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first off (in real life), i went to eat at an african restaurant with a friend of mine last night. she’d been there before, liked the food, etc, so i was fine trying something new to me. we get in there and there is one other group of people in there… very relaxed atmosphere, cheesy ethnic music playing, etc. we order, get our food, eat quite leisurely and talk quite a bit… then suddenly we both kind of mention how we are VERY relaxed… maybe *too* relaxed? what are those guys smoking in the corner of the room? is there something in the food? maybe we just ate too much? whatever it is, we leave, i drop her off at her car, call a friend of mine, talk for awhile… im still quite *relaxed*, but i did have acupuncture that day, plus i was feeling a bit funky still from something i ate earlier in the day. finally i go to bed with a slight headache, and have this dream.

first part: i am in the small town i grew up in in MN… driving around on a 4-wheeler, here there and wherever… come across a huge shed/barn building and i go in there and there’s a kid, about 8-10 years old, just kind of rummaging through stuff… he comes up to me and we talk a little bit. he says that he has a 4-wheeler but doesn’t like driving it because it scares the animals, which i find to be very sweet that he is so aware of something like that. then we see an old beatup truck come into the shed building with it’s headlights on… it’s the kid’s stereotypical mean redneck dad coming to get him and bring him home. the dad straps the kid to a board type thing with really wide off white colored straps so that the kid can’t get away. the kid seems sort of sad, but doesn’t struggle. they take off and i kind of wander/follow and come across a church. i go in and there are lots of people there, they are a mormon/jehovah’s witness type religion, but very VERY charismatic. i stumble into a bible study type meeting and there are all these maps laying around… i unfold part of one map and it is of the area we are currently in with lines drawn from the church to different areas… each line has a dot somewhere on it with “3pm” written next to it… i assume that this church is planning to take over the area and that according to their plan they all have to be at the different dots at 3pm. i leave without any hassle.

second part: i leave the church because i realize i have to go to a wedding of the guy who owns the local record store in TN at his store. i start going there and my stepdad, brad pitt, calls me. he has newly become my stepdad and is still getting used to the role, but is doing a good job so far. we talk, and i realize i need to go home instead (in TN now). i go home and see that my boyfriend left three amps out on the grass under a tree. it starts to rain so i go to find tarps to cover them. the first tarp has a huge hole in the middle of it, so i go to get a second tarp from the laundry room. it is a faded light blue. as i get close to an amp, i notice the bright blue tail of a snake that sort of looked dried/baked onto the tarp. i feel sort of bad, but glad that it isn’t alive. then of course it starts to move and falls off the tarp. it turns out it has a beautiful blue tail but the front 3/4 is a good golden yellow color and it has the head/face of a corn snake with big black eyes. i drop the tarp and back off, hoping the snake will leave, which at first it does, but then it notices me and when i move it comes towards me faster than i can move away from it. i stop and call my stepdad brad pitt on the cell phone for him to come over and help me.

third part: i am watching a sort of home video that my friend from MN’s new wife made. they decided to move to hawaii and buy some land and live down there. she is videotaping things and talking about them. the camera pans down the beach and there are four huge 20+ story reddish/brown buildings that have a big “M” on them right on the waterfront and she says “at first i didn’t like that there were four macy’s here, but now i think i might be able to get used to it.” to the right of these buildings there is an even more massive statue/memorial with three bottlenosed dolphins like they are jumping off of the land and into the water. suddenly i realize my perspective has changed and i am out over the water… i think first i am on a dock, but when i look back to land, i don’t see any dock. i then realize that i have a videocamera in one hand, a dorsal fin in the other and i am sitting sidesaddle on a very large dolphin that is riding through the water. it is a very energetic dolphin and it goes at quite a good pace, but it never goes under more than just to get my feet and legs wet. it will take tight turns every so often and i feel like i am going to almost fall off, but never do. i even see an orca whale swimming through the water and it jumps up and does a twist in the air and everything just feels like it is in harmony. next, i realize i am still on the dolphin but we are starting to ride through more sludgy water and i see to my right the old rundown mall where i grew up in MN and an old grocery store. the dolphin then jumps out of the water onto white sandy land where some scrubby trees and grasses are growing. the dolphin keeps going, like it is leaping or jumping along, but is slowing down. suddenly we realize that we aren’t near water and he needs water soon. i see a break in a fence to my left, and by this time the dolphin is becoming quite fatigued. i start to carry the dolphin towards the fence, hoping that i don’t scrape his sides on the exposed parts of the cut fence, and my alarm goes off for me to wake up.