Two Guys / Mike's Restaurant / Game? / Gerard

Two Guys -

I was walking with two girls, and we were out by ace hardware or something, or a place that was similar to that. Two guys walked by the other way, and I instantly didn't like them. They had on tight polo shirts with the collars popped up. One laughed just as he passed us, and I clearly and loudly mocked his laughter. They turned around and started threatening me for mocking them, and they were two big guys, who could have easily beaten me up. But I wasn't about to let go of my pride and just apologize, especially with these two girls I was with watching. So instead, I just started making more sarcastic quips in their direction. They were on the brink of "teaching me a lesson", as they said, and I responded that I was trying to "teach them a lesson, in how to gracefully take playful sarcasm". I guess it all worked out, because I never got beaten up, but I never backed down from them either. I remember feeling pretty proud, like I had a silver tongue for being able to get out of that situation unscathed, and still appear cool to these girls.

Mike's Restaurant -

This may be connected to the last dream, but I don't have a clue who I was with anymore. I was in my uncle mike's restaurant, but instead of a restaurant it was a grocery store, kind of like Fred Meyer, because I remember it had all sorts of plumbing supplies, clothes, furniture, and cheap ugly mass-produced paintings in cardboard boxes. The paintings were of stupid meaningless things, like an indian chief's head with a full moon and some wolves behind it, that kind of stuff. At one point my grandma was there, and she was talking about a red suede couch that she thought was great and wanted to buy. As she was talking about it, everything else faded out, and all I could see was the couch in a room by itself, with strange lighting that was evocative of a movie set. I don't remember much else that happened here, though I know more did.

Game? -

By far the weirdest of the three, but the most nonsensical and difficult to describe. It started with me being on a golf course. I don't remember what led up to this, but I know some stuff did come before. The golf course was enormous, it was as if the entire world was perfect green fairway grass, with the occasional tree, and the courses were just strewn about this green land end to end, they weren't in any way constructed to save space, or to consolidate them to one location. I was mostly watching other people golf, and from what I can recall, they were doing awful. Although I wasn't participating, i felt obligated to keep up with the group, and not fall behind. I kept seeing floating bubbles with cartoonish representations of food inside. I was able to leap great distances across this golf course and land safely, which was lucky for me because there was a small meter somewhere in my field of vision that was steadily depleting, and to raise it, I had to burst these bubbles with a pool cue that I had. I spotted one and leapt probably fifty feet in the air, landed and smacked the bubble, and my meter gained about a big chunk, about hald of its total. I saw another, and this time jumped high enough to worry myself about whether I could land without breaking a leg. I was fine, but the bubble this time was much harder to burst, and it took a few tries. Floating in the air, it looked like this:


I burst this open, replenished my meter, and quickly ran off to catch up with the group. At one point I hit a golf ball with a two iron and watched it sail almost perfectly straight down the fairway and about 15 times as far as anyone there had ever hit a ball. No one really noticed or said anything, but I figured I was the shit.
Now I was in a room that was just a giant cube. There seemed to be no way in or out of this box. It was about a third full of water, and just above the water line was a platform, with another platform above it, so there were two stories of platforms out of the water. There were two girls there again, but me and one of the girls were shrimp. We were swimming around in the water and trying to stay away from this carp that was trying to eat us. We were all very cartoonish versions of sea creatures, not very realistic. At some point the carp lost its exoskeleton, which it shouldn't have had in the first place, we were the crustaceans, and our goal became to keep it away from the carp, I guess without it he couldn't hurt us. a lot of chasing ensued, and it was very scary, I feared for my life. Near the end of it, Me and the girl, humans again, were sitting on the edge of the bottom ledge, feet in the water, and I could see the carp, now a crayfish, coming toward us. It latched onto my hand with its pincers, it hurt, but not too bad. I let him hold on, then I punched the wall with him between my fist and the wall. He burst open and died. The second girl climbed down from the top platform, telling us that to get out of this room and advance to the next level, we would have to take this tiny spear she had and drive it through the dead shrimp's heart. Me and the first girl both said, let's not be so hasty, and make sure this is the solution to the riddle, we don't want to be stuck in this cube forever. I opened a big poster that was I guess the instructions to the game we were playing / existing in. The game was all about the moon, and food. I had trouble understanding it, not surprisingly, but I came away with the impression that we could rocket this dead shrimp up to the moon as food, and that would increase our luck, or "karma". Now there was a third person, a guy, and we were all sitting on the bottom ledge, and I was looking through these cards that were about the size of quarters, that also had to do with this game. I got about halfway through the cards, and realized that down the side of them the alphabet was written, and I got worried that they would get mixed up. Now we were all at a table that had appeared on the bottom tier, and we were kind of playing D&D, I felt somewhat like the dungeon master, but there wasn't really a dungeon master in this particular game, everyone contributed to the story. But I was the best at the game, and teh most creative, so I was doing most of the talking. Soon, the guy started telling me a story of what had happened to them early on in the game, I guess before I got there. They had killed some monster of a high level, and he had dropped six demon-hide masks. They had no idea that this was a very good thing. They weren't masks at all, but six powerful monsters that would fight for you. They said they got tired of them, never realizing what they were worth, and decided to jam an enemy creature with ranged attacks behind an obstacle and let them kill their demon-hide masks. One of their players would repeatedly press 'P' on a keyboard, which allowed his next attack to be directed at a party member for damage, and attack the demon-hide masks. The masks killed him easily, and they finally realized what a force they had on their side.

Gerard -

I'm sure this was connected to the other dreams in some way, but I was in my trailer with Gerard and a couple other people, maybe even those guys that were going to beat me up earlier, and he said something about Lewis & Clark, about how stupid it was or something. I expressed confusion, and he responded with informing me that the college was no longer called Lewis & Clark, but "Cluck, Cluck, Cluck". That jogged my memory and I remembered that it had been renamed. I said, "Oh yeah, I heard about that. What a stupid name. I mean, Lewis & Clark was never all that good, but cluck cluck cluck is an awful name for a school. I'm glad I'm not going there".