Thursday, 23 October 2025

Bookended by Phonecalls (night of 23/10/2025)

 I am back in Ickenham walking up Nettleton Road at the back of Woodstock Drive. I want to see my old house - a feeling of renovations?

I need a piss - but where? I decide to catch the bus to Uxbridge which will be the quickest way to find a toilet. Am I on the phone to Em?

A busy interior - a bookshop or a hotel  I look from one room into another that is full of books  a dog appears in the air  it feels as if I am thinking the dog into existence. It is a small / medium dog with light coloured fur. The dog is friendly and absolutely lovely. It changes - briefly - into a kind of sausage dog. I like the dog's original form better and it changes back. A man says to me that the dog 'is lucky to have found you'.

Talking with a woman. A close relative of hers has gone missing. I search for the right things to say, then remember that I have known people who have gone missing too. One of them is Toni who I used to work with.

I am walking along a path overlooking a canal while talking on the phone to Alice. I head down the slope onto the towpath. This necessitates me walking back towards a small bridge. An autumnal wintry day. I slip over on the muddy ground. I look toward the bridge - the path is very muddy and slopes alarmingly near the bridge. To get to the bridge I will need to traverse this. I will end up slipping into the water if I do so. There is some connection to the word / name 'batman'. I am also taking to Alice on the phone. I tell her about the slippy path and I will be have to t ok go back. She says she 'had a feeling this would happen'.

Despite the dream having many different sections, when I woke there was a feeling if had all been part of the same dream, so I have wrote it up here as such.


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