I was walking in the streets, a mix of the neighbourhood where I used to live when I was a teenager and some streets in São Paulo. It was night, and I walked inside bars and cantinas, for no apparent reason. I think I saw someone who used to go to art school with me, but we didn’t talk to each other.
Eventually I ended up in the top of a hill. It wasn’t night anymore, it was late afternoon. The place looked like the area where my parents live, with some small buildings around a green area where the kids play in the grass and around the trees. But there were 30 cops in there, joyfully chatting with the nannies and the kids. The sky was grey and it looked like it could rain any time.
Suddenly I noticed something really weird.
Around the little plaza, there were several huge animals. I don’t even know how to call them. Imagine a longer elephant, almost like a dinosaur, but with a head way too small for the size of that body. They were four times larger than the horses who were attached to them by leather leashes. The bigger animals had long leather strings coming out of their asses, as if their tails were shaped like collars and leashes and were all attached around the horses’ necks. As the big animals moved around the streets, one of the horses started to freak out for being pulled around like a dog, and started to neigh and whine. The giant animal stopped walking, turned his head, raised a front paw and started waving it up and down, while saying: “Calm down… it’s OK… relax…”
After that I arrived at a house I have never seen before, but part of my family lived in it. They were waiting for me to arrive. There was a little white gate in an outside corridor with a rubber pink thing in it to lock it and stop the house dog from opening the gate.
I entered the house and there was a pizza box waiting for me, but when I opened it, it was the ugliest pizza I have ever seen. It looked like a nightmare version of something out of Pizza Hut, covered with a catchup lake. I couldn’t eat it.
Then I woke up, with a very strong sense that those fantastic animals were real. It took me a long time to realize it was just a dream.
