The Bridesmaid Dream of 10/19/06

Last night I dreamed that I was to be a bridesmaid in someone's wedding. I arrived at my hotel and had to find room 1032. It turns out that I've gone looking for room 1032 before, because there's a trick to finding it and I can remember blundering around for a long time in previous dreams, but this time, I only made one wrong turn. The trick is that you have to walk from a corridor of hotel rooms through an administrative office and out the other side to where the corridor of hotel rooms begins again. It's scary to walk through the office because you think someone will challenge you about what you're doing wandering through with a bunch of bags, but they never do. You just have to walk purposefully and don't appear to be lost.

I found room 1032 and it was very nice. It was, in fact, very similar to our hotel room at the Hotel Josef in Prague. I only stayed in 1032 for one night and then had to leave for a more hostel-like accomodation, which was very similar to one of the haciendas we stayed at in Ecuador. All the rooms there shared a bathroom, so I was trying to get ready for the wedding in a tiny bathroom that others wanted to use as well. I actually got quite a bit done before someone knocked, but I didn't manage to take a shower. Don't ask me what I was doing in there, not peeing and not showering, because I don't know. All I know is that I was working feverishly the entire time and yet got done none of what I really needed to do.

I finally relinquished the bathroom to another woman because I felt bad about how long I'd been in there. I thought that she might be in and out quickly, and then I could use it again. That didn't happen. I ended up trying to go back to room 1032, thinking that I could use the shower there. Sure enough, my key worked in the lock even though it wasn't my room any longer and was full of someone else's luggage. I dared to brush my teeth and take a shower, but I was too afraid to crap because I thought that the real occupant might return and find me. Instead, Josh found me and pointed out how the tiles in the shower were different than they had been the last time we'd stayed there. The new tiles had tiny signs of the Zodiac on them.

He was in a great hurry and asked me what time I had to be at the wedding and I looked at the clock and saw that it was 10am. I was supposed to be at the wedding at 10, but I couldn't remember if we were starting then or if that was just the time that the principal players were told to arrive.