It was lunchtime and my boyfriend Bryn and I were in my room. I started playing with him and he got excited, but it was two o’clock, and we both had to go to lectures. “Tell you what,” he said. “I’ll go to my lecture, you just take my body with you, and keep going.”
And so I went over to Keynes College, continuing with this dodginess. There were a lot of people around and I felt rather embarrassed for him. Suddenly I thought, “This is stupid, you can’t separate yourself from your body”, and I stopped. It turned out he had actually stayed in his body.
We went into Keynes JCR1 which was full of people. His ex-girlfriend ran up to us. “I’m so glad to see you!” she said. “What are you doing on Friday evening?”
“We’re going to a concert,” Bryn said.
“Oh well,” she said, and she turned to talk to other people. It seemed that she was looking for someone to babysit while she was out. (Why?)
The dream shifted. It was 8.30am on a Friday, and I was outside an exam hall in central Carlisle (the nearest city to my hometown). I was to take an exam in Computing that morning and I would be the only person doing it. I didn’t know when it started. A number of people who were in my year at school would be taking a Maths exam that started at ten, but I went into the exam hall anyway, to find out. When I entered, people in my brother’s school year were busily writing. My old Physics teacher, who was invigilating, came over to me and told me it started at 9.30.
I went outside, and talked to Alice and Roe (old classmates), who were waiting, for a bit. I suddenly remembered I’d left my stationery in the exam hall, so I went in to get it. I looked at the clock in there, and the time didn’t seem to make sense. I looked at my watch, and again I had trouble interpreting the hands, but eventually it became clear that it was eleven thirty.
It couldn’t be! I decided to go home and check my clock there. Fortunately, my house was in Carlisle (Mykos knows why). I started sprinting through the deserted streets.
