At the Movie

     In the midst of the night, or early morning, I was watching a movie on TV, one that I'd seen before, back in 1983.  The plot centers on the friendship of eight college friends, years later brought back together by the death of another.  I don't have any memory then of what struck me this time, about a hauntingly eerie sequence where one person is sitting alone in a room, and the camera pans to a scene of another of the friends, and eventually opening to where another, then another are present.
     I think I saw that sequence unfold, but it was deep in the night, and my vision is not what it used to be. The scenario is so like my dreams of late, where people from my earlier life appear and participate in whatever the activity, without being summoned or even recalled.  They are all there, with us actively interacting with each other on a familiar basis. There is no surprise to the spontaneous flow of what was once daily living. That was how life was back then.