I moved here in 2001 from Sault Ste Marie. Born and raised. I'm Ojibwe, status native.

When I get sleep, I sleep hard, for days on end [laughs]. And when I do get my sleep, if I have a day, two, or three, [where] I can't sleep anymore. After that, it's just like, I'll sleep for two or three days. The last two years [it’s been like this]. Since I've been in that place.

I don’t remember my dreams. I used to when I was younger, until I started using lots of drugs, uh, pharmaceuticals, alcohol. Since I started using, that's when I started like, just like not dreaming, really. Just like parts. When I was younger, when I was a teenager and younger than that, up until my twenties. I remember those dreams. I’d have to sit down and go through it, make a list. I enjoyed my dreams when I was younger.

I do come from [a tradition that shares dreams], but I wasn't raised… I was raised Catholic, so I wasn’t taught about dreams growing up. Well, my brother and my mom, they're traditional, so, whatever I learned came from them. My brother shared more of his dreams than I did. That's where I learned.

I don't have any recurring dreams. I used to when I was younger. Not right now. I can't think offhand what they are. Like, you know those dreams where you have, oh, you wanna go back to sleep and go back in and dream? Those dreams? As a child I remember those. No nightmares. I never had nightmares. I miss them because, yeah. It has everything to do with your waking life, right? It has something to do with your waking life. When I do dream, I share them with family, usually. Or, I even write them down, just so I remember, 'cause my short-term memory is not the greatest, you know.

I like coming [to Moss Park]. I’ve been coming here since they’ve been open. We've been here a long time. I don't know where we're gonna go, where the next spot's gonna be, but where else are people gonna go? There’s not many places they can go and use. It's not like Vancouver. We're way behind the times, I think when it comes to that. I was up there for a couple years. Yeah. It's a different world out there.

I came back here because I couldn't handle the rain. Christmas time. I'm like, “Dad, I wanna come home for Christmas.” Wet snow, sleet, you know, I was always soaking wet and dope sick. It wasn't a good time to go. I couldn't make the bus ride to Toronto, so I stopped home, got on methadone there, and I came here.