Holiday

I had spent a week away from work on holiday. I had divided up my time equally between seeing family and friends. I have the feeling I saw my family abroad and that I saw my friends in London in an appartment.

I can't remember an awful lot except me standing in the appartment where my neighbour in real life was staying in the same room as me (in real life he disturbs my sleep with loud noise from his flat). I was watching TV - an irrelevant program with someone's face zoomed in close up on the screen. I was on the phone to someone looking out of the large windows over London. I was telling them how busy the week had been but that I had felt like I had got away from work completely. Looking out of the window I could see the Thames. By one of the docks stood Birmingham University campus, with its red brick buildings and huge domes. It never occurred to me in the dream that the University of Birmingham could not be in London.
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