I had another bizarre dream last night. My husband and I were spending a lot of time at this ramshackle house full of girls, ages 7-17. There were about seven of them as well as two young women in their late teens or early twenties that lived there. The girls were all deeply troubled and I was trying to help them sort through their various emotional problems. I was acting like a counselor or something. Anyway, Raul was working on a computer problem they'd been having. While all this was going on, I became friendly with the two young women and found out that they were the mothers of all the girls. For some reason, this really shocked me and I started crying, saying, "but I thought you were their sisters."
Their house was littered with trash and I particularly remember their front yard being a total mess, full of newspapers and scattered with junk. Inside the house, they kept about five cats, one of which was our cat Hugo, whom we had to put to sleep a couple weeks ago because he was suffering with kidney failure. In my dream, we had to put the snake to sleep because the cats kept attacking it and every time I looked at Hugo, he was curled up and sleeping. Somehow, I knew in my dream that he was very sick.
Around this time, a very large man with grey hair and a matching beard showed up. He was like "the boss" or something, and may have been the young women's father. He demanded that Raul stay in the house because he had such good "organizational skills" and could lend some sort of unity to the mess their lives had become. He also said that Raul would be paid handsomely for this. Without warning, he turned to me and said, "If you want to stay here, you may, but we'll need you to clean this place up, starting with the front yard." I became very emotional and started crying.
That's all I remember. Maybe this dream was a reflection on how much I hate cleaning. Hmmm……