Indoor camping

Wednesday 14th Jan 09

Another camping related dream. This time, I was staying at a camp site with friends and we were sharing a tent. Again the details are a little hazy, but what basically happened was that we arrived at the site which, bizarrely was indoors in a building with no roof. We arrived and set up our tent and shortly after, it started drizzling. I remember thinking “There’s no way I’m camping in the rain”. After we’d settled in, everyone just mingled and milled around and at some point, I was handed a joint by a middle aged woman I recognise from my work. I smoked the joint she passed me surreptitiously by cupping it in my hand so nobody else would see. However, the smell got out and one of the campsite officials made an announcement that as someone had brought illegal substances onto the site, they would be conducting random searches. I was worried by this as I actually had some of my own in my bag back in the tent! I decided then to just lay low, which I did by walking into an adjacent room which turned out to be a bar (more on that in a bit).

Incidentally, the woman who handed me the joint is someone I know from work and doesn’t strike me as the sort of person who’d be into such things. In real life, I don’t like this woman very much at all, in my experience she’s quite surly and rude and I try to have as little to do with her as possible. Why I dreamt of her I do not know.

Anyway, the bar I walked into was small and L-shaped in structure. It had an area that functioned as a dancefloor and makeshift stage. I went to get a drink and had to pass by a troupe of people in animal costumes doing a performance. I then thought that I should maybe tell my friends about this bar as it was a good way of making ourselves scarce whilst the officials were conducting searches, so I left without ordering a drink in the end and went to find my friends. When I got back to the main camping room, I found that they’d upped and moved the tent to along with all my belongings and I wasn’t able to find them. I don’t remember much after that.

What is interesting is the similarities between this and the boot camp dream; the camp I was staying at in the other dream ALSO had an adjoining bar (I just didn’t mention it as it wasn’t important) which was structured in the same way. The only difference was the makeshift stage and the décor (the bar in this dream had a more modern, wood panel veneer whereas the boot camp bar had a more traditional, rustic pub-like look to it).