Dream: March 16th, 2010

i have just arrived in Englnd to visit my Grandmother. i am waiting for her to arrive at her house (which does not look like her real house) when I see a cassette recorder, the type used for dictation or other portable needs, laying haphazardly on the floor. I put it up on a bureau and begin to play the tape of my grandmother speaking. There is a hand-written note attached to the player, probably some instructions from her to Uncle P, and I understand that this tape is not meant to be heard by me.

My Grandmother, uncle, and my parents all arrive at the house, and I quickly turn off the player trying to conceal that I have been listening to it. However, I think my grandmother has already concluded that I was listening. She gives me a kiss and light hug, very brusquely compared to usual. I notice at this point that she is extremely short and I wonder if she has always been that short. She harriedly walks off as if on an important errand to do around the house.

Uncle, cousin Gruber, parents, and I are in some sort of gourmet deli. We are each sitting on stools eating chocolates of various kinds, like chocolate covered nuts and such things found in gourmet delis. Gruber and I are conversing when accidentally a bag of chocolates drops to the floor and some spill out. Gruber notices that some of the chocolates on the floor are of a sort that have a block of some edible sort covered in chocolate. So he picks a few of those off the floor and eats them. I do the same.

Uncle Peter arrives with a brush and pan to pick up the spilled chocolate. He mentions discretely something about picking up and keeping the “treasure”. He carefully picks up some of the chocolate to salvage it while throwing out others. My mother eats some of the chocolate too.

Daniel and I are standing outside on a street – a pedestrian walkway of sorts with stone steps at a slow incline, European-looking. We are with Daniel’s girlfriend, who is cute, young, and dressed in a white tee shirt. As we are talking, she walks over to another guy on the opposite side of the walkway who is walking with the assistance of a cane. She and he obviously know each other, and at some point they start kissing unabashedly. She is being playful with him as if they are good friends and lovers. Daniel and I watch, and I make some remark towards Daniel about how he knows how to pick them.

The guy with the cane is good looking and also dressed casually. He has a friend with him. The crippled guy’s name is Anthony, and he introduces his friend, who is a bit burlier and darker haired, as being Tony. Anthony has a motorcycle and he says to the girl that Tony helps him with his bike. He mentions to the girl that actually he intends the motorcycle to be Tony and his together, as if sharing out of gratitude for Tony’s assistance. The girl seems to act also very comfortably around Tony, although they do not kiss.

Daniel and I are now on the inclined stone street together with a group of people standing in a forward-facing formation as if in a parade. Some of our group have entered a shop in order to get drunk. Those of us on the street are not drinkers and are waiting for those in the shop to get their alcohol needs done so we can continue on.

Toddy is giving a screening of his film in a large nice apartment. There are many people standing around waiting for Toddy to present. Toddy is sitting at a stool in front of the audience, and gives a soliloquy about how and why he made this film, and many interesting anecdotes. As he is talking, it becomes clear that this is an interview filming done by Daniel where he films Toddy talking about his latest film for a movie in its own right.