"This dream might have originated during a family get together we had. We were watching home movies and in between reels, my sisters and I would turn on the radio. Music would come on and my baby cousin would start dancing around. everybody got a kick out of watching him crawl around and shake to the music. I don't know where the barbecue came from, but it's a childhood dream I don't often discuss because family members would think I am psychotic..." Lance Turk
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©2001 david mulhern

I can't pinpoint the exact time of this dream, except that it happened when my cousin was an infant.

I dreamed that the barbecue was all fired up and ready to start cooking on. My cousin was a little baby, and everybody loved to watch him crawl around and occasionally take a few steps.

When everyone's back was turned, I looked up and saw my cousin dancing in the barbecue grill. Not actually in the fire, but on the edge and about to head down into it. For a visual try to imagine that dancing baby from Ally McBeal. It was sort of like that.

I screamed out that he was in the fire and my Aunt picked him up and put him back down on the ground. She went back to talking to my mom like nothing was wrong. I felt that she should have been more concerned. I would have gotten a spanking or something if it had been me dancing into the fire.

I looked up to the barbecue again and saw my cousin was back up there dancing into the fire again. This time when I yelled out, the adults did nothing. My cousin caught fire, but still kept dancing. I shouted out that he was on fire and for someone to help. The adults glanced over and started laughing like he was putting on a show for them. It was all jolly good fun except for me. I was the only sane person there who knew that this was just wrong.

I don't remember anything beyond this point.

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