Strange dream that changes...

[Squeakbox]

Hi, I had a bizarre dream in a span of 4 hours. I woke up around 5:30am, yet somehow managed to fall asleep and have the craziest dream throughout my alarm. At first it starts inside an old building, like a temple. The room is round, and in the center stands a monument in the shape of a cube, but more like a trapezoid on all sides. There's writing on it, but it is covered by a giant tree that spirals perfectly around it, like a spring, with a bonsai-tree like top. Around the "trunk" of the tree are spikes, and is colored a dull green. The thorns are dulled, however, and the tree appears to be dying. There's a staircase leading to the back where there's an opening. I head up and the sky is dusk, there's grass and dirt in this dry field, and buildings around near a ship docking station. Flying around is a strange cloud of leaves. There's panic, and I felt as though I had to do something to stop this "thing". However, finding that I can't do anything to stop it. Next thing, I end up at the road nearby and my mother is driving me to a store. So we drive, and that leaf-cloud-thing follows us, but we wind up in a store with bead spreads and goodies. A mix-match store that was small, with open windows. They made custom bedsheets. Anywho, there was this bean-filled bed sheet (like those foam beads), and the clerk said it was being sold for $1 for a thin sample of it (like a body pillow size), but reading the label it said "$1.99". I figured it was close enough, so I just ignored it. At first I was so interested in the sample because it felt so nice, but put it back and things started to change from there. All of a sudden, my mother transformed into my grandmother (her mother), and started flirting with an old man. Apparently, according to my dream, grandma was no longer alive and my mother was impersonating her to get information from the old people in the area. That's when the "store" turned into an old folks home and led to a room with couches, a tv, a fireplace, and old people. The old man that she was talking to earlier was being ignorant, so we headed over to the area with the couches. During that time, there were 3 dogs playing around, and some kids that I knew from another place that my mother knows well. Someone she knows, and all of a sudden it's like I'm babysitting for a while. While that chaos is going on, I forgot that I was carrying a few trinkets from the store that was bought (in fact my mother paid for them, then she complained (as grandma) that she never bought them), plus one of the trinkets turned into a dagger or a pair of scissors (they seem to alternate) or both were on me. So, there's a bit of chaos going on while my mother/grandmother sits down to chat with the people. Also, she looks nothing like my real grandmother, but slimmer (grandma is obese usually) and the old people tell her that she's 'lookin' good'. So, the kids and the dogs eventually vanish, and I'm put into the shoes of my grandmother. So all of a sudden, I'm in the room, as grandma, talking to people. I cut the conversation short by saying something about the dogs (they were small dogs, like wiener dogs, and they were in the shop the whole time), and told them I had to 'take care of business'. I left the shop, and I transformed back to myself with my nice clothes on, and one of my hoodies since it was a bit cool outside. So, while the leaf cloud still flies around the parking area with cars and stores (a nice big market strip), I head off into a new direction. I come to a beach, and people are swimming in the water. However the water didn't look like normal beach water, but more like crystal-clear blue pool water with packed dirt on the floor. So... POOF, I'm in a frickin' bathing suit now. Ok? Dream logic is magical... so is the physics when I come to the bit when I'm swimming. Anyways, I start swimming, and on the other side is a sidewalk and a row of houses. I'm enjoying the water, and then, I probably lucid dreamed this, but I imagined a unique pair of swimming gear on my feet. As I push, somehow my dream physics and logic suggest that the wrong side pushes me forward, but the other does not. (I could reveal what they looked like, but I think I stumbled upon something unique). I also managed to bump into 2 guys while swimming by accident. While that seemed really awesome at the time, I swam to the sidewalk with the row of houses and screamed at the top of my lungs "HOLY CRAP! NEW FLIPPERS!!!", then someone came out that looked like a thug and he said "Oy! She got something...", so that freaked me out, so I turned around to go back swimming. Instead of the water being there, however, the land changed so that the "dirt" at the bottom of the water was a highway, and cars were going up and down it like mad, but not like a crazy-busy highway. I cross the first have fine to the "island" in the middle, but when I go to cross the next half, which seemed clear, I turn my head and look back and there's a red compact car driving up at me. (Oh, btw, I had my clothes back on before crossing the road). It seemed like it was going to hit me as it came inches close to me. But it stopped in a weird way with no sounds; it's back flipped into the air while the nose stayed down, then it rotated to avoid me. But there was no screeching noise. I "pop" back to the median, and cross a second time with better luck. When I reach the other side, it suddenly starts raining, and I'm on a bike path (everything previous to each event is still visible... the building with the monument was visible in the distance throughout the whole ordeal, and the houses and the road were too). So, I put on my hoodie, and am also wearing a scarf on my head now. My hair is in a ponytail. I start running down the bike path while other people are jogging in regular jogging attire (like the kinds from sports stores). To my right is a river and a bridge crosses the gap further down the bike path. As I'm running down (this entire dream seems to be testing my persistence, strength, and adventure) I come across a small cup with a lid on it, like a Styrofoam coffee cup, and inside is tissue, hay, or ice cream with a tiny mouse all curled up. I carry it and cross the bridge. I come across a corner store next to a pet shop and another place. I walk in offering the mouse to them. Instead of telling the truth, however, I, for whatever reason, lie, and tell them that "my" mouse is dead and I want another pet. But the mouse wasn't dead, so I had to leave with it. I went to put it on the bench nearby, yet there was (oddly) a wooden block with a set of kitchen knives in it. Out of the other store came out a regular guy, and I guess his "friend" that was wearing a ski mask (both white). They were walking casually to the bench (towards the set of kitchen knives) smiling and laughing over some kind of joke. I walk away with the cup, and head down to a street that leads down a tunnel. During this, techno music starts to play. I'm wearing headphones and an ipod. I'm walking/tapping my shoes to the drum beat while walking down this tunnel while people gave me weird looks. Down the tunnel, there's a gate blocking the way with those spinning "bars" that you find in airports, or some other places (train station?), and there's a big theater screen playing a music video of the music I was listening too. The guy in it had black shades on, was white, bald with a mohawk I think, and piercings. There were other guys in leather in the music video too. On the screaming part, there was a close-up of the bald buy with his mouth open with 3 pop-can tabs on his tongue. This is where my dream ends, leaving me wondering wtf just happened. Apparently my "goal" was to get back home during the entire chaos. Seems I have dreams like this a lot when I lucid dream, and I never seem to get back home, or wherever I'm trying to go.