(10/4/05) drunken fire alarm; office boat

(Entered in paper journal at 6:35 AM at my friend R's house in Brooklyn.)

Dream 1

I had caused a panic in a building by pulling a fire alarm in the basement. Everybody was evacuating. Somehow what I did, even though I meant mischief, was good. I didn't realize this because I was drunk.

A friend guided me down the stairs. He was on my left. We walked clockwise. He was trying to comfort me. He thought I was ashamed of what I had done. But I was actually only ashamed of being so drunk that I couldn't catch anything that was going on around me quickly enough.

Dream 2

I was on a boat, in  some office cabin. I had been asked to meet with two women, apparently famous women, on shore. This meant I had to take a small boat away from the ship. I may have done this.

Now we were all in a downstairs cabin that was like a trashy studio apartment. I was asked to place people's backpacks on a part of the floor where there was a puddle. Nobody saw the puddle, and I didn't say anything about it.

I moved a cooler over on top of the puddle and put two small backpacks on top of it. But my backpack was too big to fit neatly. I couldn't figure out what to do with it. I didn't want to sit it on the puddle.

Another person came in and shifted the water cooler so that it was now totally over the puddle and where the puddle might seep. Then they sat my backpack on the dry area of the floor. I felt stupid for not figuring this out myself.

I now sat back up in the office. A person was asking me to get ready to welcome another famous woman. They said nobody else could do it. i thought it would be a bother to have to head out on the boat again. But it turned out I didn't have to. We were meeting the famous woman where we were docking.