Game of life?

The dream takes place in a cozy log cabin. I’m not in the dream, just watching it. There is a large game board spread out on the square wooden table. A boy, maybe six or seven years old, is playing. His mother and a man (a deputy?) are sitting on a loveseat behind the child. The game board is larger than a regular game but it reminds me of Monopoly. It’s got squares all along the outer edge with instructions on each square. The game pieces are whatever the player wants them to be. [Like in Leela, the game piece is something that matters to the player – i’ve always used my moonstone ring]

There’s a commotion out back and i look to see what it is. There’s a field covered in long golden wheatgrass. At the back of the field is a stream. This property is familiar to me – i’ve dreamed here before. On the other side of the stream the plants are overgrown and wild. Something or somebody is coming through the brush. I look back at the boy and the man and woman and they don’t seem to be aware that somebody is coming. When i look back to see if whoever/whatever is coming through the brush there’s an old Asian woman and a little Asian girl approaching the house. I assume that the woman is grandmother to the little girl. The little girl is maybe 4 years old.

The deputy gets up from the couch and responds to the knock on the door. He lets the granny and little girl into the cabin. The girl is a child prodigy of the game and has come to challenge the boy, who is the current champion. The girl takes her place at the table and grandmother takes a seat in a wooden kitchen chair behind the child. The chair is dark wood and has a calico pillow on the seat. Granny hands the little girl her game piece. It looks like a small scalloped cup-like thing made out of ?wonton wrapper. In the dream i wonder if it’s a type of fortune cookie. The young boy looks on as the game is set up for play and as he watches the little girl i hear him say “Uh oh” and realize he’s nervous even though he’s the current champion.

Just as the game is about to begin there’s another disturbance outside a large window near the front door. The deputy gets up to investigate and just when he gets to the window, the window shatters and large tentacle-like things grab him and snatch him out through the broken window. I become an active part of the dream now and run after him to the opening and grab his feet. He’s being consumed by what appears to be a giant rutabaga or turnip. He’s wrapped up in roots. I pull as hard as i can and get him back into the living room. His adrenaline is pumping and he pulls out his police gun and shoots at the thing.

That’s all i remember.

The cabin was rustic and very homey. There were afghans covering the upholstered chairs and there was a large stone fireplace in ?the kitchen? It seems like there was just the living room and the kitchen with dining area. If there were other rooms i didn’t notice. The field in back of the house is so familiar but i can’t think of any real-life place like that so it probably is a place i’ve been to before in dreams.