My Puppy Dream
“Harley, Ruby!” I called out, wondering where my dogs had gone. It’s dark. I can’t make anything out and I’m not even sure where we are.
“Ruby, Harley! Come on, let’s go!” I call out again taking a few steps in the direction I think they had gone.
It’s very dark, but there seems to be a dim light up ahead. The light seems almost ambient, but I can’t tell the source. It’s definitely not enough light to reveal anything about where we are.
“C’mon guys!” I call out “Where are you?” I walk a little farther.
I hear something up ahead. Is that them?
Maybe…
I hear a dog barking. Not loud or excited, but like a greeting. Sort of like Harley does when he wants my attention, but was it Harley? Or Ruby? It didn’t sound exactly like either of them, but I’m not sure.
“Hello, is that you?” I asked. “come on guys.” I said as I moved towards the barking.
Suddenly a pair of what looked like rounded windows opened up in front of me. They opened vertically like someone pulling up some blinds or something. The view through them was blurry but I could just make out shapes and colors. The view through them seemed to move around a bit unsteadily. Occasionally they would settle on one shape or another and seem to try to focus for a moment, and a couple of times they closed briefly as if blinking.
After a few moments, another pair of windows, very similar to the first, opened just to the right. The view through them was a bit different, but still very blurry and hard to make out anything more than shapes and colors. And much like the other pair, they seemed to look around a bit and blink a few times.
Then it all fades away as I open my eyes…. Wait, what?
After a moment of confusion and disorientation, I realize what had happened.
It was a dream.
The spirits of my old dogs, who had both passed away in the last year, were showing me that they had been reborn into new lives. The windows I saw were the views through their newborn puppy eyes seeing their new surroundings for the first time.
I am very happy for them and hopeful that their new lives are at least as good as what I tried to give them. But, at the same time, I’m a little sad that I probably don’t have any more dream visits to look forward to.
Maybe I will get to meet them again someday…