Dream Journal
I was sharing a bedroom with Melissa and we both got new pets. I had a pet bear (in the dream I could remember dreaming this before). The black bear was a cub-sized fully grown adult. He slept on my bed with me.
When I woke in the morning, I saw the clock read 8:15. Melissa got out of her bed across the room and sleepily walked towards the night stand.
I told her what time it was, but she was too sleepy to comprehend. I shook her shoulder and said loudly, “Eight fifteen. We are late.” We dressed very quickly. She grabbed her backpack and headed out of the room and downstairs to the lobby.
I needed to do something with my bear otherwise he would tear up our room while we were gone; he had done so before. I emptied a large cardboard box (which took a while) and placed him in it. It was just tall enough that he couldn’t jump out.
Out in the stairwell, Melissa told me to hurry up because the bus was there. I bent down to grab my backpack and my Bible, not having enough time to put my Bible into my backpack, and went out the door.
Melissa was standing behind a wall so that the bus driver couldn’t see her. She told me that the bus had almost left at one point, but then it had come back. I asked why she didn’t go out and tell him to wait. She told me that she didn’t feel comfortable with the other person waiting for the bus.
As we walked through the double glass doors, the bus - a short yellow school bus - drive away. It was still dark outside. I ran after the bus waving my hands, knowing that the driver would see me. He stopped the bus on the other side of the parking lot and got out to walk toward us.
He asked where we had been waiting and I apologized for running late. We climbed up the stairs and were the only ones on the bus. I thanked him for waiting for us.
Themes: Melissa