Some dreams are so vivid that they feel real. I had one of those last night and to be honest, it was so good a dream that I wanted it to go on forever......
I was driving through a snowstorm in a city that seemed slightly familiar. The snow was coming down pretty hard and I could see people outside shoveling their walks. I remember seeing an old friend out on the city sidewalks as I was driving down the road, trying to control the traction of my truck on the slippery roads. I didn't stop though to talk to him, as I knew I had to get to this little restaurant at the edge of town, for some reason that at that point, I couldn't remember.
I got to the restaurant and that is when I remembered why I was there. It was to see my mother! Yes, my mom, who died like 5 years ago! (I know....Weird....Why would I be going to some restaurant to visit my mother who wasn't even alive-but in the dream she wasnt dead.....She was a waitress at this little restaurant in this little snowcovered town somewhere).
I walked in to the restaurant and I remember two distinct sections. One was smoking with a bunch of booths running across a wall and to the front of the entrance, was another section that I could not see, along with a stairway leading to what looked like a basement banquet area. The lady that I saw when I first entered the restaurant said to me "Take a seat anywhere hun, someone will be right with you". I stood there contemplating what to do. Which area was my mom working in?? I was so excited to hopefully get to see her after so long. I think I was even crying....And of course I was also very confused. Here, I thought she had been dead for the last 5 years.
The dream starts to fade a little from here, but I do remember that I peaked around the corner of the one section and I heard my mom's voice in that part of the restaurant. I peaked down the stairs to the basement and saw all of these old ladies who looked what like I imagined some of my great aunts on my mom's side of the family looked like. Classy old ladies with fur coats and high heels and big bouffant hairdos, all milling around the bottom of the stairway.
So I decided of course to sit in that section. As I went to sit down, the lady who I had talked to earlier said to me "Hun....The waitress in that section is very busy today and probably wont be able to take care of you....." But I told her that is ok and that "I can wait forever....And that I REALLY wanted the waitress who was in that section!!". She told me to go ahead and sit down.
So....I am sitting down, unraveling my silverware and just sitting there fidgeting, watching this woman jump from one table to the next with the agility and grace of the best server I have ever seen. Jumbling coffee pots and water glasses in both of her hands and running from one end of that room to the other.
When all of a sudden....She sees me! She drops the coffee pot that she is holding on the floor!
She just stands there and stares at me!
I start to cry.....
She walks over to my table....
She says....."Why didn't you tell me you were coming?? I am so busy right now honey, I have 6 tables and two are "wet" and four are still "dry" and I need to get some food out.Just sit there and I will be back in minute ok???"
And then I woke up.........
(Was I in some restaurant in heaven or something? I don't know for sure, but it sure seemed like a real experience. Everything was so vivid. Maybe heaven is just another plain of existence where people still work and when they get hungry, they go out to eat. And it snows!! And my mom's relatives of course would be in the restaurant that she works in).
God, what a weird dream. I really miss her.
Time to get ready for work.
And yes, I am blubbering like a total idiot right now. I cant help it.
What is wrong with me???
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