(Memorial Day, 2026) waxing gibbous moon Virgo
I walk through a glass door into a high-rise building’s entryway. The space is large, with a multi-story ceiling, like the hotel we stayed at in downtown Chicago. People are joining together in the lobby, hundreds. We are all part of various medical studies. I belong to the PPA study.
A guide gathers the PPA participants, and we begin slowly walking toward the upper level of the building. There are no elevators, at least that I can see. The wide floor gently inclines like it does in a parking garage. We circle up the giant turret.
Our guide actively interacts with us, as a group and sometimes from person to person. After walking up a few stories, she tells us to take a rest and nap. I notice a rectangular marking on the floor and wonder if that is the sleep-spot, but I continue walking. Somehow I end up at the back of a group that has a different health issue, not PPA.
A small, thin, dark-haired man is rushing and hopping around, promoting a tiny book he has written about PPA. A trickster, for sure. Our guide warns me against his writing, and she helps me return to our aphasia participants. I prepare to sleep, yet I decide at some point I will read the odd tale, despite the author’s lack of truthfulness. He reminds me of the personality change that can occur with frontotemporal lobe dementia.
The dream transitions back to the lower lobby. We are shaking hands and hugging, getting ready to move on to the outdoors.
Day notes:
Cullan and I returned home from the Northwestern PPA study on Friday night. It took place in beautiful downtown Chicago. We had a blast. It was a great experience for both of us. Unforgettable. The PPA study guide’s name is Michelle, and we hugged each other at the end of our time spent together.
PPA is connected to frontotemporal lobe dementia. Toward the end a shift in personality can begin. A very sad possibility. But my first Mayo neurologist told me PPA can last 20 years, and Michelle said Northwestern’s PPA study has been working with one particular patient since 2007.
Nice dream especially after coming back from Chicago. I am curious about the dreamer somehow getting into a different group. Some other medical condition. I wonder if there is some medical condition I have that I don’t know about. I get help getting back into the PPA Group. The trickster is interesting and I like that the dreamer is going to read his book and decide for herself what to believe. First I go up the turret and then down. The turret seems fairy tale ish to me.