#207, 21 July 2004

I had a really strange dream, I figured I would write it down here before I forgot it. I was eating dinner at Grandpa's house, at a table in the downstairs TV room, it was right in the place Grandma's hospital bed was during her last few days. Grandpa and I were sitting at the table eating, but then Grandma was there too. None of us thought anything of it at the time, it just seemed like the regular routine. All of us eating dinner together. I think near the end of the meal, I realized that Grandma wasn't supposed to be there, and I asked her "Why are you here?" She told me "Oh, don't worry about that." In the dream after that, Grandpa, Mom and I were sitting in Grandpa's house at the upstairs table. I was eating a Rainbow Cone (chocolate, strawberry, sherbet, pistachio, and "yellow cherry" ice cream) that Grandpa got out of the cabinet. For some reason it didn't start melting until Grandpa took it out of the (room-temperature) cabinet, but the bottom of the cone was gone and some of the ice cream was dripping out onto a napkin on the table. Mom was sitting next to me, and Grandma was sitting at the end of the table, silent. I think Mom and I simultaneously realized that Grandma probably shouldn't be there, and we gave each other a look like "What's going on?" Grandma was wearing what looked like a blue sweatshirt, and shortly after Mom and I realized she was there, she stood up and said "I have to go now" in a weary voice and put on a white baseball hat with a black brim, that had some kind of logo on it. She walked to the front door, and there was a man there in a dark suit. I couldn't see his face. Right as the front door opened, I woke up.