Introduction

I wonder at times whether dreams are a way the dead can contact the living. As I get deeper into the telling of my dream journeys I find that dreams of the deceased have formed many a dream. Last night, a vivid dream saw me travelling with my Grandma, who has been dead for twenty-one years. This is a journey of a meeting with someone who was special to my formative years. I felt she returned to check how I was and how our family is today.

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Travelling with Dad

This dream, last night, began with my father and I. Together we were in a big car travelling across the outback. We were searching to buy a property. We journeyed a drought ravaged realm. The land was utterly parched and forbidding. We came across a rather charming shack where we were approached by the owner. He was a young man who told us, “I need to move on and start life anew.”

Dad and I inspected the place asking him questions. “Is it insulated?” “Does it get too hot?” and “What about floods?” I noticed, also, that a line had been drawn on the shack’s exterior. It read, “High Water Mark.” Floods had swamped his house, too, in this land of extreme wet and dry. I wasn’t keen on buying. “How much is it?” we asked him.

He replied with an amount in that silent language of the dream. It was overpriced for what it was, an uninsulated shack in the ravaged countryside, far from the nearest town. He added, “It gets bloody hot in summer,” which was a strange way to sell. We declined to purchase.

Grandma Comes Home

Then my Dad left me. “I’ll keep looking,” I said bidding him farewell. Next, I was in the front yard of a large country home, which was well kept, in 19th Century style. Then my grandmother appeared with my sister, out of the blue, in the front garden. The garden was full of lush, verdant growth due to it being on a drip-irrigation system. The thick green against the dry dust was a haven of life. Suddenly, my sister turned on the irrigation system. Water sprayed everywhere cooling everything. Then, for some odd reason, I told her to turn it off.