Now, what’s odd about that last dream is that the Seinfeld episode on tonight was The Pledge Drive, where Jerry, after Kramer’s suggestion, cashes some checks found in old cards from his grandmother.
August 2006
This morning I had a really terrible dream.
The premise was that I had been co-lo’ing a machine at my friend Dennis’s, place of business. In my dream he ran a co-lo facility, but he doesn’t in real life. The building was my stereotypical business-office-research-facility that makes appearances frequently in my dreams, when the dream’s plot calls for it.
When I arrived at the facility, I had trouble finding where my hardware was located, and there were a lot of conference rooms I kept popping in and out of while people were having meetings. In many areas, it was really vacant and the lights were turned off. I don’t think I ever actually saw Dennis, but I knew it was where he worked.
Some members of my family were there, and my mom told me that my father was really mad at me. So now I was trying to find both my hardware and my dad, and it was getting really stressful because I couldn’t figure out why my dad would be mad at me. I came across my dad, and he wouldn’t talk to me. I finally found out, while talking to other family members and continuing to search for my computer hardware, that he was not speaking to me because he was angry about a birthday card I had received from a friend of his many years ago. This card apparently contained a check for something like $10 or $25 or something, and I had neglected to cash it. This was really disturbing because my dad is not like this; he’s understanding and he’s not the kind of person to get so angry at something that is beyond anyone’s control.
I tried to explain to him that I don’t remember the card or the birthday he was so concerned about. He told me that his friend took not cashing the birthday check very personally, and since then had changed so much that my dad hardly knew who he was anymore. At this point, I found my computer hardware in the bottom of an unmarked drawer, it was a SFF desktop machine and was not plugged in or in-use at all, and was just thrown in there with a bunch of cables. I thought this was puzzling because I wouldn’t put a desktop machine in a co-lo facility. I still had no idea who my dad’s friend was, and doubted I had ever actually met him. My dad said he was a long time friend of his, and if he had ever met me, it was when I was a baby. He reiterated that he couldn’t believe I would just forget to cash a birthday check, but he seemed slightly better about it now that we had talked, but I had an impression that he was still somewhat angry and disappointed. Throughout this whole dream, the whole scenerio of why this uncashed birthday check was such a big deal was completely inexplicable to me.