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I would say that those dreams suggest something about the precariousness of current housing conditions, but what’s funny is that in both cases the living arrangements seemed to have been marketed as being in a strange way somewhat high-end.
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In last night’s dream, I found out (surprise!) that I was somehow able to afford to buy my own home. I looked at this one which was owned by an old lady, & had a fancy entrance and a large living room filled with her quaint artifacts. The door to the rest of the home, however ...
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... led into a cavernous windowless space painted battleship grey, with fluorescent lights overhead. You traversed it along a narrow winding catwalk making diagonal bends, which was maybe 6ft above the floor level. It was supposed to lead to the kitchen/bathroom/bedroom.
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The distance to that other end of the home was maybe the length of a football field. As I traversed the catwalk I passed a concrete tower several stories high inside the space, which was painted red/green & felt strangely reassuring. (The room’s ceiling was ~10 stories high.)
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I reached the rest of the home at the other end of the factory space, and saw it was kind of small. Had low ceilings & was dilapidated, kind of like the rooms inside an old bungalow. The bathroom seemed esp. small and weird, & it was reached down a narrow claustrophobic hall.
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I felt a strange urgency to leave those weird small rooms. As I went back along the catwalk to go to the front of the “house,” I realized I was no longer alone; factory workers had lined up on wooden steps on the outside of the tower, and others were pushing carts on the walkway.
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I re-entered the front living room with a different perspective, wondering how the house’s previous owner had been able to tolerate the intrusion of privacy from having her home split in half.
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I also wondered if the industrial part was being treated (and trivialized) like some kind of entertaining scenery, like the experiences of that other segment of society might not have felt completely “real” to the home’s owner, as if they were a backdrop.
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I interestingly had the opposite feeling during my previous dream where I had been assigned student housing inside a glass pod in the middle of the university lecture hall, like the others around me were trying to ignore my presence as being invisible.
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I’m unsure why I tweeted all of that except maybe out of some subconscious death drive-like desire to set my Twitter follower count on fire. I guess it’s just interesting I’m having weird conflicted dreams about housing situations, and I wonder what that says about our society.
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Yeah, I started trying to draw it. Realize I should start making a more organized record of all the spatial dreams I have, since I’ve had a few which developed themselves in really specific detailed ways. (The glass hotel in the woods in Alabama still haunts me as well...)
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