My first "key" into this dream was the feeling that the dream pivots at the empty building and my brief discussion with Al Meador. When I enter the building, I am in search of a Djembe. When I leave, I'm in search of a donut shop.
THE OFFICE -- the office seems to represent my everyday humdrum(!) existence.
WHY A DRUM? -- in addition to the "humdrum reference mentioned above, the other potential wordplay reference is quite possibly Thoreau"s reference to a "different drummer." As I continue to consider and try to understand introversion.
THE EMPTY BUILDING -- this seems to represent the here-and-now. The room has been used significantly in the past, but is now empty -- awaiting a new usage.
AL MEADOR -- A student I knew at Drexel. Wonderfully smart in a whole variety of fields and a great but subtle sense of humor. He was -- and hopefully sitll is -- a polymath. I might qualify as a superficial polymath.
BUYING DONUTS FOR OTHERS -- It may mean something that I'm abandoning getting a drum for myself in favor of getting donuts for others.
SHABBY DONUT SHOP -- What's in here has been here for a long time.
CHAOS IN THE DONUT SHOP -- My various "parts." Some making donuts, some ordering and eating donuts.
YOUNG PRETTY WAITRESS -- See below.
CHANGE WITHOUT AN ORDER -- Reward for things I haven't done yet? Things that I did and "paid for" without recalling what/which? OR I can't expect any help from my various "parts" to get donuts? With help from Regina, the possible wordplay of "change." As in moving from this to that. And that is part -- or maybe most or all -- of what I would get from feeding donuts to those people. And my waitperson walks away because it's now on me to consider and pilot that change.
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