't good... I remembered it being better in previous apartments. But which ones?
- One of my dream-apartments I remembered as having a view of a waterfront, or a nice bay with sailboats. The closest real-life equivalent was my apartment at the Lakes (2007-2009), where if I walked across the parking lot there was a man-made lake with real ducks hanging out. The courtyard outside my window was lush and filled with trees.
- I remembered a more barren setting, an apartment that was up a mountain and kind of isolated from anything. In real life, this might have represented those two different apartments on 48th and Baseline (2000-2007), which I got because I could walk to the old office that was right up against South Mountain.
- Recurring themes in my dream dwellings have included:
- Extra space, often lots of it.
- Still having access to the last place I lived, sometimes with enough stuff that maybe I could just stay there.
- My parents and brother living there too.