Sisters and Witches

MORNING OF DECEMBER 26, 2008

I was in some very small "mom & pop" type of store looking at Christmas decorations one night. There were a lot of Tinkerbell decorations, many of them adorning a small tree on a shelf. I eventually left that part of the store to look at other stuff, and came upon a Tinkerbell window-cling decal on one of the store windows. I took it down and for some reason was considering buying it. Other things happened in the store at this time, but I can't remember what. I do recall that most of the handful of customers seemed to be older people.

Then I remember being in a room with a few other people, and I was talking to a young girl, probably around 8 or 9 years old. In hindsight, she was a little bit like Olive from Little Miss Sunshine, even though I haven't watched that movie in a while. The girl was crying a little bit, and was clearly upset about something. I was desperately trying to lift her spirits, and part of what I said to her was something like, "I'm so lucky to have you for a sister, you know that, don't you?" I don't really have any siblings at all, so that's weird.

Somehow the girl and I were then involved in a staged contest of some sort where we had to "outsmart the wicked witch". Basically we were alone in a building that looked kind of like the store from before, but now emptied of people and mostly dark. We knew someone playing the character of a wicked witch was after us, hiding in the store also. We had to try to outsmart the witch and escape without being caught by her. If we did, we won the prize. I remember the witch springing out and confronting us at one point, and it was scary in the sense that it would catch you off guard. For some reason the girl and I were each wearing gray sweatsuits.

The witch part of the this dream might come from the fact that I'm currently rereading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, though I'm not yet anywhere near the part where Elphaba has become the "witch".