I had this dream,

The night of the election, before I knew the results, I went to sleep and I had an interesting dream.

I was at a place that I think was meant to be a polling place, but it wasn’t anywhere I’d ever been in real life before. There was a long line of people waiting and watching the in real time the electoral votes coming in and holding their breath like I was.

As I was walking past this line of people, there was one woman in particular who looked to be about that same age as myself who stood out because she was alone, separated from the rest of the group a little.

For some reason, I was drawn to her and I walked over to her and without any words, we just hugged each other and both started sobbing.

It felt so real. I woke up shortly after and I don’t remember if anything else happened, but then I looked at the results and my dream made much more sense.

Despite the despair I was feeling, both in my dream and in the waking world, there was a small kernel of hope that I took from this.

Women everywhere are ready to stand together and fight. Just like in my dream, where I was able to hug a strange and we could cry together even though we’d never met or even spoken, there are people in real life who are equally as apt to do this for each other.

I’ve had some great conversations with people I’ve been passively friends with on the internet for a while, and feel so much more connected with now. In this dark moment we’ve come together and lifted each other up, as we will continue to do.

You are not alone.

❤