In an European Office

(My husband told me an interesting dream this morning. I persuaded him to write a dream journal. Here goes)

I am in an office. The office building has the architecture of an European style. Inside the floors are wooden, and the walls of the building are made of stones.

Looking out of the window, I see trees lining the street. Those trees are very green and have loose leafs. It must be summer. Neighbouring building have ornate pillars and carvings of griffins and lions at the front.

In the office, my colleagues all sit in front of old styled wooden desks, which look like bigger versions of the ones at school when I was a child. None of the desks has a computer but there is a small table top narrow wooden cabinet.

A client of my company walked in. It’s Edgar. He is from South America. Without paying much attention to other colleagues, he walks straight towards me. We exchange greetings. He starts asking Telecommunication related questions about a problem he is having. I stop him half way through. I hand him a book, he looks inside ‘Is there any radio equipment in this book?’ He asks.

‘No. It has no radios. But it has a list of all the companies and it shows you which companies are doing good and which are not doing good.’ I replied. The side of the cover of the book actually prints ‘stock market‘ or something like that. I think he’s seen that. I then explain to him that I am now doing derivatives trading and am no longer in the radio business.

He seems interested and curious. ‘Can you look up for me if the ABC company (it’s a fictitious name for privacy reasons) is doing good?’ He asks.

ABC company is a company he says was started by one of my former colleagues, Alan, who left my old company several years back to go and work for a competitor. So Alan must have left that company and formed his own outfit. I am slightly surprised as he appeared to be a very conservative person in nature and not a person of the risk taking type.

Edgar wishes to check the stock price of Alan’s company. I think gee he has listed his company must be on the OTC market, how could a business grow so fast as to list on the main stock exchange, regardless he has outside investment, quite impressive in such a short time. I open the desk top cupboard on the inside is a small screen. You can use a hand held terminal like an EFTPOS terminal to key in the company name. I press a button and three companies’ names pop up on the screen. The company name starts with 'M'. There are three companies with names that start with 'Mann' and one of them says 'Mann Kost'. They are all German names strange for a kiwi company.

The dream ends there because my wife woke me up and asked me 'what were you dreaming? You were breathing fast and heavily!'