Dream last night
20 February 2009 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
3rdragonThere was a young woman walking down an alley in a low-rise inner-city neighborhood. It was an odd sort of alley, in that it abruptly became rather narrower partway down when buildings started sticking into what had previously been alley. The woman was pretty and affluent-looking, and did not look like she belonged here.
A group of people filtered into the alley behind her, perhaps six men and two women. They did not look friendly. The lone woman became aware of them and headed away, but found herself backed up against the faux end of the alley. The welcoming committee drew closer.
Sound of a vehicle. A police car drove down the alley towards the group of people. The gang scattered, leaving the woman backed up against the wall. The police car continued steadily forward. It seemed somehow a very blind and featureless police car. It wasn't that no one was driving it, but rather that one couldn't see inside to see if there was a driver. It continued onwards, as inexorable as death, on a course that would crush the woman against the wall. She began to scream. The car drew closer - closer - and somehow slid down the narrow part of the alley, passing the woman without hitting her.
The woman continued to scream as the police car disappeared down the alley. Gradually the screams resolved into words, which were, "Why is that woman still here?" She was pointing at a woman who had her head sticking out into the alley from a window. Thinking back, I became aware that the woman had been there the whole time - had, indeed, taken no notice of everything that had passed. She pulled her head back in, then shortly afterwards disappeared down the alley, possibly walking through a building.
The two women who had been with the gang were still standing a ways down the alley. The affluent woman looked at them with wild eyes and said, "She's not real - she can't be - she's dead or something," and disappeared down a side alley.
A very nineteen-fifties, very Jewish-grandmother woman appeared from another building, and headed briskly towards the center of town. Walking past the two thunderstruck women who had formerly been with the gang, she scolded them for taking up the entire street, leaving two very confused women who had never seen her before in their lives.
A group of people filtered into the alley behind her, perhaps six men and two women. They did not look friendly. The lone woman became aware of them and headed away, but found herself backed up against the faux end of the alley. The welcoming committee drew closer.
Sound of a vehicle. A police car drove down the alley towards the group of people. The gang scattered, leaving the woman backed up against the wall. The police car continued steadily forward. It seemed somehow a very blind and featureless police car. It wasn't that no one was driving it, but rather that one couldn't see inside to see if there was a driver. It continued onwards, as inexorable as death, on a course that would crush the woman against the wall. She began to scream. The car drew closer - closer - and somehow slid down the narrow part of the alley, passing the woman without hitting her.
The woman continued to scream as the police car disappeared down the alley. Gradually the screams resolved into words, which were, "Why is that woman still here?" She was pointing at a woman who had her head sticking out into the alley from a window. Thinking back, I became aware that the woman had been there the whole time - had, indeed, taken no notice of everything that had passed. She pulled her head back in, then shortly afterwards disappeared down the alley, possibly walking through a building.
The two women who had been with the gang were still standing a ways down the alley. The affluent woman looked at them with wild eyes and said, "She's not real - she can't be - she's dead or something," and disappeared down a side alley.
A very nineteen-fifties, very Jewish-grandmother woman appeared from another building, and headed briskly towards the center of town. Walking past the two thunderstruck women who had formerly been with the gang, she scolded them for taking up the entire street, leaving two very confused women who had never seen her before in their lives.
