I had a strange dream during a nap sunday afternoon.
I was walking along a second floor in a kind of pavillion. There were cut outs like windows but with no glass. They were about waist high and had a smooth ledge on them kind of like a window sill. If you looked through you could see down to a courtyard, it was paved or maybe it was indoors and made of marble, with a fountain in the center. Several people were milling around. I think I might have worked there.
Anyway, there was a toddler sitting on a ledge with it's mother holding it (I don't remember if it was a boy or a girl, just a kind of generic little kid). The child seemed to slump and I thought, "That child is going to fall. But surely the mother knows what she's doing, she won't let it fall." So I didn't say anything. And of course the mother let go of the child, almost as if she didn't care, and of course it fell. I was going down some stairs so I didn't see it actually fall, but when I came out, there it was on ground level. I thought "I should have trusted my instinct and said something."
Then I looked up to see what the mother was doing and I noticed another mother in another window and her toddler also slumped in that strange way and I thought "that one's gonna fall too" but I was too far away for the mom to hear me. I looked away and sighted a 3rd mother sitting on some stairs with her little girl (hair ribbon, frilly dress, tights, black maryjanes) who was a little older, but had the same ragdoll look as the other two and I knew she was going to fall, it just wasn't going to be fatal because she was older and it was only 3 or 4 steps. Just then the second child struck the pavement and I went running for the secretary (my secretary?)
The secretary didn't understand I meant she needed to call the paramedics again because a second child had fallen so that was a whole discussion too, but she finally did it. The second mother came running down the stairs, all upset that something had happened to her baby, but it seemed odd because she hadn't seemed to care much when she sat the child on the ledge.
I don't remember the rest - perhaps I woke up at this point - but it stuck with me this evening. It feels significant in some way, but I can't make any sense out of it. Anybody got any feedback?
I was walking along a second floor in a kind of pavillion. There were cut outs like windows but with no glass. They were about waist high and had a smooth ledge on them kind of like a window sill. If you looked through you could see down to a courtyard, it was paved or maybe it was indoors and made of marble, with a fountain in the center. Several people were milling around. I think I might have worked there.
Anyway, there was a toddler sitting on a ledge with it's mother holding it (I don't remember if it was a boy or a girl, just a kind of generic little kid). The child seemed to slump and I thought, "That child is going to fall. But surely the mother knows what she's doing, she won't let it fall." So I didn't say anything. And of course the mother let go of the child, almost as if she didn't care, and of course it fell. I was going down some stairs so I didn't see it actually fall, but when I came out, there it was on ground level. I thought "I should have trusted my instinct and said something."
Then I looked up to see what the mother was doing and I noticed another mother in another window and her toddler also slumped in that strange way and I thought "that one's gonna fall too" but I was too far away for the mom to hear me. I looked away and sighted a 3rd mother sitting on some stairs with her little girl (hair ribbon, frilly dress, tights, black maryjanes) who was a little older, but had the same ragdoll look as the other two and I knew she was going to fall, it just wasn't going to be fatal because she was older and it was only 3 or 4 steps. Just then the second child struck the pavement and I went running for the secretary (my secretary?)
The secretary didn't understand I meant she needed to call the paramedics again because a second child had fallen so that was a whole discussion too, but she finally did it. The second mother came running down the stairs, all upset that something had happened to her baby, but it seemed odd because she hadn't seemed to care much when she sat the child on the ledge.
I don't remember the rest - perhaps I woke up at this point - but it stuck with me this evening. It feels significant in some way, but I can't make any sense out of it. Anybody got any feedback?
