Woo, doggy. Last night (or more accurately, this morning) was a freakin' gold mine. Didn't really want to get up at 7:45-ish--even though technically, I should've had plenty of sleep. Then I remembered my rule that, if I didn't have to get up, I could keep snoozing as long as I kept having dreams during the snooze. And I sure did.
But first a dream from around 3 or 4am: Ask and ye shall receive. I'm doing some kind of cosplay or something at some Old West town. I'm a little chilly or something, but I don't want to wear some kind of coat or duster that will make me look like a gunfighter. Besides, I don't have a hat to go with it. I'm going about my business--whatever that is--and a car pulls up and a woman gets out and goes into the saloon. She's asking the barkeep fishy questions about if he feels safe with all the money in the till and people walking around with guns. At this point I realize I'd taken off my gunbelt when I was sitting at a nearby outdoor table. So I quickly but nonchalantly walk back there and luckily it's still there. I'm trying to buckle it on as I'm headed for the bar but I've got a big hunting knife on my belt and I'm trying to figure out how to have the gunbelt under the knife. All the while the woman has a bottle in her hand that she looks to be trying to unobtrusively get a good grip on. But then she must've put the bottle down because there's a metallic sound when she clobbered the bartender, like a tin cup or a coffee pot for camping. At this point I just grab the gun and let the belt drop and she turns to face me. I shoot and miss. And I'm pretty sure now she has a gun and shot too. So I'm trying to calm myself and aim the next shot and she beats me to the next shot but there's a *click*. So I take my time and make sure I hit her when I shoot again.
On waking, this seemed a little cold-blooded, shooting an unarmed woman. But on thought, there was nothing stopping her from closing the distance and clobbering me like she did the bartender. For that matter, her revolver may have still been loaded and just hit an empty cylinder or a weak primer and the next time she fired, it might fall on a live round. So I was fairly justified in shooting her as she'd tried to kill me, apparently. Oddly enough, I've never fired a Colt single action army, so maybe in dreams I need to stick to unfamiliar guns--or Alec Baldwin scenarios.
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Anyhow, the morning dreams were completely unrelated to that--but linked together with each other by weird dream logic. Got the weird run-down school housing dream. Only this time I've got a (nympho) girlfriend. We're on different bed/mattress things, next to each other in a big dark living room, watching a movie or something with 1-2 roommates nearby. I decide to nonchalantly feel her up, so she starts rubbing my crotch. She starts getting ready for sex, slipping some underthings off, but 1) there are other people RIGHT THERE and 2) I apparently need to use the bathroom and have to get up because I've got stuff I need to do today. The bathroom is really disgusting. And I'm having a conversation with the roommates while I'm brushing my teeth etc. I come back out and the girlfriend is on a little folding camp bed and my big bed/futon/couch is gone. I ask her where it went and she says my roommate said it was his and took it. I'm pissed because it was mine and my roommate (from the Marines, who was a manipulative little sociopath) damn well knew that.
But then it's time for the picnic. So about 6 of us somehow climb onto a 1980s style kid's bike that my friend from 5th grade is pedaling and head to the park. I'm wearing a Captain America T-shirt or something and, because it is the 4th of July or something, a bunch of little kids we see on the way to the park are dressed up as Captain America in homemade costumes, so we're like waving or saluting at each other. We get to the park and everyone piles off the bike, but one of my shoelaces has come untied so I've got to fix that. Meanwhile the dodgeball game has started (or was it volleyball? my brain couldn't decide. There wasn't a net but it seemed to go back and forth). My friend (who is not at all a jock) is annoyed because the game is going and I'm in the way, farting around with my shoe. I finally get my shoe tied and this tall, lanky, tanned blonde girl who is wearing nothing but sunglasses decides to do a flip. It's a wire-work/anime thing--she goes from standing, leaps at least 8' in the air, and forward about 15' to land almost in front of me. I don't know if it was supposed to intimidate me or make me horny or what, but it did. Meanwhile, I'm also thinking maybe it isn't appropriate for my degenerate friends to be going around naked in a public park where kids are watching. So just like that the park has become someone's farm/campground/compound. We're filing into the house for lunch and I'm finally loading up my plate when we hear there's skinny-dipping at the pond. And I'm thinking that if the girls are naked, 1) that's just great perving right off the bat but 2) and I'm also naked, maybe one thing will lead to another and I'll get lucky. But no sooner do I get out of the house than everyone's coming back and saying the pond is closed down. It isn't clear why until the sheriff says something about blue-green algae, which of course is serious business.
I don't think there was much beyond that. All told, an entertaining night of dreaming. I suspect it was the 4th of July because it is Christmas Eve IRL. But no one goes to the park for a picnic and naked dodgeball on Christmas.