Apartment dream.

I frequently have dreams about my "old apartments". Sometimes it's the big old apartment building, sometimes the tiny attic apartment.

Often, they aren't the same in the dream, but it's recognizable. Usually, if I dream about the big old building, it's kind of dread. Like, "I forgot I had all this stuff here, what am I going to do with it all?", and there's a lot of dust and fish tanks full of slime and dead fish etc. They are sad dreams usually, about getting rid of things and feeling burdened by the past. I'm not even sure why, because living in that building wasn't that bad, and I really didn't even have that much stuff. I wouldn't have thought there was even a lot of emotional burden.

Anyhow, this dream was about the big old apartment building. First, I dreamed that a woman from the riding barn (who is in her '20's) moved to this building, and I was visiting her. Then, I 'remembered' that I still had an apartment there, from when I was in MY 20's. I still had the key. It was literally the next apartment beside hers.

It was full of stuff, but somehow it wasn't that dirty or awful, and it was okay. It was like a walk down memory lane. Clothes that I remember having. Books. It's funny, because in the dream I was musing about paradox, the idea that there were things in the apartment that I kept, and would now be in my house, and how do I keep track of what I get rid of? Two of my sisters showed up, and they were the younger versions, more like how I think of them in my head (I only go home to visit twice a year, and I'm shocked at how they've changed, because in my mind I remember them as being a lot younger), and they were just standing there smoking and talking. I was thinking that I had to clear this all out, and at least it would be easy to get rid of the clothes because I wouldn't likely wear any of them.

Usually these dreams are sad, but this one wasn't. It wasn't like I had to go back and live there, and it wasn't like it was a terrible mess, it was just an apartment. I had to clear it out, but that didn't seem overwhelming this time, and some of it I kept anyhow.

I guess this is just me, visiting my '20's.