Wakey
Lurker

This was a weird one that came out of nowhere!

I was a member of a pirate crew on a pirate ship. I am not sure if I was a pirate or just myself among the pirates. One of the pirates on the ship, a good friend, a good man who owned a treasure map, was murdered by another pirate. I then set out to investigate who killed the pirate. It was kind of like a whodunit murder mystery. I talked with the captain, some of the crew and the murder victims two sons. Strangely one of the sons is white and the other is black. Tension was running high on the ship. The captain was angry one of his crew had betrayed him and killed another member of the crew. The victims two sons were very sad. None of the crew trusted each other. The murder was unsolvable.

The dream skips to a later date. I am at a party with balloons and laughing people. I stand alone in a bedraggled shirt, stubble and glasses, in a thin rooms with lots of light. Presumably a lot of time has passed and I have been affected by the loss of my pirate friend. I am with none of my fellow pirate crew so I assume we disbanded after the murder. The two brothers, sons of the victim walk in behind me. They are holding their dead dad's treasure map with glee, looking pleased with themselves. Turned out they had killed their old dad for the treasure map, and were secretly very greedy, malicious and evil. I slowly turn around and they look at me and fall silent.

The dream then resets to when I'm still on the ship, solving the murder. (Sometimes my dreams reset, so I can 'do the dream right' or 'follow another path in the dream' (hard to explain, but it's how it is).
I burst into the brothers room where they are their with the treasure map and try and fight them. They overpower me. The dream resets to before the right. I make a plan with some of the other crew to tie the two brothers up to the main mast with rope.

That's where the dream ends, and I wake up.

Quite an odd one! Maybe I subconsciously want to become a pirate private eye. I quite enjoyed it. I don't know how my mind comes up with this stuff.