Journal:2008july05 dream

In the Methil house, we needed to clean up for one of Jesse's guests. I went around the living room finding that I had just dumped my bags and stuff on the floor, so scooped as many up as possible and headed up to my room. As I walked in, I noticed a red ball on the floor (Christmas ornament), which started moving forward as I walked in. I realized "too late," that it was on a string, and I was tripping a tripwire, which I triggered by continuing into the room. Basically not enough reaction time to stop before setting off the trap. It turned out to just be a silly thing that Jesse had tried to set up so that the door to the attic would close as I walked into my room. It didn't work, though; the attic door remained fully open.

Jesse came in and was like, "yeah, I wasted a lot of time on this, and it didn't even work.." I was like, "well, we've still got time to clean up. And it was a funny idea. And you did successfully trick me into not noticing it. Had it worked, I would definitely have triggered it."