"Make the Ball Your God"

Date: 12/22/2024

I was in a new town. While sitting at a mall cafe, I look to the right of me and up, and I see this Asian man in a black leather jacket with black shaggy hair just above his shoulders, smiling at me. He's very good looking and so I smile back. He then motions for me to go upstairs & join him. I'm a bit shocked and wonder if he's really talking to me, so I look around me to see if maybe he's actually talking to someone else. Although the mall is crowded and there's ppl all around, there's no one looking up at the Asian man, no one else he cd be talking to. So I look back up at him, confused, point to myself and mouth, "Me?!" He starts laughing and nods his head vigorously. So, with him still smiling at me, I smile back, mouth "okay" as I nod my head, and get out of my seat to find my way upstairs to him. I walk out of the Cafe itself and under the clear balcony the good looking Asian man was sitting in (and now waiting for me). I walk into a clothes dept that looked like an old Sears or something, and started looking for an escalator. I was asking ppl, and one woman ( who looks a bit like Mila Kunis if she worked at Sears as a makeup woman wearing a tan smock and wasn't rich & famous ) finally answers me, saying, "You need to use the stairs, they're right through those doors to your left". So I opened the door to the stairway. I didn't like that the stairwell was so empty. Why wasn't there an escalator right in the middle (and on both ends as well) of the busy mall? This reminded me of every single stairwell in horror or action movies were someone is killed in. But it appeared to be the only way to get to the cute man that was waiting for me upstairs. So I slowly made my way up. When I reached the second floor, I opened up the door into a busy kitchen. This must be a restaurant. I made my way through while ppl in long white chefs cloaks and white chefs hats made their way all around me, some with knives, some with mixing bowls full of batter, and some just yelling orders. I walked out of this area and into another clothing dept. Here, I ran into a girl I knew (in the dream, Idk her irl). She had shoulder length blonde kinky hair (not full curls, just small ones), and her face looked like Maya Hawk (Robin from Stranger Things season 3 & 4). She's wearing a black silk long sleeve shirt with white splashes on it (i dont rememberwhat else she had on, the shirt is really vivid in my memory though). She also had on dangly earrings and a couple long necklaces. We'll just call her Maya. She grabbed a hold of my arm and started walking around, talking about all sorts of small talk. After a short while, in this same store (it was a big clothing store), she spots a cute guy. She says something like, "Watch how it's done", and goes over to this man of average height with thick brown hair and clear skin (no facial hair or tattoos or anything like that. He just looked fresh and clean). She approaches him normally at first, asking if he needs help with anything. He says no, he's fine, but thats when she grabs him by the arm like she had with me (links her arm in between his, so their locking elbows). She grabs onto him really tightly, puts her head against his (sideways), and starts saying all this stuff about clothing, her helping him to find clothing, stuff like that. A lot of it she's almost whispering to him (in a loud almost-seductive type whisper if it wasn't so creepy and weird, so I cdnt make out everything she was saying. She then starts talking about some movie. She starts messing with the buttons on her black silk shirt, and is saying stuff along the lines of, "They look so cool", "Then Janet's character Dee-Dee grabs him by the face and says "Make the ball your God" ",and "Its my favorite movie." "That's what you've gotta do. You've gotta make the ball your god!", Maya says as she's now grabbing the young man's face. The man is very confused, almost scared, and the look on his face makes that more than apparent. I'm standing right next to them in the next clothing rack, so I try to explain to him, "She's talking about a movie from the 90's. It has an all black-cast starring Tupac and Janet Jackson, along with some others. It's a hip-hop love story that focuses around the main characters dream of playing basketball. It's called, 'Make the Ball your God'." I can envision the old VHS box. It's yellow, and in the middle is an up close pic of a group of young adults in a yellow convertible, the ones toward the front of the scene are ofc Tupac and Janet Jackson, the convertible top down, Janet in the front seat, her knees on the seat as she's facing the back towards Tupac. They're got big bright-white smiles, her hand on his cheek lovingly as they stare endlessly into one anothers eyes. In the background beyond the car you see a basketball hoop and some shirtless black guys playing ball on a large piece of concrete. It's not a real movie irl, but dang, in the dream I knew that movie! Anyway, as I finish saying this, I try to gently pull Maya off this poor guy. I say something to her as I do. She replies back to me, now off of him, and in between him and I, "You know, YOUR JOB could be on the line! How would you like that?!" Now IM the one confused! Do I work here with her? It feels like maybe I do... but I'm not the one being all weird to the customers, so why would my job be on the line?! Unless she was willing to lie to try to get me fired. And whatever happened to the Asian guy I was trying to find? I bet he figured I'd changed my mind, didn't want to meet him after all and just left. But I do want to meet him... there's no way he'll still be waiting for me though, not after this long.. And at this I wake up...