Dream a Little Dream...

I had what can only be described as comical dream last week that I keep remembering. Usually I don't remember my dream, but this time I remembered the main "plot" and as I started thinking about it the details started to fill themselves in.

I was dreaming that I was approached by an angel (most likely a result of the show Supernatural being on every night in our house) telling me that my husband and I are going to have the chance to change one event in our past...I don't remember why...yet.

He did say that the change could result in some changes in our current present.  At that point I turned him down flat, because I said any possible change that could result in my children not being in my life was unacceptable and he could just shove it.  He got annoyed and said, fine, bring them with you.  Well okay then!

The next thing I know  I am 21 at the Wesley Foundation on MSU's campus and it is summer of 2000.  Trevor and I were just married a month or so before and most of our friends were still engaged/single, and I was a senior in college.  So the 4 of us are standing there and our campus minister, Phil walks into the room.  I guess we had this conversation with the angel, but we knew we were allowed to tell a few people about our situation if we trusted them, so Trevor and I explained to Phil what happened and that we are in our 30's but not in the bodies of our 20-something selves, and by the way meet our 4 year old and 18 month old.  HAHAHA.

We didn't know what event we were supposed to change...obviously we were supposed to get married since we were transported to the month AFTER our wedding.  I remember sitting and figuring out when Brandon would have been born.  After realizing it was before Trevor and I even met, we discussed with the angel who said that no one would think about it and would just accept that we have kids.  Well, cool!

So we start living our newlywed life, although it was much more comical with us both being mentally much older.  Meeting our friends again was particularly entertaining.  At one point I remember my friend Heidi coming up and being very uncomfortable talking to me.  Knowing her as well as I do and knowing I could trust her, I said very bluntly, "wait, do we still hate each other at this point or have we gotten over it and moved on yet?  Because you saw her being born (pointing to my daughter) and I will be there when your kids are born so we get over it and I just don't feel like holding a grudge I got over a decade ago."  She was speechless (the Heidi today would have said something funny back, but my memory of the Heidi then would have been pure shock).

There were other funny moments, including talking to a VERY young Daniel and Jenny- they are, after all, the youngest of our college friend circle, Trevor had a few hilarious moments with his buddy Drew when his 30 year old brain kicked in while they were trying to do stupid 20 something stunts.

Just like any dream, things that make absolutely NO sense seem to fit perfectly in the dream.  True to form, we had just that.  Although the outside of our cars when we went to "go home" that afternoon looked like our geo metro and 1979 malibu, once the door opened the geo was my sienna and the malibu was Trevor's truck.  And it made perfect sense.

When we were first married we lived on Lyons Avenue in Morehead.  We still lived on that street, but instead of the living in the little yellow, one bedroom house it was our current house, fully stocked as it is right now.  Again, perfectly normal.

There were a few other details that I recall.  I remember having the discussion with Trevor about stopping 9/11 since it was over a year out.  The angel said no, we could not change that as much as we wanted to.  No one would listen and we would just be accused of being part of the plot if we knew about it, so we told NO ONE of what was to come there.  We did plan to visit NYC and go to the observation deck in 2000 so we could see it and let the kids say they were there before the towers fell.

I also remember asking the angel, this in front of Phil, Jenny, Daniel, Heidi, Denny, and Drew a few questions.  In hindsight it is funny that those are the prominent people at the foundation during my dream because I don't think all of us would have been hanging there together in 2000, but hey, it's my dream.  We asked about helping ourselves financially, and the angel said, if we want to increase our worldly fortunes, then that was permitted.  Trevor and I looked at each other for a good 5 seconds before we blurted out together "Google...buy Google."  When I processed this dream with my husband in the here and now, he said I should have said facebook, but that would have been more work to create the programming.  LOL.

There were a few other moments with the kids.  One I remember is trying to explain to Brandon that he couldn't play with his friends now.  When he saw Jenny and Heidi, he immediately asked where Levi, Sammy, and Ruthie were.  Now since neither was married yet, that was comical to see their reactions.  He asked for his friends too but we had to say that they haven't been born yet.  So our 20 something friends got to witness their first 4 year old temper tantrum.  To all of these people in 2011 it would have been nothing and probably more laugh worthy, but to the 2000 crowd it was horrifying and frightening for them.  Trevor and I laughed.

I never found out what I was supposed to change, although I have a few ideas.  Either we never found out or I just can't remember that part of the dream.

Trevor and I in 2000...