I was trying on a wedding dress and some other
clothes in a department store changing room. When I was done
trying things on, I realized that I couldn’t find my
own pants that I worn into the store. Later, I was in a restaurant
bar. There was no one there, but there was a television over
the bar that I started to watch. Morrissey, of The Smiths,
was on tv describing a scenario in which he lost his pants
while trying on clothes and a wedding dress at a store. It
seemed too unlikely to be a coincidence. I thought that he
was stealing my story. After that, I was at a Smiths concert,
just before the show. For their big entrance, they all appeared
submerged underwater and had to be pulled out horizontally
with huge hooks because they were all wearing suits of armor.
The suits had rectangular openings in the front that for some
reason were referred to as “kippers.” They were
supposed to be able to pull their pants out through these
openings, but I didn’t know why.
I was watching television. I’m not sure what the show
was, but it was at the very beginning, when the TV rating
guide appears in the upper corner. Underneath its “PG”
rating, the show had numerous citations (such as V for violence),
but I realized that I didn’t know what they all stood
for. Some did not seem at all self-explanatory or obvious.
Later I found a key to the code on the internet, and I started
reading it. I learned that the abbreviation “PS”
meant that the show was about children whose parents lived
in space. Apparently, this was both commonplace and potentially
disturbing enough to children that it needed to be notated.
Before I could finish reading the code, my sister came to
get me to tell me that we had to go to meet our dad for dinner.
I really wanted to finish reading through the code; it seemed
to weigh on me, but I knew that I had to go. Later, in the
restaurant, I noticed that my sister was wearing a brown corduroy
jacket that I had never seen her wear before. She said that
she inherited it from our great aunt who had recently died
(both in life and in the dream). Then I noticed that it had
the same key to the television ratings system printed on a
little piece of fabric that was sewn into the lining. I didn’t
get to read through it at the time, but I was relieved to
know that I could consult it later on. It seemed really important
to me to know what all of the abbreviations stood for. |