Time Runs Away

I had a dream that I was on my way to work but my dad asked me to go with him somewhere.

We ended up in someone’s mansion on the water.

We were going to have lunch and I thought, is it lunch time already? I have to get to work …

I realized I hadn’t called to say I’d be late and I didn’t have my phone on me.

I started walking through the rooms in the house looking for a phone and I found one, but I couldn’t remember the number.

I needed my own phone to call, but I couldn’t find it.

I kept walking around the rooms and then someone was starting to cook dinner. It was 4 o’clock. And I hadn’t called work.

How could I explain that I’d meant to take a quick trip somewhere and had no idea how late it had gotten?

I think I was afraid I’d be misperceived as thoughtless, but it wasn’t thoughtlessness at all.

This is a recurring theme lately in my dreams – being worried that people will misinterpret the intention behind my behaviors as negative when they are not. In fact, they're anything but.

I think being concerned is worse than the actual misperceptions because others’ opinions of us actually have nothing to do with us.