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My dad comes to visit. I have homework I have to do. I tell my dad that I don’t want to have to do all of it later. I do some of it. He is tired and needs to rest.

We go in the car. I am driving. I cannot remember where I booked a place for Dad to stay. We pull into an area where there are two RV’s parked, while I try to figure it out. A man comes and says we can’t park there. We drive some more.

Now we are in a large garage. There is a mechanic working on an old, large car. There are two parked motorcycles on the car’s right. I don’t think I can drive through them to get through and out of the garage. A man directs me. Then a guy drives off on the motorcycle to the far right. I follow him. He and then I go through the garage door. It automatically opens when we get close.

Next we are at this large complex with lots of people. We are on foot. Somehow we get separated. I go up on an escalator and Dad takes the one going down. There are lots of people on the elevators. A woman wants to give me these thin, plastic “sticks” and I say no. I get off on the top floor. There are rooms with different catagories of things. (I can’t remember what they were when I awoke). I worried about Dad and finding him.

Feeling: overwhelmed

I am going canoeing with my mom. I go to a sporting goods store. I see a man carrying a pink canoe. He is a customer as well. I ask him if I can buy the canoe and he says yes. I take the canoe to Shady Oak (where I grew up) and tell my mom I bought a pink canoe for us. I explain that it is a good idea because people can see us better. Somehow this will keep us safer than a basic metal canoe. She is not pleased. I then realize we do not have paddles. My dad takes me to the garage. He thinks he might have some paddles. The garage is very neat with all these tools hanging up on hooks. However, there are no paddles.

I worked this dream with my AZ dream group. Here is what I wrote: If this were my dream, I am excited about having an adventure with my mom. ( My mother, in waking life made it possible for my siblings and I to have a canoe and spend hours on the pond behind our house. She also found the land and had our uncle build the house. ) I want to share this experience with her. I am thinking she will feel safer in a pink canoe so iif we are in trouble we will be noticed. She is not pleased. When I was inn my twenties and the whole family went to therapy when my sister started to have schizophrenic episodes, I felt that I could not move/grow beyond my mother. That would be like leaving her behind. I wanted her to grow psychologically with me. My dad had good intentions, but he could not help psychologically, (no paddles) I needed to find my own paddles to get to where I am today. Maybe this dream is saying, I have progressed beyond my parents and it is good.