Saturday, October 3, 2009

Air Show

I’m attending some sort of public event with my parents and a sister. Audree? Or maybe it’s my niece Cameron. It seems like i’m a kid or teenager in the dream AND grown up like now. Anyways, it’s some sort of celebration along the lines of 4th of July but it’s not 4th of July. Maybe an air show like at Pope? The ‘pavilion’ where the celebration takes place is a combination of table seating in a large cafeteria-type room, an open air sports stadium like where football or soccer matches are held, and a large roundish open air cement platform suspended well above the ground somehow, under a cover but overlooking the stadium. We walk through the tables and people and get to the platform. There are already some people there so we split up to find places to sit. The view is over the stadium looking down into it. I can see that the seats are filled and there are a lot of military vehicles on the field. They look like toys from so far away. I’m careful to be considerate of the people behind me and not block their view. I lay down on my side right at the front of everybody, a few feet from the edge of the platform and rest my head on my jacket. The show starts. It’s some kind of ‘military’ thing to show off their technology. Some sort of flying objects (UFO’s) are performing amazing acrobatics inside the stadium. They look like spheres of some light metallic material, flying around each other in formation. It’s enthralling the crowd, and we watch in silence, awed by the beauty of the flying orbs.

Then the scene changes to, i guess, after the exhibition. All the people are now kind of milling around talking about what they’d just seen and i don’t like being in the crowd and go out to an outside patio. There’s a big swimming pool but nobody is in it. There are several wooden picnic tables on the patio. I can see the silhouettes of small groups (two or four) of people standing around talking. It’s dark outside except for the light that spills from big plate glass window of the ‘cafeteria’ room and some torches that are burning around the pool, lighting the water orange in places. It’s nice out here. I’m standing next to a picnic table and don’t realize there’s a man sitting on top of it. He speaks to me and then i see him. He’s older and graying with a neatly trimmed beard. Handsome, wearing a military uniform. I feel drawn to him even though he’s older than i am. We talk but i can’t remember about what now. I realize he 'likes' me and get very nervous. I tell him i have to find my family and return inside the cafeteria room where the crowds of people are still milling about after telling him goodbye. I'm torn. I don't want to leave him but i don't know how to respond to him or what i'm supposed to do, how to behave in an 'adult' situation.

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