The House Shared across Generations

My dream revolves around my childhood friend [person A]’s house, where her mother is coordinating her house and her family for me to move in with the [family name redacted] family.

My memory begins upon entering the huge property, amidst the horses. A white one has something strange on its right shoulder, a stump, a protuberance or a bone malformation, which may make it so voluminous. I, first suspect it may be an illness, but I'm not sure and I try to find out.

The family’s house is undergoing a major change, as the people living in it are moving. [person B] and her husband are taking their things out, although they do not know where to go yet. They looked for a place to live in [private home-search neighborhood redacted] and didn’t find anything satisfactory. They've had the plan to move for a long

time, since [person A]’s mother and her daughter [person B], are coordinating their departure and my arrival together.

At the beginning, I thought of setting up my workshop in the main house. However, in the dream I'm conscious [private studio name redacted] is my studio, and I would not exchange it.

The dream gradually reveals that [person B] and her husband are taking her things out of the house and [person A] stays. Her home is in the dollhouse or where it usually was. With some degree of clarity, I focus my attention on the dividing wall between her house and my childhood home. The wall is now covered with wooden tiles, and is also different, not among them but at the top the shape is of semi-circular sections. After so many years, the house has had quite a few renovations.

Something strange stands out in [person B]’s husband’s teeth. They are crooked, some overlapping others. [person B] is like the perfect wife they share an excellent social status. he must comes from a so- called "good families", I believe. [person B]

also has strange teeth; each tooth has a perfectly circular perforation, a hole made right in the middle, below the gums. The whole upper jaw is like that, and I suspect that her whole mouth is that way.

Each tooth is carefully painted of a different colour, some are green others pink, all in different shades. That aesthetic difference seems to be a sign of social status; each tooth painted different colours is a symbol of beauty in the dream, despite how disturbing this may seem. They are enamel like nail polish. The process took a week, she says, and she made the holes herself!

Moving to this house is a tremendous privilege, but I take it smoothly; I act receptive to their move and take over my new home cordially. [person A]’s mother shows me how she's going to repair the bathroom. It is located exactly where the grandmother had her camellia tree.

The rustic look of the bathroom comes from the stone and also because of the openness to the elements. [person A]’s mother is going

to bring stones to repair and replace the tiles, a particular kind of stones called piedra-laja, she's going to carve, to make the tiles that cover the bathroom in the house.

At night my beautiful friend [person A] goes to her house, a few meters away. She freely decided to have an open, simple lifestyle, and her family supports her in that. Under a tarp roof and rooms open to the sky, her children grow up: a wild lifestyle although she's tremendously disciplined and has excellent living hygiene, as is to go to bed early.

I see when they go to sleep, I notice the beds are impeccably made with that German engineering that make life really comfortable.

[person A] takes care of every detail. While her children sleep, she takes over. to swat a mosquito. , It's a magical image, when she goes out in the nature after the insect flying, her beautiful long blond hair and her nightgown are light, that illuminates the garden.

. By taking possession of the main house, I acknowledge, [private studio name redacted] is forever my studio, like no other and [person A]’s family’s house, while large, will be the place to living in. I thus take care of my living hygiene.

Finding out what is wrong with the white horse is still pending. I ask again and this time I got an answer. It is not a body deformity. The shape of the protuberance is now a thick, perfectly cylindrical, even geometrical rather long stick that extends out of the right shoulder, inlaid in the animal’s skeleton.

It's not a disease, they add, but a "formation".

I'm amazed and deeply touch to see the new house where I'm moving in. I walk outside of the house toward the bottom of the property, go all the way around house until I get, to find water! It's the sea!

They, in the dream, explain that there're frequent strong swells, marine currents

during storms, waves that crash against the glass, water slapping the windows.

A piece of ice stuck to the house piques my curiosity, and I ask why? Could it come from the sea? I ask but get no answer.

Thrilled to see my uncle [person C], who lives now in the lower part. It seems incredible how a house joins many lives!

My friend’s mother is somehow [person C]’s mother-in-law as he was married to one of the daughters and that connects us strangely as if it stretched time. Many people are in the house; among other activities, there's a handcrafted textile workshop.

I go back up to the entrance. In the parking area, I'm with [person A], she shows me the dogs; they've not had a Dobermann in the house in years.

Many decades have passed since our childhood. [person A] wants to introduce her dog she has now in the dream, a female

German shepherd named [pet name redacted], "she's 11 years old", she says in a tone that insinuates an abnormal number of years, an extraordinary amount of time, it's weird, and expands time to another dimension.

This dream begins with [person D], as a current relationship. We go on a trip with [person E], and we’re staying in a hotel. I remember we enter the room to let our stuff and leave again when I recall that I forgot something and go back. On the sidewalk a vendor has a stand, among the things he sells is pastry. Since I know he likes them, I buy some for [person D], but my temptation and hunger betrays me. I eat some on the way. As I enter the room, I think I left some money out in order to keep it safe, I put it away.

Inside the room, a woman is taking care of two beautiful children with curly light hair, about 2 years old. She seems to be doing a good job, but I want to put my money out of temptation. [person D] left several 50-peso bills out, and I put them away.

I leave the hotel again surrounded by woods, may be, a rural place. We're going to have breakfast together, but I cheated I ate the bread, and now I'm not hungry.

I wanted to put our money away, in a safe place, making perfectly clear which money whose money it was and how much is mine, thereby preventing misunderstandings.

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