Not much has changed, if at all, in my sleeping patterns despite working from home. I'm still having the usual insomnia when I first go to bed, followed by waking up at around 2:30 or 3am then again at 5 or 5:30am. But I am finding that I am having some quite vivid dreams between my 5/5:30 wake up and when I finally get up around 7am.
I had two quite interesting ones, one this morning and t'other yesterday morning.
This morning's dream was one of those which seem to go on for quite a while. I was living in some sort of dingy, old building, there was another woman there (can't remember what she looked like, wasn't someone I knew) who was unlocking the door while I waited to go in. Can't remember exactly what it looked like, just a metal door with two locks, looked old-ish. Inside there was just a staircase down to the rest of the accommodation, which seemed to be just a big area with some boxes piled at one end and perhaps a door on either side, again with metal walls I think.
At one point Mr Zebra appeared, but bizarrely I referred to him as "my brother" when I asked the woman if he could come in and visit. Mr Zebra suggested we go into my room to talk, which happened to be the door on the right of the pile of boxes. Inside this room there was a bed straight in front of us. To the left was an old fireplace but it had curtains over it and when Mr Zebra opened these, there was a window.
To the right of the bed was another window, and when I opened those curtains I saw the most beautiful scenery outside - a lawn and loads of colourful flowers, with buildings beyond. (Very vivid colours of flowers). This seemed very important to me, as if telling me that it didn't matter how horrible the place was inside, there was a very nice place outside and I shouldn't forget that.
Mr Zebra and I talked, and at first I wanted to ask him if there was any way he could find me a nicer flat than this (I got the impression Mr Zebra had found this place for me), so that I could look after my mum (although she wasn't in the dream at all). But as I was thinking this, I thought how I'd need to find a job and how would I do that, and then I said to him it would be much easier if I could move back in with him, and mum could stay with us. She could look after the dogs while we were at work, etc. (I have no idea why we were apparently living apart in this dream). Mr Zebra seemed to agree with this idea.
Then the dream changed to a view of the house we were apparently now sharing, showing a white house to the left, a garage in front and an 'annexe' sort of building to the right. This seemed to be owned by someone I used to work with at a prior job (at least, in the dream it did) but I couldn't remember his number to text him to ask if it was alright to move in. The house/courtyard layout didn't resemble anything I know of in real life.
Then at some point Mr Zebra and I were on a train, going to visit his family, and pleasingly neither us nor any of the other passengers were wearing masks. Then someone said "the transport police are coming" and straightaway collectively the entire group of passengers groaned and we all pulled up our t-shirts to act as makeshift masks. We got off the train with me holding an envelope over my mouth/nose as we walked past the police in case he turned around and saw we didn't have masks (he was facing the other way in some 'office' near the exit of the train).
And that was about it.
Goodness, that was quite long, wasn't it?