Banjo Music On a Highway Dream

Dream 4/14/08

I haven’t slept too soundly the past few days, and this morning it caught up with me when I unfortunately slept through my alarm. Usually I try not to wake Seren with the shrill, ear-splitting terror that is my alarm, so I stuff the clock under my pillow to stifle the noise. This morning however, I was just tired enough and just stubborn enough to ignore my alarm completely. The two hours of un-planned sleep led me to a strange dream.

The dream was about my mother again. We were driving on the highway with open windows, late for something unmentioned. My mother was driving and I was quite nervous about this situation. She drove faster and faster, swerving out of the lane to pass slower cars. The car wheels sketched and my breathing quickened uncontrollably. I realized suddenly that there was music filling the car. It was music from the car stereo that sounded like a ravenous banjo playing an unthinkably fast beat, twanging and strumming almost comically in this dangerous situation. I tried to ask my mother to slow down, but she calmly explained that it was impossible for us to be late. The oncoming traffic began to thicken and as my mother swerved into the adjacent lane, the car nearly missed the honking cars that zoomed past of. The thumping banjo music played louder, as the car increased in speed.

At this moment Seren woke me up, and I gratefully threw on clothes so that we could head to class and make it on time.