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I dream about a man... he is fairly wealthy, he is a respected lawyer. He is tall, with pale skin, blue eyes and very short blond hair. Something happens - he has a mental breakdown, or something - and he loses his job, and everything he owns, and ends up homeless. Rather than hang around the city, where people might recognize him, he heads out into a more rural area. He is always looking for somewhere to hide in order to sleep... bushes, thick brush, etc. The landscape is very Midwest. It is harder than you would think, partly because farmers pay attention to what is going on on their land, and partly because in order to be able to get any of the stuff he needs to survive, he still needs to stay near the highway. He is sleeping in some brush when his ex-wife recognizes him one day, and it is very uncomfortable. He makes friends with a kid who wanders around the countryside. The kid is a little boy, also blond... he has run away from home. Even so, his family is very poor. The two of them find the dilapidated ruins of an old house. A company started building houses, but never finished them because the economy tanked and they ran out of money. A little girl lives in one of the other half-built, decaying houses. "Their" house has graying wood siding with peeling blue paint. It has 3 floors. It is mostly unfinished, without a roof or anything, although it does have a trapdoor up to the attic. Naturally, because this is one of my dreams, the house is haunted. The lawyer guy camps out in the attic for a while. The kid takes one of the downstairs bedrooms... despite being half-built, the house still has broken down looking beds in its bedrooms. Lawyer guy has lots of sheets of paper that he likes to arrange in stacks. After a while, the attic gets too uncomfortable because it is too haunted. The kid feels things pull on his leg all of the time. But it is shelter and sleeping out in the elements is still worse. The kid's mom eventually shows up. She decides that maybe she would like to buy the house and fix it up. She realizes that the lawyer guy is camping out there... he is worried about what she will think about him hanging out with her kid, if she thinks he is dangerous, even though he cares about the kid a lot. There is another kid, a shitty rich kid, who likes to pick on the poor kid. They have a competition involving bottle rockets, and the mean kid sabotages the poor kid's rocket. The poor kid is distraught, because making his rocket cost him a lot of money (for him). The kid has a crush on a girl, a mutual friend of theirs... she is a bit chunky, with brown hair that goes past her shoulders. One day she starts flirting with him, kissing him, etc... he figures out she had a fight with her boyfriend (the rich kid) and she is just doing this as "revenge". He gets pissed, and tells her to get lost. Somehow, he ends up falling down an embankment next to the house. He feels something try to shove him into the highway. He grabs onto a tree, but feels it trying to peel his fingers from around the trunk. I wake up. Review: Dream clues: - Spectator perspective - Haunted house - Ghost