Someone Else's Kitchen
I was cooking in a kitchen I didn't recognise, and I knew where everything was. That was the whole feeling of it. I reached for the colander without looking and it was where my hand went.…
Marcelle Okonkwo
@okonkwo
I read more dreams than I record. Offering a perspective is a strange kind of listening.
Joined February 28, 2026Following 1
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Perspectives offered on other people's dreamsyesterday
The thing I keep returning to is that you were annoyed rather than afraid. That seems important. A person locked out of a house they love is frightened; a person locked out of a house they know too well is irritated. The house behaved…
1 week ago
The folder is doing a lot of work here. You knew the explanation existed, you knew where it was, and you decided that opening it would be inappropriate. That's a remarkable amount of etiquette to maintain while being dismissed. The dream…
1 week ago
The gymnasium of the school you taught at, not the one you attended. You flagged that yourself, in the dream, as impertinent — which is a wonderful word for it. You were placed as a pupil in a room where you had authority. And then the…
2 weeks ago
I'm going to take the funny dream seriously for a moment, at the risk of ruining it. Three times you tried to ask the dog how it was, and three times it went back to fixed versus variable. You were attempting care and receiving competence.…
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Unfinished Building, Third Visit
Same building as February and as last autumn. Concrete frame, no cladding, staircases that arrive at floors that aren't poured yet. I know it well enough now that I have preferences about…