Carpets & Cats
The first parts of this dream are poorly remembered, and the transition between the realistic beginning and abstract ending is very spotty.
Begin I was walking down a normal residential street with overhanging trees. There were quite a few people out on the sidewalks and on the street and in the next block, especially on the other side of the street, which had become an area of small shops. (Lelia ?) was following just behind me. (Barbara Johnson ?) was standing with some people to my left and made fun of me for some stupid thing I had done, but I was not bothered by it. Moments later I was catching up to a woman crossing the intersection to the next block. It may have been (Lelia ?) or (Barbara ?), or someone else. At this point there is a forgotten transition section.
I was arranging small red oriental style carpets end to end to make a long strip. Someone or something was cutting the ends off so the patterns would butt together smoothly. I slowly transformed into a human shaped creature with a head half way between Snoopy and an alligator. The carpet laying ended in a room the wall of which had a row of carpets hanging that were similar to the type I had laid out, but with different patterns. This scene finally became completely abstract and froze into something much like an Egyptian tomb painting. I viewed it from without as a flat picture.
The body I had been in was standing on the last carpet section of the strip I had laid down, and against a background of the wall hanging carpets. The head would have been above this background, but it was missing. An additional bright red carpet had been placed above the others as a background for where the head would have been. A silhouette of the missing head had been cut out of this carpet, and it was lying on the floor in front of the figure.
Also, there were two images of men in felt hats, as though they had been
cut out of a poster. They looked panicked, and their edges were cut very
jagged. On the wall the standing figure was facing were a series of shelves
with black and white cartoonish cats on them. These had eyes wide, fur
standing on end, and generally terrified expressions. Behind the standing
figure was an almost matching series of cats, but sitting in mid air instead
of on shelves. They looked calm. Behind this series of cats was the king
from the Wizard of Id cartoon strip.
End.