Dream Journal
I was in my parents’ basement. My mom was standing on a stepladder next to the pool table fixing the overhead light. Dad stood next to her watching what she was doing. I was standing in the living room area watching both of them.
I utter ‘asshole’ under my breath; my dad looks sharply at me and asks accusingly what I just said. I told him that I called him an asshole. I was afraid that he would come over to me and hit me. Before he is able to react to me, Mom called his attention to the light and asked him a question. He told her something, then looked down and muttered ‘wench.’
Furious at what he just called my mom, I ran over to him and yelled into his ear as loud as I could. I screamed obscenities at him, knowing that it would probably end with him hitting me. But I felt a giant need to stick up for my mom.