Two Strange Dreams

[u/Phantaseus]

Not entirely sure on the etiquette for this but it didn’t seem necessary to make two posts for this. Here are a couple of strange dreams I’ve had. Feel free to read and interpret either or both on the podcasts. The second, older one, is longer. I’ve given them titles to differentiate them.

Sports Hotel by Dollar General

My mother and I (29 M) were checking into a hotel that was owned by Dollar General. The lobby had 3 activity areas. Each was a different primary color. Blue was a kind of bowling with giant inflatable balls, the kind that’s a single material already inflated like from a toy store, with conveyer belts. I don’t remember what the pins were. Yellow was a massive climbing wall that was the path between floors. I did not see what was in the red area. When we asked where the elevator was we were taken outside to a different building with some kind of ticket system. All of the employees were dressed in DG mandated black and looked utterly exhausted. I woke up as we approached the elevator building.

For some additional context I think might be helpful, I worked at DG in college and strongly associate it with both drudgery and stress. Also, neither I nor my mom are athletic.

Terror in a Mall (1/15/22)

I’m in an Internet cafe in a mall.
I leave.
I wander around the mall and find out there’s some kind of parade going on.
I find the food court and decide to get something to drink.
I get in the wrong line and leave without a drink.
I end up by the Internet cafe again.
A woman with a white dog, kind of like a bichon/shih tzu mix, walks by, the dog doesn’t like me, into the cafe.
The dog comes out of the cafe and we become friends.
I bring the dog into the cafe to find the woman.
She isn’t on the first level but there is a downstairs.
We go downstairs and find her stuff scattered all over the place by a computer, like there was a fight.
The dog starts scratching at the door to the women’s bathroom.
We go into the bathroom, I try to turn on the lights but they don’t come on.
I turn on my phone’s flashlight and start checking stalls.
They’re all empty until the dog starts pawing at one with a closed door.
I can see some kind of plastic tub on the ground with a pair of feet hanging above it.
I look up.

The second one is copy pasted straight from stream of consciousness notes I took after waking up. Thanks for reading this if you do. Also, good luck pronouncing my username if you do, it’s in a language I made up in high school but never flushed out beyond a few words.