I had an outrageous dream last night, funnily enough... reading through this thread jogged my memory.
I was in the town where my grandmother lives, only it was slightly... decayed, somehow. Cracks in the asphalt and so forth. I was in a Western-style saloon, only with big glass windows and a door so I could see everything that was going on outside. It was recently painted but empty - all the stools were upside-down on top of the bar and everything. I was with a girl I didn't know (or maybe can't remember) and my father. Our car was nearby, and a parade of people were marching down the street. My father kept telling us to stay put, that he'd be right back. The girl and I hunkered down behind the bar. My father left. We chatted for a minute, and I kissed her. It lasted a long time, but I pulled away and looked at her. I couldn't read her but somehow knew it wasn't going to work out.
"I'll see you later this afternoon," I said, shrugging. "Sorry."
"Yeah," she said. "Be careful."
I left. I knew I was on a mission for something, or somebody, but couldn't put it together in my head. The parade outside had receeded into the distance. A car we owned way back in the 90s came up, and inside was a guy I hate with every fiber of my being. Only he was much older. He had huge bags under his bloodshot eyes and a terrible five o'clock shadow. His hair was frazzled and greying, and he wore a dirty olive T-shirt and khaki jeans.
"Get in," he said. I did. I used to be afraid of him, but not anymore.
"I know what you did," I told him as we drove down the street. I realized that once we left town we were in fact on the back roads near where I currently live instead of out at the town my grandmother lives in, which's about a five hour drive. It was that whole "dreams collapsing time" thing that nobody seems to notice when they're dreaming.
"Whatever," he said.
"Huh?"
"Look," he said, and it was obvious he was exhausted. "I know what I did, too. You really gonna make a scene about it?"
I got mad, but I was confident enough not to blow up at him. "You're damn right I'm gonna make a scene about it. You did something terrible."
He chuckled. "Whatever," he said again. For some reason, I felt vindicated. He was afraid of me, now.
There was something after that, too, running through sand dunes with my brother, fighting the living dead or something, but it all gets really hazy in my mind after that. Then my alarm went off and I kept hitting the snooze button and drifting in and out of a dream where The Stooges were playing "Search And Destroy" in a grimy, dank basement bar with all of my friends. Eventually I got so irritated by the alarm that I shut it off and overslept and had to run into work, but c'est la vie!