OK. I gotta get this down because it was trippy. Woke up around 2 to use the bathroom. Then again at 5:26. Hadn't remembered for sure if I'd got up around 2 but I'd had a glass of water and left the glass on the sink. Oh, I was supposed to have a fairly early appointment this morning, so I was worrying about that. So I couldn't get back to sleep. I've also been napping a lot more than I should. It gets dark so early and it's been fairly cold and I don't have any solid commitments right now. So it's easy to snuggle up on the couch with The Dog and The Cat. And they'll lay there forever, snoring and purring, respectively, if I don't get up. So I figured not being able to get back to sleep for the next 2 hours was the price I'd be paying.
And of course at some point I fell asleep and dreamed I was awake. I was laying on the floor and someone climbed on top of me for sexy domination play. At first I was worried that it was this girl I'd dated in that vein a few years back--or maybe even a guy--but it turned out to be a hot girl with long frizzy dark red hair and a tiny waist. And it was so real. I could feel her weight on me; feel her grabbing my face and her breath on my ear and the taste of her mouth. So of course I immediately woke up. Actually, I dream woke-up. Because at that point I started worrying about if I'd remembered to set the alarm or if I was going to lay in bed too long and miss my meeting. So I tried to check the clock but I couldn't read it in the dark. But I did find some switches on the back that let me change the ring tone and even play recorded voices for the alarm and make a cuckoo bird pop out the front of the clock when the alarm went off. I was amazed that I hadn't noticed any of these features before on my alarm clock. But I still needed to see what time it was so I checked my watch, but the nightlight on it was acting wonky so I couldn't read it. And there was some kind of issue with the phone that kept me from looking at it. I don't think my subconscious even cooked up a rationale for that one.
So next I'm in some kind of fancy pretentious fetish show/party. It isn't as terrible as some are, but it's kind of boring. So I'm going around...collecting images?...of the scenes. It wasn't like I was actually watching things so much as taking snapshots to look at--only the snapshots were more like some kind of antiqued posters or something. Well I finally went upstairs and found a room where a cool scene or two were actually happening. More guys than girls, it seemed, but at least it was interesting. But I kept getting in the way. Then I eventually stumbled and fell onto the couch where everything was happening. Thinking quickly, I acted like I was sick and had lost my balance. And whether I was method acting or had really lost my balance, after apologizing and announcing that I was leaving, I fell down trying to get off the couch and decided to crawl to the steps (which were wide and sweeping and stone, like maybe in a hotel lobby.)
I felt better when I got to the steps and started walking down. On the way down, there was a side room with a couple cute, sexily-dressed girls. It was called "Sidebet" or "Sidebar" or something and it was an offshoot of the other event. Initially I was just going to go home, but I could see inside and it looked interesting and the cover wasn't too bad and I had a lot of cash in my wallet so I went in. I wound up making my way to a bar in the back where I had to "meet the cook," who was a hot woman of indeterminate age who may or may not have been partially nude. She was really more of a bartender but she was talking to me and maybe getting ready to read my fortune or something sexy when the place started getting busy. There were a bunch of costume party types there, including a dick in a pirate costume who sat down next to me. I made small talk with him (by now The Cook had slipped into more conventional clothes) a bit. It eventually died down for a little and I figured I might as well have a drink. So I asked for a black & tan. Instead I got what looked like a small glass of pilsner or lager but I decided not to make a fuss about it. I went to pay for it but the wallet in my pocket wasn't mine. And it was all damaged. The people behind the bar took it because they knew something about a missing wallet and were looking for the number to contact the owner when I found another half of the wallet in my other pocket that had an ID or a credit card or something in it. But with further digging I did find my own wallet. It was also damaged (did I sit in water for a long time or something?). At first the ID was missing but then I found that deeper in my pocket. That's about when I woke up. Very strange dream. Cohesive and extremely vivid but with totally different imagery than I've had in any other dream.
(Then in the end my morning meeting wound up getting postponed, so I had time to type this out before I forgot it.)