Dream of the impossible

I had a dream a while ago.

I was on vacations with my wife and my daughter, but also with my grandmother who passed away in 2004. At the hotel, my daughter disappeared, along with my grandmother. I went to look for them and I couldn't find them anywhere, although I could clearly hear them through the ceiling. I looked in the room and went outside to look around the hotel and even looked into a cellar door that was opened for some reason. Then I went to the reception and demanded, as the one who was paying for the stay, that they tell me where theyre were, but the clerks refused. At this point I threatened to call the police but they were unfazed, so I demanded that they will call the police and when they refused again, I went to a police station myself, but by the time we were back my daughter and my grandmother were waiting for us in the foyer. They still wouldn't tell me where they had been, which additionally pissed me off. And then I learned my wife was on it too. No one wanted to tell me anything, which was further infuriating. As a result, I said that I am refusing to take a part in any vacation activities and I will go wherever they want, but I refuse to have any fun of it.

Then I woke up and I was still pissed, and although I knew it was just a dream, I needed a moment to calm down. It helped me that I had to take my dog for a morning walk. That always clears mind: when you experience the nature and pick up your pet's droppings, etc.

I don't read dreams literally. I think that the whole thing reflected the atmosphere at work where we were closing a project and maybe I was not happy with how we were communicating within the company. So, on the surface it was a rather unpleasant dream: I was pissed off, I woke up pissed off, and needed a moment to recover (which didn't take long).

But here's the caveat: my daughter spent some time with my grandmother. And they have never met. My daughter was born almost 10 years after my grandmother's passing, so that *will never* happen. But in the dream it did. And so when the emotion of being pissed off wore of, I realised there was something beautiful in it. Even if they hid from me in a way that I was not able to figure out till this day.

Originally published as a thread on November 23rd, 2025.