false awakening

Dreamt about a person whose name is one used for both guys and girls. I don't know how he was in my hotel room, but he was and we talked as if we'd known eachother for a long time. The hotel had the left window face to the streetfront where there were lots of clocks and weather screens, the right window (same wall) faced over the pool room. Mom and dad's room was next door to mine, so through that window you could also see their balcony. I knew I was dreaming the whole time. The entire dream was very vivid.

Riley! That was the name! Riley looked like that guy from Instagram tiktok. (Just looked it up, Noen Eubanks.) Red hair, tired eyes.

The next day, left hotel and looked around the building. Very big building. Eventually went outside, saw a playground and sat around there. Then to the forward-right, across the road, was a large castle/university like building. Crossed the gardens, went inside and wandered around. Went down hall's like D's school, I somehow knew where the gymnasium would be and turned down some teachers only corridors. I talked to the teachers as I went by, making it sound like I was supposed to be there. Got to gym, and it was the same room as [my church] sanctuary, just with gigantic grey-brown curtains blocking all the walls and 3-40 feet in between wall and curtain. There wasn't a stage. There was a glass plant growing/ plant selling/ concession stand thing in the middle of the room. To the left were some people, around where the lighting balcony is irl. I skirted around the right edge and got to the place where the stage wasn't, instead there were blue closed/collapsed crowd stands. We were there and talking a bit, then another guy who looks a ton like Riley but with blue hair comes up and scolds us, so I follow Riley out the other entrance (the one that leads to the offices irl). We decide to just walk around, and we came across the same playground on the way back. It was (and to the best I could tell, everything else was) in the same place as they had been on our way there. I walked towards the playground while Riley lagged behind. I turn to check how he's doing, and he's a girl with red hair up in a ponytail, tired eyes and shadowy eyeshadow. She told me to do a pose, and I did, and I took her picture too, with a tiny hope it would somehow be on my phone irl. I got the sense that she was much older (like centuries) than she looked.

Later, we got to a bus stop and I was just taking in the scenery, then Riley rode up to me on a bike and said see you tomorrow. I was very sad about this, because I knew I wouldn't, as I was dreaming. I considered just acting like I did belong to their world, but I decided to say it, that I was dreaming and wouldn't see her tomorrow. I was teary, and felt very very sad about it. Riley had an understanding and compassionate look, and a white-haired grandma passerby noted to her something about "I feel so badly for the first lifers, this must be so difficult for them". For the moment she was talking, they were both very old, white haired ladies. I don't know how they kept changing in front of me without my noticing the change, but Riley was back to a red haired girl. She apologetically said she really had to go, and kissed me before biking off. The dream went black, so I got up to write it down. I forgot Riley's name, but remembered it was a unisex name, when I recalled it I kept repeating it over and over in order to remember it. I wrote everything down, including things I forgot and therefore didn't write here. It morphed into a different dream which I don't remember, and then I woke up for real and wrote this down.

Book club went on an outing, Arthur Chrissy Stephen selah Monz me another older girl was it Beth?

One of the earlier dreams was us eating other stuff but at some point I was in the bushes, with some one? Was it the harvest Sprite Finn? And we were looking at the courtyard/driveway of a big mansion at.. someone? Earlier we were also in front of the Seattle library, or it at least looked like it. We ate so many things but I don't remember what they were..

We ended up at a restaurant's back warehouse, the food part started with us all searching for dessert (previous dreams were us eating other earlier meals) I found a vanilla ice cream and licked the ridges off, but then found out there were other flavors on the next aisle, Monz was looking at them and I tried to pass it off that I'd licked it, but she was looking at mine curiously cuz you could tell I'd licked it, so I acted like I'd been planning to give it to another member of our party, but I said "no one would probably want to trade me huh" we walked to the table, I ate more of my ice cream, we all searched for burgers, I searched for hamburgers but couldn't find any (we were at Burger King or smthing but it had shelves of random burgers, some few were Wendy's or McDonald's but no mcchickens. It ended like that. But while I was searching there were two waitresses that came in, they asked if we had a piece of paper, Beth said no but she could give them some tomorrow if they'd like xD

I had a false awakening, went downstairs and told my brother about it all.