surreal video game dream

Weird dream I just had, if someone would like to suggest what this is about....

In this dream I can fly. I'm with four strangers, two men and two women, who I picked up to impress with my flying abilities. I can extend this to them if they're close to me, so that they can fly too.

There's a scene indoors, in a cartoon mall-like area, in which the people appear as two dimensional, abstract, cartoon-like shapes. The ground is multi-colored, and if they fall they get color on them. The two shapes which represent men fall on the ground and drag themselves across color, tattooing themselves that way. I think the shapes representing the two women follow their example.

In another scene, less abstract, we're flying around a room. We're bothering someone with the noise we make, so we go outside.

'Outside' is like a cartoon landscape. We play for a while, then some huge, predatory beast spots us. I have the four people pile in a piggy-back on my shoulders, since its easier for me to extend levitation when we're physically in contact with each other. I fly up, much higher than the monster can reach. I'm sure now that I've dreamed this once before, many months ago at least, and forgotten. He can run faster than we can fly, and he has some way of reaching us in the air and wrecking my flying ability. Remembering this, instead of flying away I land on some huge box-like platform, from which we will make a stand. Not far away is another platform, higher than ours, on which are five or so colorful cartoon like monsters who are also there to be safe from the rampaging monster on the ground. I wave to them.

The ground is a wide, featureless expanse, like from a simple video game. The top of the object we're sitting on isn't completely flat, its shaped more like the top of a lower-case n, but with the flat part being wider than the curved part and a little higher. I'm pretty sure that in the first, forgotten dream, the object we landed on was taller than this one. Here we are at about head height for the rampaging beast. I hand out some weapons to my four companions. The weapons don't look like much, a couple are just like a flat palm-sized badge that you strap on over your heart. The two men are beside me on the flat area, with the women behind us on the curved part. I warn them that the beast will reach us in about 30 seconds. When it charges up, the men and I blast its nose with our weapons. There isn't any visible effect, but it hurts, apparently, and the thing stands there stupidly for a few seconds and ponders the situation. My hope is that we've seemed threatening enough that he'll run off for a few minutes and attack the other creatures. But after he stares for a few seconds I'm pretty sure that he's about to fly into a rage and charge us instead. The girls haven't helped us for some reason, I don't know if they're scared or can't figure out how their weapons work or what. I plea to them to start doing something, that we'll be killed otherwise. Then I wake up.

I think that in the previous, mostly forgotten dream, the beast crashed repeatedly into our platfrom, slowly wrecking it. But since we were a bit higher then he couldn't reach us as easily. I also think that some of the cartoon-like creatures from the other island flew over and helped us. And I think that at some point we flew over and joined them on their perch. This time, if I hadn't woken up, I think I would have tried getting everyone to grab onto each other so that I could fly them over to the higher position before the beast attacked us. And maybe the other creatures would have seen our stupid plight and flown over to help us.

The weird thing about this dream is I don't watch videos or play video games either one, and never have, for as long as such games or cartoons have existed. So there's nothing in my waking life experience that matches this.

I think the energy weapons in the dream are, among other things, some kind of metaphor for human affection.

I guess I'll leave it at that for now, and think about it more later.