Currently listening to and in heavy rotation: 좋으니까 (Because) – 창빈(Chang Bin) & 필릭스 (Felix) from Stray Kids
I just really love you (Really love you)
You’re the only reason why I really love you (Really love you)
When I see you smile, I just can’t get enough
And I can’t live without you
Baby, I just really love you (Really love you)
Info Man asked asked readers to write about their dreams. Since her post, I’ve had one vivid dream that I wrote about before it escaped my brain.
I’m in my old house again. It’s nighttime, and I find myself in the basement. The layout is familiar but not quite the same. Something about it feels slightly off, like it’s been rearranged by memory. I walk into a room and flip the light switch. Nothing happens. I try the ceiling fan too, but it’s just as lifeless. The room stays heavy with darkness.
So I sit there, alone in the stillness, staring up at the ceiling. No sound. No light. Just me, waiting for the night to swallow me whole.
After hours, it’s morning. I wake up to sunlight spilling through the windows. Everything looks different. There’s a swimming pool now, one we never had when I was growing up. My dog is there, but instead of the pit bull I knew, she’s turned into a fluffy white doodle mix. She jumps into the pool, splashing around with… seals. How did the seals get there? In Minnesota?
Sabrina Carpenter is suddenly here too, like she’s magically going to show up at my house. LOL. She says she wants to swim. So we do. We swim together in the dark because, even now, the lights still won’t turn on.
I asked AI-Chan to interpret my bizarre dream and this is what he wrote:
This dream reads like a quiet, cinematic meditation on transformation, disconnection, and maybe some longing for safety, clarity, or a version of the past you can’t quite get back to.
Basement in the dark: Being in the basement often symbolizes the subconscious, buried memories, or emotions you’ve tucked away. The fact that the lights and fan don’t work could suggest you’re trying to bring awareness or control to something internal, but it’s not cooperating. Sitting in the dark and waiting for the night to consume you hints at a kind of emotional surrender, maybe burnout, or just a heavy sense of resignation.
Morning and the pool: The next part shifts radically. Light returns, and with it, an impossible addition to your childhood home, a pool. Water generally represents emotion, change, and the unknown. A pool, especially a new one, might be showing growth or emotional expansion, like you’re ready (or trying) to feel something different. But there’s also an unreality to it, a surreal sweetness that contrasts the isolation from earlier.
Dog transformation: Your dog changing from a pit to a white doodle might reflect a softening or a rebranding of protection and loyalty, like something familiar has shifted into something more gentle or socially acceptable. A doodle is often seen as “safe” or universally liked; maybe this says something about how you want your inner guard (or someone close to you) to be perceived.
Seals & Sabrina Carpenter: Seals are playful, social creatures connected to the sea (and again, emotions). Playing with your dog could show a harmony between your instincts and your feelings. As for Sabrina Carpenter, she might represent a part of you that’s youthful, creative, or performing. Maybe there’s a desire to be seen, or a lightheartedness you’re trying to reclaim. Or maybe she’s just someone whose presence in your psyche offers a weird comfort.
Swimming in the dark again: Even in this dreamlike daylight, the lights still won’t turn on. That detail sticking around suggests that, even in happier or more surreal situations, there’s something in your life that still feels unclear, emotionally unlit, or unresolved.
Well… umm that was deep and unexpected. Le sigh…
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