Dream of the Week: Lake House

I've just arrived at a family event at a lake house. I am with my cousin and we are wandering through the house looking for our rooms. It's unclear if the family owns the house or if we are renting in out. My cousin and I are on the top floor and we settle into a room with twin beds. She talks about how amazing the view is. At first, I don't believe her but when I look out the window I can see the ocean. I think to myself, wow, she's right - why would our family give us the room with the best view? It didn't seem right.

We leave the room and I can see now see out of another window. The view is of the lake we are there to visit. The water is perfectly, emerald, perfectly still and so beautifully rendered as if it's from long exposure photography. I stare for a bit and think, there's no way the water is that beautiful here! I think it must be a dream. I'm still not sure but then I see people walking on the water and I decide to check with a nose plug. Yes! I can breathe. This is a dream. ⚡️

Now lucid (though low level), the scene shifts and I standing in line with other people waiting for a pay phone in what is now a hotel. A woman in her lates 20s is in front of me wanting to call her boyfriend. She has that kind of spark in her eye so I think she'll be good to talk to. We chat about something for a moment and the person on phone now finishes. I ask her if I can use the phone before her. She's is willing to let me go as long as it's fast, she really wants to call her boyfriend. I get on the line hoping I can get a dream message from it. I pick up the phone and a male voice starts talking in gibberish and sounds far away. I don't seem to say anything to him and he seems to give me nothing useful.

Eventually I hang up. She and I start talking again as she can't seem to get on the phone for some reason. I wait with her and decide to ask her who she is. She shakes a bit, looks down and says in a friendly way, "oh what, what are you doing?" I ask her what she represents. Friendly still, she says, "what? Oh you're too sensitive right now." As if happy but trying to hold her agency and not get shaken out of who she is. She's getting distraught that she can't reach her boyfriend so I kiss her. I wake up.

Quick Reflection:
False Keywords! They strike again. Kind of like the dreaming version of April Fool’s - how fitting. Since I’ve collected two this week, I’ll go into what these are. I don’t have a traditional dream journal. I wake up throughout the night (by design) and each time I awake, I scribble down my dream as keywords on a notepad - in the dark - and go back to sleep. In the morning, I have a pile of papers that I later record in my digital dream journal. A “False Keyword” dream is when I wake up and write down those keywords… only it’s a dream! This is otherwise known as a “false awakening” and it happens all…the…time.