Dream of Crickets

May 7, 2006

This was just fun. 

I was dreaming of sleeping in this place I have slept in dreams before. It is on the floor, but sort of a mattress, and there is a door just to the right of where my head is. 

There is another bed on the other side of the door, so a few feet away, and someone else is sleeping there, but I do not know who. I just feel that they belong there. 

This time, I was laying there, it was daylight, and all of a sudden, about six crickets came running by. I could see each one clearly, the colour, the way the light was on them, how their legs were moving, which was funny because it was like they were running, not hopping. 

And then a cat came right behind them. They were playing, the crickets and the cat. 

The cat would come running and slide because the floor is wood...and then the crickets would all run right by the cat, and the cat would do a sliding turn to chase them again. 

Then one time the crickets ran right over me and were hiding on the other side of me, and they were laughing.  It was the funniest thing. It was that they were chirping, but I could understand them, that it was a laughing chirp. To me it sounded only like cricket laughing, it was after a few times that I realized I was understanding their chirps. 

Then the cat would just sit and look at me, smiling, and would wait like it could not hear the crickets laughing behind me. 

It was just so fun to be there. I was laughing too, and was trying to be quiet so I would not wake up the other person.