Alis's House & Serenity Cabin

Lots of dreams, only remember, sort of, the last two.

Driving and see a nice nursery with cool plants. I stop to look. Seems I know the owner. We talk about plants, and I look at her nice ponds. I'm debating what to buy. Pretty quickly it evolves into an interior scene, and the person is my friend Alis (whom I lived with in San Jose back in '90). The house and nursery are on several acres, and she has a house that might interest me. She can rent it to me for cheap, because it needs some work on the yard and exterior. Some things need to be cleaned out, but it's a neat old farmhouse. We go to look at it, and the drive and front porch are all ripped out, leaving dusty gravel. There's kind of a bleachers type arrangement where the porch should be. She says this is where "the choir" would sit back when this was some kind of camp or retreat facility. We go in, and it's plain they've been doing remodeling. Wall-to-wall carpet everywhere, which isn't my favorite but at least it's new. New kitchen, and they've tried to restore the plasterwork and moldings on the coved ceilings. Lots of little parlors and smallish rooms that lead one into another. We get to the main parlor/sitting room, and there's a fireplace in the middle of the room, as if a wall had been removed from behind it. Directly adjacent, at right angles, is another fireplace! There are a couple of kids in the room sitting on a sofa watching TV or something, and an assortment of pianos and organs. Looks like the family has been using this space as a "family room". I turn around and the "extra" fireplace is now a free-standing, folding, Art Nouveau fire screen or somesuch. It's one of the things that needs to be moved out, and I volunteer to store it "in my barn".

Later I'm on Serenity (the Firefly class cargo ship of the TV series), and happy to be officially signed on as a member of the crew. I'm walking down a passageway, which looks disappointingly like a hallway in an office building, kind of beige and vinyl-floored, with ugly hollow-core doors. We all have name plates by our doors. Mine is sandwiched about halfway between two regularly spaced doors, and my "room number" is even odd. "(something) and 1/2". Inside it's a smallish room with a cot and closet and not much else, but I'm so happy to have my own cabin on my favorite space ship. An announcement comes over the com system, alerting all crew to ready for takeoff. Kaylee or Inara or somebody comes in, can't remember. We lie down on bunks for blastoff.

Interpretations: The "house hunting" dreams always make me uncomfortable, because I'm looking for a place to call home. The Firefly dream made me feel as though I had finally found a home. Every time I dream about Serenity and/or her crew, I feel as though I'm with family and that I belong there. I feel loved and welcomed, and that I'm an important part of a crew. I love that and wish I could feel that way in real life.