Becoming An Impossible Father (night of 08/08/24)

I am now a Dad. I am having a baby with my ex-girlfriend. The baby also seems to have been born too. Walking up a stairway thinking about this. I do not want a baby with Beth. There is nothing I can do about this though. I am a Dad. I have to step up to the mark. Photographs of a ginger haired child - our daughter. When could she have got pregnant though? I do some mental mathematics - we split up nearly three years ago - I've not seen her since then. How could this be my child? I say that we will have to get DNA testing done to prove the child is not mine, but I have a suspicion - and a great deal of relief - that the child is not mine.

My Flat in the Wood-Panelled House (night of 05/08/2024)

 I am licing in a flat in a house. The hosue is old, dark wooden beams, large rooms. A cosy mysterious feeling. I have been trying to get to sleep for a while, but have been unable to. My bed is by the window looking out onto a patio / back garden. A woman next door comes into the garden to get her dog that has wandered in. I am slightly alarmed at this - have i been trying to get to sleep with the windows oipen and next door neighbours running into the garden? The woman seems normal though, and I am not too alarmed.
I am looking at the door of my bedroom which is open. Do I normally sleep with it shut? I am unsure. Outside of my room is the hallway and my living room. Strangely angled rooms. I go into the hallway, and realise that the door to my flat is open. I look down a large long hallway, wood-panelled, and again, full of a nocturnal mystery.
I am in the living room with the other residents of the house - men and women. There is a happy feeling between us. There is a French woman, the woman who works in Cafe Nero. A few others besides. One of the man has a dog that is intent on licking me. I am lying on the floor and the dog is over me.
When I woke, it seemed that the dream had lasted ages, and I had really known the people in my dream.