Running Club

It's unfortunate that I don't remember dreams more often. Even when I remember something about them a day or a month later, I can't remember it twice. I would write them down but I think that might ruin the magic of them and I don't really want to start dreaming consciously. I love the way dreams can represent your emotions, tell stories, repeat themselves for months, or have similar themes. But mostly -- what I've been thinking about lately -- is that I think my dreams can sometimes tell the future. Not in any important way, but just like deja vu. They're simply, really.

The other day I was conducting an interview for my writing class -- I have to write a profile on someone working in a field that I am interested in. I've worked with and interviewed teachers before, so I thought I would talk to a special education teacher. We sat in her office, adjacent to the classroom, with the door open behind me. About ten minutes in, a woman with a loud, happy voice walked into the classroom and said (either to the woman I was interviewing or to someone else in the other room), "Hey hey! Running Club!"

My interviewee looked up, smiled, and waved. I froze. I had dreamt that moment before. In fact, I think I had even woken up and mentioned it to my roommate. I told her I had dreamt of sitting in a room, talking to a woman, and someone came in to say hi (or "hey hey!") and then she'd said something else. I had remembered that she was announcing some event but nothing big, and I didn't know the woman I was talking to.

The part that's funny to me is that, I work at that school in a first grade classroom, and my kids have told me over and over again that Running Club is on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I first contacted my interviewee on Tuesday and, because I needed to do the interview within a week, she asked me to come in the next day (Wednesday). I went by the school Wednesday afternoon and she wasn't there; she had a meeting that she had forgotten to tell me about. So, the interview took place on Thursday, the day of running club. If I had caught her before the meeting on Tuesday, there would have been no "Hey hey! Running Club!" Maybe there would have been a "Hey hey! Teacher's meeting!" but I don't think so. If I had remembered my dream and known what it meant, maybe I would have known that the Wednesday appointment wasn't going to work out, and saved my time.

This isn't the first time this has happened though. Like I said, I can't remember my dreams much, but I remember thinking before that a moment in time was one that I had dreamt about. Almost exactly like deja vu. Hopefully I keep this up. If this happens again, I will write it down, but, like I said, I'm not going to start writing down all of my dreams. It would be neat if it happened with more significant moments, but that might A) ruin the surprise, or B) turn me into a late night drama star who helps the police solve crimes.