Recorder Lesson

The first thing I remember was being in a recorder lesson. There were four of us taking group lessons together, and in this lesson we were put into pairs. I was working with a young boy, and we'd been working together through the lesson on something, and the plan was that later on in the evening the group would meet up again and we would perform a duet with our partners.

The lesson ended and I went home. The layout of the house was not like any house I've ever lived in, and we were getting ready for the wedding. It was early afternoon and we still had a few things to finalise, and the wedding was due to be later that evening. We were cutting it a little bit fine as we had quite a long drive to the wedding.

The weird thing was that my mum was here, and she was with Ces (her ex-husband). We were talking about how much stuff was left to do and she said that I should call my recorder partner and tell him I'm not going to be coming back this evening!

Mum had had an argument with Ces and was upset. She told me that she didn't want to go to the wedding with him, and so I suggested that she could come in the car with my and Yu Lee. She was delighted at this idea!

Mum was nervous about telling Ces that she wouldn't be going with him as she thought it would probably make him angry. I remember thinking "Why are they still together? Does she even want to be with him any more?" Then I remembered that they weren't really together any more (in real life they've been divorced for years).

We went to tell Ces, but when we got to him, the first thing he said was that maybe mum should come in the car with us. Mum looked relieved.

Blocked Tenor

We said we should make a move, but I wanted to show Mum my recorders. Yu Lee said that we shouldn't mess around, but I said that one minute wasn't going to make a lot of difference.

I took Yu Lee's soprano recorder (the type children are give in school) out of its bag, and said that it was easy to play, but I didn't really like it because it was too shrill. I blew a few notes on it and put it back.

Next I took out my alto recorder (quite a bit bigger than the soprano) and put it together and showed it to Mum. I played a few notes, and told her that this one was quite easy to play, but not quite as shrill as the soprano.

Finally I took out the tenor and assembled it. When I lifted it up, what looked like clouds of cobwebs seemed to be sitting in front of each of the holes in the recorder, that looked like bright lights shining out of the holes through a large volume of transparent cotton wool.

Mum was surprised by how big it was, and I asked her what she thought it would sound like. She said "lower". I put the recorder up to my lips, covering all of the holes to let out a deep note, but when I blew into it, a very muffled sound came out of the recorder as if was blocked by something. I thought it was odd that the recorder would be full of condensation already, but I blew through the sound hole to try to blow the moisture out, but nothing came out. I put it up to my lips again, and the sound was still muffled.

I was determined to show her what it sounded like, and Yu Lee was putting the pressure on me to hurry up. I took my fingers off of some of the holes to play a higher note, and this time blew through it long and hard. At first my breath had considerable resistance, and barely a sound came out of it, but then all of a sudden the blockage cleared and clouds of fine, white dust erupted from each of the holes like a fountain, creating a large white cloud that hung in the air and then started to drift slowly down towards the ground. As the blockage cleared, the recorder started to make a beautiful, deep tone, unlike anything I'd ever heard before.

A Mad Panic

"Come on Stephen, we're going to be late!"

Yu Lee was getting really anxious now so I put the recorders away and started to get my things together to go to the wedding. Yu Lee asked me to call the registry office and confirm what time the ceremony was, so I did that. It turned out that we only had a couple of hours to get there, and it would pretty much take the whole time we had left to drive there.

At this point I was starting to panic too. There were still a lot of things to do, but we just had to leave, so I was frantically grabbing my suit, the rings, all of the things we needed and trying to get them into the car so that we could leave.

This is where a really common dream-sign happened for me: I was repeatedly walking back from the house to the car, picking things up, but every time I got to the car I realised I'd forgotten something else. I was feeling anxious and frustrated at my own incompetence.

As I was grabbing stuff and getting ready, I was listing the things we hadn't done. "We didn't make the CD with the music; we didn't do the seating plan..."

Eventually we got everything together and headed outside. "Yu Lee's driving," I said, "because she can drive much quicker than I can and I don't want to be late." We started to get into the car, and then I woke up.

I dreamt that I was back at home and Ces was living with us again. Mum didn't want him living with us but he had nowhere else to go. I don't really remember much of the dream now because I didn't write it down straight away.

I remember Ces being really awkward and annoying, and Mum being upset that he wouldn't leave.

I don't know if the next bit is a different dream or more of the same dream as I did a lot of drifting in and out of consciousness. One thing I remember is playing a role playing game and it had a really addictive mini game in it. The next thing I remember is that everyone wanted to go out somewhere but I couldn't go because I had to go to work.

Finally I remember being in a computer game. It was free roaming and you could see places in the distance that you would be able to go to later on in the game. One of the places was a ghost train and the other was "The Genie's Castle".

I only remember 3 fragments of my dream.

Scene 1

I was at a swimming pool. A few of my family were there, and so was Ces (my mum's ex-husband). I mainly remember going to the toilet.

To get to the toilets you needed to use a key and we only had one key between us, so Ces came with me to open the door. The layout to the toilet was really weird.

Ces went off and I went to a urinal to pee. Someone else came and stood very close to me which made me feel uncomfortable, so I went to move to another urinal. The other guy said "Why are you moving? Do you have a small willy?" and I told him it was because I couldn't deal with this piece of wood sticking out of the ceiling which was making me bend down. He said "fair enough".

I went and found a cubicle, and the cubicle was fairly odd. The toilet was very low and the seat was made out of black plastic, and the hole where you pee in was very small. The seat was even more bizarre as it didn't have the usual round hole in it, but instead had a cross shaped one. From above it kind of looked like this:

After I had my pee I went to find Ces and he was walking round the toilet talking to people and being a complete dick head.

Scene 2

The second scene was at my old school (Herschel Grammar) and I was with Yu Lee. I had a feeling from previous events that people were trying to advertise stuff to me on the sly (like in The Truman Show, maybe).

I was on a raised walkway behind the school hall, coming out of the canteen and into the foyer. A girl was standing there who I'd never seen before. She was very pretty, had lots of white make-up on and had thick, red lips.

I started talking to her and Yu Lee walked off into the foyer. She was being really flirty and at one point she started talking about AIDS!

After a really odd bit of flirting she grabbed me and started kissing me. We made out for a while and then I walked off. I got the impression she'd done it to advertise something to me.

Scene 3

The third scene was the most bizarre. I was in my bedroom at York Avenue but my mirror doors were back on my wardrobe. I was chilling in my room and I could hear birds really loudly.

I opened the curtains and looked outside and saw loads of birds on a weird plant outside my window. Next I noticed a bird that was really tall, and then I realised it was a weird mouse thing. Looking even closer revealed it to actually be a strange lizard thing. Suddenly I could see that the lizard and the strange plant it was on were both inside my bedroom!

The strange plant it was on was in the corner of my bedroom next to the wardrobe, and I could see its reflection in the mirror doors. The plant was woody and looked like a number of vines twisted around each other.

I backed off and when I looked around the lizard was much bigger and more lizard like. I was also dark green.

The lizard approached me and I wasn't scared: I thought it was being playful. It had long legs and its head had a disk at the back making it look more like a dinosaur.

The next thing I remember is being awake and trying to remember it.