A Changing Magnet and the Missing Bananas

My dream is a party of many people. We are in a dark room, and I have a cool flat magnet with the image of Madonna, a dramatic theatrical light that shows the contour of the right side of her body, but only in the dark. In the shape of a subtle line from the ear to the arm and the leg, reminding me of old Flemish paintings.

Under the light, the same magnet looks completely different: it is still the image of Madonna but with a sci-fi outfit, her head a robot-like square cut shape, in white. I enjoy showing my magnet to the acquaintances I meet in the party, moving from the dark room to the next, with the big lights on.

Now, I am excited to move to another party.

It is New Year's Eve. I know something about a party, but I don't know exactly

where. I only know it is "the place to be." I am trying to find out the address from the other guests. I am not alone. My friend proposes going to a café, but I think if we do that we will easily feel sleepy, and to be honest, I would not like that.

We are now in the basement parking garage, when I see [person A] driving a car. He is with [person B] and [person C]. I expect they know where the party is, and I intend to ask him if we can fit in his car. Together we are two or three.

Suddenly, in the dream I wake up and stop myself from having expectations. Staying away from deceptions is the wisest thing to do, I discern. I take control of myself like never before.

I hear [person A] tells me [person B] and his girlfriend are going back home. [person C] and [person A] are going in different directions. I see a split between my friends. I think this can have an awful consequence, but I can stop and avoid having that feeling. Again, the wise thing to do is to flow

with what’s happening.

[person A] drives us outside from the garage. We get out of the car to somewhere in the street nearly at dawn. On the sidewalk, we bump into two girls who are going to the same party. One of them is looking in a big garbage bin in the street, because she has lost a bag of bananas she had earlier.

–"My friends are throwing the party and asked me to bring 15 bananas," she says. She is surprised she cannot find them.

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