I’m in an arid rugged, mountainous area standing in front of a cave. An extraterrestrial (or maybe an angel) tells me i can enter the game and while i’m playing, time in the “real world” will stop and nobody will know i’m gone. (Definitely a scene inspired by World of Warcraft.) I enter the game.
Scott and i are seated at a picnic table next to an outdoor basketball court. Tilly is shooting some hoops. Tilly comes and sits down with us and he’s sweaty and out of breath. He tells us about this cool game he’s been playing. He hands me what i think is a large paper placement but it’s really a book. There are little round Velcro tabs at the bottom of each page so that when you flip the page over, it’ll stick to the back of the preceding page. It’s the game manual. I’m intrigued and decide to play.
Now Tilly, Scott and i are climbing a rock wall and when we get to the top we all open our “books” with the Velcro tabs to see the Question. There are three questions. I can’t recall now what the questions are but the first one is a picture of a ?coffee cup and has to do with a measurement. I easily answer all three questions (because they are very simple). Tilly is very impressed that i could answer them so easily and i think to myself that he really doesn’t know me at all if he’s impressed with that because i can answer much more difficult questions if necessary.
Now i’m in a house. It might be a mobile home. It’s small and mostly dark except for the lamp on the end table. There are several people in the house and we’re all leaving to go ??. Corinne is there and i think there are other old friends like her (from work when it was fun) there. I’m the last out of the house and heading towards the cars - two blue SUV’s – that will take us ?to the beach? My purse, a satchel really, is VERY heavy. I place it on a table in the yard (but the yard is in a room again) and say i have to see what’s making my purse so heavy. I unzip the bag and open it wide so i can see. I see that there are two of the large kinds of Swiss Army Knives in my purse. One is mine and has the keychain with the Grinch on it. The other one is identical but without the keychain. I take them both out and try picking up the purse again, assuming that it was the two knives making it so heavy, but it’s STILL very heavy on my shoulder. I reach in without looking and pull out a seashell. I reach in again and pull out a rock about the size of my hand. Corinne makes a comment about the strange stuff in my purse. I reach in again, because the purse is still way too heavy, and pull out a very large conch shell. Even i’m surprised at what i have in there.
That’s the last i remember, pulling out the conch shell. ? This Game within a Game scenario is a first! Similar to the Dream within a Dream scenario of which i am completely familiar. It was a fun dream. Well, not so much fun as i enjoyed dreaming it even if it makes no sense to me.
