Your recent retired/pandemic dreams?

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DW and I are recently retired; this year and last were supposed to be our international travel period. Oh well.

Not normally remembering our dreams upon waking – this past week produced some doozies that we shared with one another. Apparently, our travel restricted imaginations are slipping into pandemic overdrive while dreaming. (That, or early onset dementia.)

A few days ago, I dreamt of being late for a job interview with a pair of nefarious lawyers – who happened to be cartoon characters. The tardiness was induced by having to lug a bobsled and very expensive (plus an overly complicated film camera) through the streets of a Swiss village. Because the Austrian 10-man team who owned the sled and camera were suddenly called away to the world championship final biathlon competition of bobsledding while harmonica playing. It seemed that I did not want their kit stolen in the mean streets of the Swiss Alps. My sidekick was a talking koala bear. (Woke up with the cat purring next to my head – coincidence?)

DW related her dream this morning of me taking her to get a facial. To a city 300 miles away. Inside the skanky booth with her while having a consultation for the facial was a Harley rider wearing a cannula for supplemental oxygen; still on his motorcycle and smoking cigarillos. Apparently, he was getting ready for a secret double lung transplant. DW then realized another customer was also in for a transplant and that the salon must be a front for organ harvesting. We left the salon/organ harvesting center whereupon she accused me of not wanted to report the criminal activity to the authorities for fear of getting involved. (Does she think I was complicit? Could be a tense day.)

Thinking of either us both getting therapy or having the tap water checked for heavy metal contamination this month.

What are your retired/pandemic dreams?
 
Family and travel are my goals. This month I traveled to Universal Studios in Florida, visited 2 different brothers in Florida, and visited my GF's relatives in Largo Florida. This spring I will travel to Colorado to visit my son, Seattle to visit my daughter, and Florida again for my GF's family reunion. I guess I'm better at doing than dreaming.......

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I'm looking forward to resuming our rather modest travel plans after vaccination. It's not so much fun doing takeout in the hotel room when I'm used to a dozen oysters on the half shell for appetizers.
 
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What are your retired/pandemic dreams?
This is my 12th year of retirement and although I had a few dreams about work years ago, I can't recall any lately. And, TBH, I have never had a pandemic dream (yet).

Oh no, hope this doesn't mean I'll have one tonight. :LOL: I have some terrific and fairly vivid dreams, but usually they are about whatever I am doing in my daily life in retirement.
 
My post-pandemic dream is to get back on the podium for bicycle races. I retired May 2020, over weight and out of shape. Working hard every day since to recapture the speed, weight and fitness I had years ago (before kids and massive work stresses). Back then I was a frequent visitor to the podium after a hard race.

Working every day to make the dream a reality.
 
I remember my dreams very infrequently. Luckily, I feel like I get good sleep, even if I don't remember them.
 
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