I’ve mentioned at times my utter inability to remember dreams. I know that I dream — or, at least, I feel<\/i> that I’ve dreamed. I’ve been in the dream state while awake, which is a very strange place to be. But, by and large, my dreams are walled away in my consciousness and inaccessible to me.<\/p>\n
Imagine my surprise, then, when I woke up this morning with a vivid memory of a dream.<\/p>\n
I went in a GameStop. Well, technically<\/i> it was a GameStop. It had originally been an EB Games, in particular a store that was either built or remodeled in the 2000-2002 time frame.<\/p>\n
EB stores of that time had a distinctive “look.” The stores had a certain LEGO-like look. The walls were solid colors, blue and red. The overstock area was a solid green. The cashwrap area was a bright yellow. Primary colors. LEGO colors. After 2002, the designs toned down the LEGO-ness; the cashwraps stayed yellow, but the primary blues and reds were replaced with grays.<\/p>\n
The store, in my dream, was a LEGO-styled EB Games.<\/p>\n
Someone who was working in the store knew me, though I didn’t know him. We talked, and while I don’t know what the conversation was about I do know that the conversation made me feel a bit anxious.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, my old boss — my district manager from North Carolina — was there.<\/p>\n
We stepped outside of the store. He wanted to talk to me about coming back to work for the company.<\/p>\n
I don’t remember precisely how the conversation went, but I do know that I was quite vehement that I wouldn’t, and the conversation became heated. As much as I loved working for EB Games, I despised working for GameStop; one company favored original thought, the other wanted passive drones, and I’m too much of a free spirit to have ever fit comfortably in the GameStop mold. But more than that, I simply wasn’t willing to work the stupid number of hours that GameStop required of its managers.<\/p>\n
There was one other oddity to the dream, which I won’t mention. Just someone surprising, because he had nothing to do with EB Games ever.<\/p>\n
The dream upset me. There was nothing wrong with the dream. It was actually nice to revisit some aspect of the past in some way. But I couldn’t imagine any reason why I would want to return, and I don’t know why I had to have a conversation about the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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