Dream had on July 4, 2024
I had a dream that I made an audition tape, and I got chosen as one of the youth guests to be on Stephen Colbert's late-night show. I was in a ballroom and was typing out this book I was working on, and then Stephen Colbert appeared behind me with this huge smile on his face, and I exclaimed, "Holy shit!" and apologized for cursing. He laughed and said it was fine and we hugged because I was so in awe of meeting Stephen Colbert and getting to be on his show. I then found out who the other people who got nominated to be on the show were, and Nicholas Braun (who plays Cousin Greg on the show Succession) was one of the people nominated. I then found myself trying to get ready for the show and then I was in a bedroom with my mom, and I was watching a movie that was in Hindi and it had Hindi subtitles. I kept changing the channel and then found myself on a movie set where I was wanting to act in the musical Rent (it was downtown.) Mom was sleeping and so I watched the movie by myself.
Then, I was in a pub, and Shiv Roy from Succession wouldn't let me and someone else use this black SUV that was parked out front. They needed to take someone to the airport because they played tuba in a symphony orchestra. Shiv was pregnant and was wearing a long black wool coat and was talking on her smartphone a lot. I think she was also carrying a cello to fit in the back seat of the van. Then I was back inside the pub, and I was in an interview at a round booster seat area with Stephen Colbert, who was asking me, Nicholas Braun, and another young person about how we overcame our addiction to drugs and alcohol (edit: in real life, I haven't struggled with addiction, and I don't think Nicholas Braun did either.) I was talking about how drinking alcohol didn't make me feel like myself and so I stopped drinking. At the end of the interview, I shook hands with Stephen Colbert, and he thanked us for coming on the show. Then, at the after-interview party, I wanted to share Buddhism with one of the servers at our table, so I saw one of the servers, a short Latina woman and saw she was standing to the side. I wrote the address of our local Buddhist center on a card with the words "Nam myoho renge kyo" on it and asked the server if she had heard of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. She said, "Someone gave me a card already" and showed me a bent Nam-myoho-renge-kyo card that someone had left. I thanked her and then was looking around the bar to find Nicholas Braun. I saw him talking with some people and I really wanted to get his attention, so I kept looking at him from across the room. I don't think he noticed me.
Then, I found myself going through these different rooms and down staircases where people were singing about love, sexuality and finding someone, and I was on a balcony where, down below, was a garden. A random person asked me, "Is the movie Trainspotting graphic?" and I said, before leaping down the balcony, "It is VERY graphic because it portrays drug use." (edit, 7/28/2024: in real life, I had read the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh several years ago, but honestly it was a depressing book so I don't know if I can handle the movie, even though I love Ewan McGregor and think he is an incredible actor.) Then, I was going down a staircase through a basement, singing in a soulful voice like Celine Dion about how I really wanted someone (in this case, Nicholas Braun) to see how perfect I was for him. Then a white man, who was an actor, was re-enacting a scene from a play and a Black woman, who was also an actress, was breaking up with him. I climbed down the staircase while singing and a bunch of other women of color were singing and swaying around, and one woman was sitting on the staircase, so I had to tell her, "Excuse me," as I walked down. Then I saw these receipts hanging down from the staircase, and realized those were the receipts from all the romantic stuff I had bought for my crush, Nicholas Braun. And then I woke up.
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