Do you dream? Do you remember them? When you do remember them and even when parts of them are not the reality you know when you are awake, while you are dreaming them, do they all seem natural, like real, like you are not questioning whatever it is, but accepting it and it still feels familiar?
That is how most of mine are, not all, but most. When I was much younger I used to remember many more of my dreams. Then for a long time it seemed I never remembered dreaming and it seemed odd to me, but I just thought I was still dreaming as much, just that I no longer remembered them.
....Or that was my theory.
Night before last my Great Grandmother came for a visit. It wasn't to my house, we were at her house. Not the only house I ever knew her to live in, but in the house she lives in now.
I called her Grandma Webster. Her maiden name was Lenor Elizabeth Moore. Then she married my Great Grandfather James Carey Webster who we called Grandpa Webster. To their friends, they were Lenor and Carey. Interestingly to me, her name was pronounced to rhyme with dinner.
In real life, I didn't know my Great Grandmother very well in the way of who she really was as a person. I was young and although I loved all my family, my life was happening as lives do and I didn't mature enough before she passed in my very early 20's to realize I needed to spend more time with her and actually get to know her in a way that was more than just a Great Grandmother. How I wish I did. I have so many questions now, so many things to wonder about.
She had 5 children. Her oldest, Ida, is my mother's mother.
When we visited in my dream, I was at her house. She looked pretty much as I remembered her in her older years, but she moved like a much younger person. She lives in a huge historic house now. She is the matriarch there I believe, or that is how I felt it. She was putting away some Christmas decorations in a huge basement type place, only it wasn't really basement'y in that it was huge with lots of shelves. I'm pretty sure the walls were stone though.
She was dressed somewhat like she always was when she was here and somewhat not. She had on a dress that was long. She always wore dresses and they were normally at least half-calf length and they always looked a bit like they had empire waists on them, but that may have been because she was well endowed on the top and there wasn't a lot of space above her waist. She is still shaped like that and her dress still fit the same, only the one she had on the other night was very expensive looking and was one of those you see back in Victorian times kind of where it appeared to have a second skirted layer that went down to her feet. It was a long pinafore effect. She also had on some vintage pumps, very nice looking. I have seen some like them in a photo of her when she was very young. In real life, the dresses she wore were more "everyday" type of dresses and of course she had a nicer thing or two for special occasions back then, but not rich clothes. What she had on the other night though was very VERY nice.
In one area of that basement, there were rolling bookcases like in the library or a document storage space where the shelves roll side to side so that you can go in-between them, but they don't take up as much space as if they were stationary and had a walkway permanently between each one.
I was excited to be there with her and I kept wondering what kind of books were stored on those shelves. I really wanted to know and was hoping I would get to take a look at them. I just knew there was going to be some exciting stuff there.
Unfortunately I didn't get to spend as much time with her as I would have liked too, because I woke up. I didn't get the feeling that she was trying to tell me something I urgently needed to know or anything like that, but I did feel happy when I woke up that I had gotten to see her again.
I hope to get a chance to go back and see what kind of books she has there sometime.
It's Wednesday again and I am off... again.... and I have run the dishwasher and washed a load of clothes. Next I will be going back to the kitchen to decide how I am going to rearrange what is on my counter tops to accommodate the new air fryer that got here yesterday. Looks like it is not going to work out where I pictured, so a new plan will need to be made and implemented.
I hope you are doing well however you are choosing to spend your day.
