I had a dream last night that, while it didn't make much sense, was extremely vivid and detailed. I was apparently invited to some bizarre retreat thing, except I think it actually started with me working in a library. (That's how you knew it had to be a dream, I guess.) I think it involved me doing research, and for some reason I had to go up to an attic, and something splashed a gross oily substance on me. That was basically all right, though, because the room upstairs was full of showers. There were also a lot of other people up there, but I'm pretty sure we all showered in our clothes. It turned into some weird group thing, and there was something about a fake marriage ceremony, and lots of being shunted from one place to another. I think I enjoyed it, although I was confused. We all spent the night in a series of rooms that seemed to go on forever, and I remember desperately searching for a bathroom, which I eventually found in what might actually have been another building. I'm having trouble remembering the order in which these things happened, but I guess it's not that important. There was something about being in a room with black cats and rarities collections by some band that might or might not have been the Monkees. I think one of the cats led me somewhere (it might have been on a leash, which once again proves that this wasn't real), and around then was something about signing up for a group. I remembered doing the same thing the previous day, but I'm inclined to think this was just a memory I invented within the dream, rather than part of the dream itself. I wasn't actually sure I could be there for a second day, but they were apparently okay with it, and some people I knew from the last time were there as well. Oh, and I think I was number 30, although I don't recall what that signified (if indeed it signified anything). I went to eat at an Italian restaurant that seemed to be built into the same building where the rest of this was taking place, and I shocked the other people in my group by not eating with them, but instead in some apparently lower-class room where the people were discussing birds. I think they might have been talking about eating the birds, but I'm not sure about that part. After that was something about going to the men's room and seeing women emerge from it. If I'm not mistaken, there was also something involving my car, and something else involving elevators. And at one point the group was wondering why someone else we knew (whom I think was loosely based on
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Part of the other dream I can remember took place on the street where my mom's house is, and another part was in New York City. There was something about showing up early for some group, but I don't know what they did, aside from occasionally watching movies. In New York, I went to a bookstore, and that's about all I can recall.
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