1
2
3
4
5
7
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
23
the dream ‘I had a dream last night. A weird peculiar dream last night, one of those dreams that leave you wondering whether, you had consumed a block of cheese or something stronger before bed’. Anna leaned forward in anticipation to what June would say next, her dreams were always odd and normally funny. ‘Okay, go on then I need a good laugh’. June took a sip of the water that was sitting on the table to the left of where she was sitting. She placed the glass down took a deep breath and commenced. ‘well it started in a large presentation room, well more like a large office. One of the semi modern ones which, you would normally, see in the TV show, Mad Men. Bookshelves and art everywhere in the room. I was in the room with a group of men and a few women who were all sitting in chairs facing the same small desk.’ Anna looked up as June paused and said ‘that’s not strange enough for you’. June took another sip of the water and said ‘This is where is gets weird, the door opens at the back of the room and guess who enters. Adolf Hitler in a straight jacket’. ‘That’s more like it’, chimes in Anna ‘He walks in accesses everyone in the room and is smiling, he walks through the middle of the chairs 24
and perched himself on the desk. He looks round and then starts speaking in English with a rather upper class accent, and begins to mention how he and his friends have done some remarkable things. He seems completely unaware of the fact that he is in a straight jacket and that we are not his peers but are in fact they were there to judge him. The nattering that Hitler had been muttering was abruptly cut short by a woman shouting ‘you killed my Mother’. He looked shocked and proceeded to explain that he never did anything of the sort. The strange thing was his tone didn’t suggest he was lying, but rather that he had, had a complete psychological break. The next person to enter the room was a psychologist who explained that he didn’t have any memory of what he had done. This made me angry as I had also lost relatives at the hands and ideology of such an awful man so I walked out.’ This is when I woke up. Anna looked at me strange and said ‘I don’t know what that means’. June looked at her hands ‘I think there is something wrong with me Anna looked at June and said ‘ there is something wrong with all of us it’s called Coronavirus, I keep forgetting to do certain things, some people have had a break down, turns out your way of coping is dreaming of Hitler’.
25
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38