cbernard

I dreamed that it was the start of the school year and I was supposed to pick up my class schedule and then start going to classes, but I had lost my keys and key card and I needed the card to get into my classrooms. I started looking for it, and for some reason it was dark outside even though it was morning. I reach into my pocket to see if my card is there, but it is not. My keys are in there, though. I decide to go to my dorm room to look for my key card. I enter the dorm building and find my room. I go in using my keys, and find my roommate from last year standing there instead of who I'll actually be rooming with. Seeing my old roommate struck me as really odd, and I was thinking, "how can this be possible," but he said something about having signed up as my roommate again. I was fine with having him again, so I stopped worrying about how it had happened. We had a huge, long, room, about the size of three hotel rooms all lined up in a row. On the left were the beds, and on the right were a bunch of drawers. Everything was wooden, including the floors, and dusty/old. There was a wraparound window running from about halfway down the right wall to about halfway down the back wall. I looked out it, and it was bright outside. I looked at the clock to see how this was possible, and it was 10-something. I thought that it was probably the tinting of the windows that caused the difference in brightness. I decided to look through the dresser and see if my card was in there. I opened the top three drawers, but they all had my roommate's clothes in them. He had left the bottom two drawers for me. While I was searching the drawers, Christian came in. We said hi to him, and then I reached in my pocket and pulled out my wallet. I opened it and looked at all the cards. None of them looked like my key card except for one. I tried to pull it out to get a better look, but it was really hard to pull out. I finally got it, and it was a gift card instead of my key card, but I was still pretty excited because I had pulled it out successfully. We were all laughing, and I looked at the clock. It was 11:21. I was thinking that I probably had a morning class, which meant either that I had already missed it or it was still going. I decided just to go to class and hope someone would let me in. My roommate and I tried to talk in Chinese but we didn't know any words, so we started laughing again. We started walking outside, and ran into my roommate's friend, only he called him his little brother. Then we went to my roommate's car to get his keys. I got in the passenger side and reached across to pull his keys out of the ignition. My roommate and Christian were following along. They were laughing about something, and my roommate says, "That's bad." I say, "Simpsons bad?" He says, "Yeah." and we laugh even more because that was funny for some reason. I turn the key and pull it out.


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There were so many places in this dream where I should've done a reality check, but my brain just rationalized it every time. Any tips for how to get better at this?