Missing Child

Last night, I had a pretty strange dream because in it I had a kid.
So my kid was grade school aged, and away on a school trip which was supposed to take a few days. I got a letter in the mail from the school telling me my kid was DEAD! So I was really upset for a couple of days, but then Mike was like "Do we know for sure that they are right? Maybe they made a mistake." That thought had never occurred to me in all my grief, I guess.

But then we got a letter in the mail from a funeral home (I think) saying that the suggested tiem for our kid's funeral was Thursday at 11:08am (I think). That's weird, I don't think funeral homes just send you a letter with a suggested time. So then we were thinking that we really should look further into this to see if the school was really right. And, BTW, the field trip hadn't come back yet by this time.

So then the point of view in the dream shifts and I am not looking from my own point of view. Instead I am just like watching a movie, and I see my kid - who looks like Dakota Fanning when she was younger. So she is wearing a school uniform and standing in front of a full size poster of her friend who is also in the school uniform. So she stands with the poster and has someone take a picture so it looks like the two girls were actually standing together when the picture was taken, and she says something like "They will think we were together in this picture."

And that's the end of the dream...