optical illusion, remote dream by sylvia

I’m with some friends, and observing a landscape that has an approximately 20” embankment to a higher plateau. Apparently I’ve only been existing on the “lower” one, and my friends tease me about not having been on the “higher” one. The plateau is a beautiful Arizona-type desert. I walk on this plateau and the immediate landscape changes to a tennis court with impressively giant (as in narrow, long, not wide or deep) cracks in the court. The cracks match the angles of the tree branches above, so that the patterns merge together when I look ahead (earth and sky appear to merge together in a sense). I point out the illusion to a companion I’ve caught up with on the walk. We are set to walk back now, and I suggest to some other people on this walk (a mother, father and daughter perhaps?) to walk backwards in order to observe this phenomenon of the big jagged trees matching the cracks in the court.

Same night different scenario: A bunch of us are in a type of cul de sac and on vacation. It’s time to cut it short, and those with rental cars abandon them there, but first they pose under signs that materialize over the cars, signs that display the balance they owe on the rental cars. Some kind of other shift in the scenario: I walk up to a friend, past a little girl (about 7 years old) whom I’ve found annoying but I say hi to, since it’s so unusual to see her here.