Sep. 10th, 2006

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We went to a funeral home for a wake, and there was a wake other than the one we were there for in a room to the right as we walked in. It looked pretty typical at first, with people lined up to the casket and family members. As soon as I looked away, Jackie said something about a baby and I looked again and there was a baby lying on a small bed near the middle of the room. I was thinking how sad it was that a baby died when I noticed the baby was breathing and started to move, so I thought, nope, not the baby. Then I noticed another bed in the room just beyond the baby's, and on it was a very old woman. Old like 100. So I thought that must be who really died and at least she got to live a whole life, but then she too started to move. When she got up and started to walk around she didn't look so old anymore. Maybe 40-something, and even though she was moving around and even said something (I wish I could remember what) I somehow knew that this was in fact her wake.

A woman who knew her was suddenly nearby, so I asked "Are you sure she's dead?" and with a slight eye roll and a quick nod of her head she said "Oh, belieeeve me!" So I was like, "okaaaay...."

I thought, wow! If she's like this now she must have been really something when she was alive.

Then I was thinking, if they drained out all her blood and filled her with embalming fluid, she probably won't be able to keep doing this for much longer...

*****

Meanwhile, back in real life, Jackie was calling to me to wake up because it was time and there was stuff to do, so I didn't get to finish the dream, dammit. I don't even know whose wake we were going to.

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