Fire Toenails, Broken Ukelele, and Escaping to Play Video Games
I remember a lot less of this dream than usual.
But it was something like a camp, and I was a counselor, and there as a huge house that actually seemed like a lot of nefarious stuff was going on there. I’d befriended a lot of the other counselors by doing them favors throughout, especially one. And soon, there was a ceremony going on where… everyone had to put wax on their big toenail and light it on fire and hold out their leg in front of them into the air so the fire was up in the air. But for some reason, it wasn’t hurting anyone else, but for me, it hurt so much. Why? I realized I cut my toenails so short that it was burning my toe.
So even though the staff in charge of the counselors told me, like, it’s fine, and they kept trying over and over again to relight the wax I kept putting it out. Getting frustrated with me. Then, luckily, someone I’d befriended let me borrow his homemade ukulele and play that instead of having the fire on my toe. So I was so relieved. This ukulele was strange, though, because the very top of it was wobbly, the part where you tighten the strings, so you had to hold it a very certain way to get it to play music.
I was playing it for a while, and it sounded good; even the people around me were enjoying the sounds… we were all in this big room and standing to the right of the room in a line. But then I look down later, and I see that the first two and the fourth string and broken. I hadn’t even noticed. Also, it was strangely made because three of the strings lined up with the way the ukulele was made, but the three were off-center and not lined up with the fretboard, just in the air. And then they connected to the extended top, and then the bottom, past the fret board, was big enough to meet it down there, but since ukuleles only have 4 strings, this was strange cause it had 3 strings on the fret and 3 just hanging out by themselves between the top and bottom.
But as I said, three strings broke while I was playing it. And they even looked more like thread once they broke. I noticed that and felt bad because I had been loaned this.
Next, I found someone I was kinda friends with, and I asked a few others, like… how about we spend some time right now cleaning up trash, like these empty soda cans. So that later, when things are over, we can leave early. This guy was leaving behind an empty soda can right moments before/as I was saying this and he kinda ignored me. I’d gone outside of there to this outdoor part, by the wall of the building. It was a bit of a shabby but still, like, sturdy building, and it was sandy outside. And he put the can into the sand, but there were lots of super old soda cans squished kinda and in the sand. Not, like SO many, but plenty that we could gather a few and that’d be a valid chore.
So I tried to recruit someone to work with me to clean up NOW so that LATER when the ceremony was over, we could get going quickly, for safety.
It took me a minute to find someone, but then one guy agreed, and he left and then came back with a little kid/boy on his shoulders. Then I realized he wanted to rescue this boy. So we had to travel back through the house/building, into the hallway, through this downstairs sorta office, and there were strange things going on. Like, right as we left, there was a creepy-looking guy taking a Polaroid of this little girl, and I was just like, geez. These guys are not up to any good. We need to help these kids.
So we managed to get out of there and got back to my apartment and let the kid play a video game. My daughter was there and they played the game together. The kid we rescued and my daughter. I don’t remember much about the video game except that it was very specific to this dream. It was on the Nintendo 64.
Later, I go to a restaurant during the daytime, and I’m eating but at many of the tables near me, people aren’t cause they’re celebrating Ramadan. So I wondered why they were even there? Why sit around it when you can’t eat? They didn’t look too happy.
There was so much more that happened in my dream - that as more towards the beginning/middle… but I can’t remember the rest!!
