Oh Lucy, I'm hooome!

I got home from work and was telling a grandmotherly figure about my day. I said something about an issue with a wiki, and she said it was important to get the thing fixed.

Thinking back, I don't recognize the layout of the house, and I don't recognize the Latino woman who spoke with an accent. I knew her in the dream.

There was some issue about a check she had given at church that day. I assumed she had been to Mass because it was a workday, and she was probably Mexican. (I am not Roman Catholic.) She was on the phone trying to call a woman at her church about it when I got home. She was frazzled because of this and because of a baby somewhere in the house who was calling out unintelligibly. A few times, she raised her voice to be heard and to say she'd be there soon.

As I left the front of the house, I passed by a kitchen on the right where a Latino guy about my age was doing something. Again, I knew him in the dream, but I'm not sure what our relationship was. I thought about saying "Buenos dias" but didn't because I wasn't sure whether the greeting was linguistically appropriate.

Making two left turns, I got to what I assume was my bedroom. I think I emptied my pockets there but don't remember specific items. I could still hear the baby calling, but being closer didn't make it sound any less odd.

I go into the room in the back of the house on the right where the baby was, and he was barely floating face-up in an inflatable pool on the bed. "Oh my God! C----!" I shouted. I did recognize the baby: he was an infantized version, but a big baby, of my friends' son. He was bobbing and made his weird noise when his mouth surfaced. I ran over to him. His face was smurf-blue but not all over, as though his part of his face had been dipped in paint.

I sat him up, and he threw up a couple of times in the water. First a little bit and then a thin-milkshake gusher.

That's when I woke up. As I sat reflecting, I could still hear the baby's noise: something was partially obstructing one of my nostrils, making a faint whistle-wheeze.