Makin' My Way Downtown

The dream that scared me

Around 1:30am (approx. 10 minutes ago), I had a dream. The dream was so real, I wasn’t able to recognize at first that I was indeed dreaming.

The last thing I remembered just before I dozed off was that I was in a fetal position, and a pillow was between my legs.

And then the dream began. In my dream, here was what I saw:

I opened my eyes since I wanted to shift my position. I saw the edge of the pink pillow I was hugging, the oval table, the door, the fan, my phone attached to my hand etc. Basically everything was nothing like a dream. And then when I tried to move, I couldn’t. It was as if my whole body was paralyzed. I looked down and saw that I was covered with a blanket. The thing that alarmed me was, I don’t use blankets when I sleep, and so, that was the time that I knew that my dream was only a dream. I remember shaking my head and then I woke up in the exact same fetal position.

Now, how do we really know when we are awake or dreaming if the dream seemed so real and just a mere continuation of reality? If it weren’t for the blanket, I wouldn’t have figured that out.

Figuring Things Out

My wallet cries to the fact that I spend almost P200 a day for my fare to work. A lot of my friends and people I know already gave me alternative routes to take, however, a part of me doesn’t want to sacrifice comfort with anything else—with the current route I’m taking, I still have the opportunity to doze off even for an hour.

I did some pencil-pushing the other night, and I figured out that one-fourth of my daily expenditures is being allocated to tryke rides going outside of the village. That’s P50 a day/P500 per cut-off/P1000 a month, give and take.

If that P50 was spent for food, then I could stick with my P200 limit a day. However, this isn’t the case.

Since I noticed that a big chunk of my daily expenditures come from tryke rides, I decided to look for apartments or condos outside of BF. I already started canvassing apartments in my area, and I’ve found some promising ones. =)