Toronto pleasures

[vaneramos]

Last night I dreamt that the landlord had kicked out my neighbours. They had lived in a rickety building next door, rather than upstairs. He tore it down and paved it over so that no one could ever live there again. Somehow this made more space in my apartment. An extra bedroom appeared. A tiny bedroom and living room merged into one large room, part of which I turned into a dining room, making more space in the kitchen.

This could be wishful thinking. More likely it was due to the fact that I was sleeping contentedly next to Danny djjo. When he comes to Guelph, he marvels at how peaceful the streets are, free of the throbbing undercurrent of a large city. When I visit him, I notice how peaceful the house is at night. At home, even my sleeping brain is alert for the potential onset of drunken swearing, ape-like beings trudging up and downstairs, and killer dogs being walked every morning at 5 a.m.

Of course there's the added contentment that comes in the afterglow of plenty of good sex. As sure as the days have started growing longer, my libido has returned. Danny has recovered from the nasty cold he had at New Years. Once again we're shagging like the weekend we met.

Here is one nice thing about temperatures in the minus twenties. When you're slogging along a snowy street in a stinging wind, when your beards freeze and your shoulders ache from shivering, it's awfully nice to know the handsome cub bundled beside you will soon be wrapped naked in your arms in a warm bed.

I get two whole weeks of this. I'm very lucky.

Comments

[that-dang-otter.livejournal.com]

I often have dreams where I find a new, previously undiscovered room in my own house. (It's generally not any house I've been in, but it's "my" house in the dream.)

Then one day, I really did find a new room in my house, in a place that I'd never bothered to look. I was astounded.

Then I woke up.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Hehe. ;-)

It's unusual for me to dream about where I live. My real apartment doesn't have tiny rooms like the one in my dream, although I'm cramped for space because I have too many belonging, and my head space is cramped by the drama going on upstairs.

[roosterbear.livejournal.com]

Last night I dreamt that the landlord had kicked out my neighbours. They had lived in a rickety building next door, rather than upstairs. He tore it down and paved it over so that no one could ever live there again. Somehow this made more space in my apartment. An extra bedroom appeared.

Wow. Usually, dreams about your home are about your internal landscape. Running with that interpretation, finding new rooms is a representation of finding new aspects of yourself, and the specific location of said rooms is telling as well (basement equals subconscious, upstairs means mental space, that kind of thing). The fact that they were not in your building but rather next door suggests that you've let go of your participation in their drama, and the fact that their building got so utterly erased makes that angle seem even more likely. And in letting go of your participation in that drama, you've discovered a new room in yourself.

Funny, or maybe again telling, that it was a bedroom, since as you've said you just had some really good sex and snuggling.

I could be totally off the mark, but this dream just really jumped out at me.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

In reality I live on the second floor with my neighbours on the third. In the dream I also lived on the second floor, and that was where a living room and bedroom became combined in one. The new bedroom was upstairs, on the third floor.

Your interpretations strikes me as dead on, but only in a temporary way. I have looked forward to this visit with Danny partly because it allows me to get away from that problem for two weeks. I don't worry about things like that when I'm away. When I go home, I doubt that I will be able to maintain that peace of mind.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I get two whole weeks of this. I'm very lucky.

Indeed. I hope you enjoy every moment.

At the same time, I hope you don't get two whole weeks of temperatures in the -20s (even in C that's unnecessarily cold), if for no other reason than it probably means unnecessarily cold weather here as well.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

We'll see. The forecast calls for milder temps over the weekend.