Last night I dreamt I was in my old babysitter's house, where I have not been in about 17 years...
I was sitting in a recliner chair by the fireplace. I was an old woman. I was trying to thread a needle to do embroidery. I could not thread the needle. I became upset and started to cry.
Around this time I realized it's only a dream.
I'm suddenly my current aged self again, and I'm running through the woods near my house where I grew up. The forest floor is covered in toads and snakes. I'm not afraid, because I know the snakes are not poisonous.
Then I suddenly feel very thirsty and wake up to drink some water.
My skin feels clammy and hot.
"Each one of us is as old as the entire biological kingdom, and our
bloodstreams are tributaries of the great sea of its total memory."
-JG Ballard
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