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Catherine Quinn
Dreams


I was walking down a pathway in some sort of park; it actually looked quite a bit like the arboretum at Grand Valley except that the pathways were made of grass. I was with some people in the dream; however, I never actually saw them or knew who they were. The colors were extremely vibrant, far more so than in reality. I was walking some sort of exotic lizard with a leash. The least was tied around this neck and the lizard was black with bright red spots. As I was walking, the leash sort of disappeared and the lizard ran behind a bush. I got extremely anxious and ran around trying to fin it somewhat frantically. After a few moments of looking I realized that I was never going to find it again. In the same bush that the black and red lizard disappeared into I found a new lizard that was about the same size and shape as the old one, but it was neon green with yellow spots. I put that one on the leash and kept walking. Even though it looked completely different I was sure that the people I was with wouldn’t know that I had lost the old lizard.

I’m at a large public indoor swimming pool. I’m standing at the edge of the pool and there are a few people around, some in the lounge chairs and some in the pool. I watch a boy I used to date swim the length of the pool. It looks nothing like him and his bottom half is a horse, but I know that it is him. His head never goes under water, and I’m slightly confused because I didn’t know that horses were such good swimmers. I dive into the pool and swim to the shallow end and sit on the underwater steps. He swims over and the amount of him that is made of horse changes as the situation requires. He sits down next to me, and the pool seems much longer; the people swimming at the other end are extremely far away. We start arguing because he wants to get back together, but I tell him that I can’t because he is a horse, and that would be stupid. We push each other as we argue, and then I get out of the pool. He goes back to doing laps, still half horse. I yell at him as I leave, and the dream ends.


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