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Sep 29, 2020 6 tweets 1 min read Read on X
My weird dream last night:
My 2 year gets excited there’s a squirrel. Sure enough a big bushy tailed squirrel is sat on the fence at the end of the garden.
“That’s funny” I think, “that squirrel DOES look big”
The squirrel hops down from the fence, slowly crawling, then walking
I realise as it advances that in fact, it’s a very big squirrel, that increasingly instead of moving like a squirrel, its starting to look like Ray Winston in a squirrel costume
My 2 year old is very excited, but I, however, in this dream, am now looking through the patio door glass at a squirrel that’s easily 7 feet tall, excluding its bushy tail.
The squirrel just taps the glass twice with its huge paw, ever so gently - bonk, bonk.
However the look in its eyes is one of pure malice.
For reasons Unknown my young boys think this is the most amazing thing ever; however I feel like I’m experiencing Cape Fear, with a squirrel.
Untangle THAT one dream psychologists

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