Ordinary Like a Salamander

Herewith a brief dream snippet just before I woke up this morning. In that dream four people were engaged in an exchange, two on one side, two on the other. I was one of one of the pairs. It was a case of strangers meeting one another, indeed the dream suggested that the couple across from us was culturally different. My companion was a woman; and, perhaps to counter a sense of unease that she felt, she began explaining what kind of people we were. She went on for a while and she ended by saying, “We’re just ordinary people, very ordinary.” Hearing this I heard myself say, “Yes, very ordinary—ordinary like a salamander.”