Insomnium [2024]

Dream 6 - Unforeseen

June 07, 2024

In my dream, I was in my boarding house packing all of my stuff because it was already the end of the school year. After packing, I walked the streets where I resided. It was so hot that I decided to go to my uncle's house to take a bath. I brought new clothes to wear in the bathroom. I was distressed when I saw my pants got wet, so I hung them up. Suddenly, my stomach growled; I remembered I had diarrhea to deal with, so I defecated first. I was distressed again when I saw the toilet bowl full of green mold. My uncle probably hadn’t cleaned it, so I cleaned it myself.

After taking a bath, I had trouble finding the right pants to wear. I had to choose between a new one or the one that got wet. I decided to wear a new one, so I went out of the bathroom to get new pants from my eco bag on my uncle's sofa. He saw me and told me he would give me a ride to the Bulaong terminal to save time going home because of the heavy traffic. After wearing my pants, my uncle and I decided to head off. We first stopped at a place called Downtown 21 when I told my uncle that I had forgotten my eco bags containing my other clothes and the clothes in his bathroom. I told him I would get them back and asked him to wait. I gave him 50 pesos to buy fuel for his motorcycle because it might run out of gasoline.

I decided to walk to the terminal, and I raised my hand when a driver signaled to me, indicating I needed a ride. I told him I wanted to be dropped off at Zone 1, Block 8. He told me to wait as he needed to collect four passengers. I was the first passenger to arrive. The second was a teenager who only wore boxers. I thought he shouldn’t wear that in a public place, but I liked it because I’m gay, hahahaha. The third passenger came; she held a white keypad phone that played the song "Stay" by the girl group Blackpink and held a huge grilled fish. The fourth passenger was an elderly woman named Perla, whom I knew.

We then boarded a long motorcycle. I was the first to board, and the second was the boy in boxer shorts. The hair on my skin shivered when his chest touched my back. I could smell him; it was woody, and I liked it! Joking, hahahaha. We all gave our fare to the driver, which was only 17 pesos. I gave him 20 pesos, and in return, he gave me 47 pesos, which was too much change for my 20 pesos. The girl with the white keypad phone told the driver she didn’t have money to pay and asked if she could pay with the fish. The boy said no, so she got down from the motorcycle with a pout.

We then left, and Perla asked me if I wanted to become a transgender someday. I just told her that I didn’t know. We arrived at a school, and I saw a familiar face: Richard, my grade 10 classmate.