a few days old dream
Mar. 26th, 2002 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanA few nights ago I dreamt that I was being taken (on a tour?) through a building that looked like a college dorm but was being used as temporary barracks for soldiers. There must have been a war on or something, because there were soldiers living everywhere, even in the hallways and lounges because there wasn't room for everyone. They had bedrolls on the floor and each person had set up a little area of their personal stuff. I was walking through this with a bunch of other people. There was a little booth, like the carts you see in malls, with a catchy pun name which I forget, but the gist of it was "just because you're going off to war doesn't mean you shouldn't look feminine," and a lot of the female soldiers were buying makeup and similar. I passed a couple of female soldiers who were very dolled-up, and I thought it looked odd in the setting.
Then we got to the room we were going to, where a woman was staying, but she was trying to make room for me and the others to stay with her there. She had a piano, and she was bustling around trying to clear space in the room, and then she had to go do something, but she had seen me looking at the piano, so when I said to her "May I?" meaning "may I play your piano" she knew what I meant and she said yes. I was nervous because she was a very good (famous?) pianist and I wanted to make a good impression. So I was sitting at her piano trying to remember some of my Bach, and she went off to do whatever, and the other people with me were chatting and stuff. I couldn't remember how my Bach fugue started -- or more accurately, what key it was in. I kept playing the first few notes over and over, in different keys, trying to remember which one was right. I also at some point looked through the woman's sheet music, but she didn't have anything I knew.
And the piano keyboard was just part of the table, and one of the other people in the room was doing something on the table with tiny sewing needles, and I had to be careful playing the piano or I would prick my fingers on the needles. So I was yelling at the person to move the needles. And that's all I remember of that dream.
Then we got to the room we were going to, where a woman was staying, but she was trying to make room for me and the others to stay with her there. She had a piano, and she was bustling around trying to clear space in the room, and then she had to go do something, but she had seen me looking at the piano, so when I said to her "May I?" meaning "may I play your piano" she knew what I meant and she said yes. I was nervous because she was a very good (famous?) pianist and I wanted to make a good impression. So I was sitting at her piano trying to remember some of my Bach, and she went off to do whatever, and the other people with me were chatting and stuff. I couldn't remember how my Bach fugue started -- or more accurately, what key it was in. I kept playing the first few notes over and over, in different keys, trying to remember which one was right. I also at some point looked through the woman's sheet music, but she didn't have anything I knew.
And the piano keyboard was just part of the table, and one of the other people in the room was doing something on the table with tiny sewing needles, and I had to be careful playing the piano or I would prick my fingers on the needles. So I was yelling at the person to move the needles. And that's all I remember of that dream.
