The Beach + Cabin + Pokemon

Date: 6/3/2019

I was on the beach, relaxing, at the top of the sandy area. It was near high tide and as the waves crashed, they nearly reached us. Next to us was an extremely steep dirt and sand slope that went away from the beach, presumably to prevent the ocean from consuming the neighboring cabins above. The waves were inconsistent but amazing to watch with my family under the clear blue skies. I had my wallet and, for some reason, a calculator still in my pockets that I put in my chair's drink holder and I wandered alongside the beach from the top of the gentle sandy incline. As I walked down, I noticed the ocean waves suddenly froze in time. They were receded a couple dozen feet from the place of low tide at the bottom of the sand, revealing fresher whiter sand where the ground was flat. I was a bit concerned, thinking this was possibly the start of a tsunami, but I noticed the waves did not only recede, but they stopped moving. As far as I could see out into the vast ocean, the waves were stopped in their formation, unmoving. As I headed back to my chair and grabbed my stuff, I saw someone there and warned them about the waves. I was still cautious about them receding, so I walked diagnolly up the sand incline to a point where the steep dirt slope opened up and the sand broke through instead. This was the place we were supposed to exit the beach, as it seemed like the dirt wall continued on to the pier to the right of where we were sitting. After talking to the mysterious person, the waves unfroze, and as I looked back, combined into one large wave that traveled up until the bottom of the sand slope and just flopped over like a 10 year old doing their first belly flop in the public pool. This gargantuan wave definitely embarrassed itself as it only ended up making it a third of the way up the sandy slide and quickly dissapated, making way for the normal wave patterns to continue again. - - - I walked up to the beach cabins and had to invite people to and pick people for them based on some strange combination of emails and math functions. I guess it was sponsored by Google, because there was a computer GUI that made me pick and organize the people in the cabins from Gmail emails, or using the second option, from Yahoo emails AND Gmail emails. I had to use the second option cause some of my family members still use Yahoo, but it turns out that option didn't only have Yahoo email addresses, but pretty much any type of email you could think of. There were also some restrictive guidelines and requirements for the people in the cabins that had something to do with the family each person was from, but I don't remember them too well, and I know I went through some first iteration before ending up with my grandma and my girlfriend in one cabin with random people coming through and talking to us or hanging out. The purpose of this selection process didn't make soo much sense to me, but I knew later we were going to be playing some Pokémon game that was based on where we were located for our partners, so I wanted to play that with my girlfriend. We first checked the fridge and there was a LOT of food in there from the previous groups who stayed in the cabin: some teriyaki chicken and a random assortment of takeout foods on the main shelves of the fridge which were unfortunately expired, a dozen ripe avocados and a few other mystery fruits (there were a couple reddish/greenish fruits that looked kind of like barbells and I asked people what they were but no one had any idea), a couple of my favorite coconut chocolate macaroons in a large container, and various other food items that we weren't too sure of that I didn't get a close enough look at. One particularly strange feature of the fridge was that a picture of the people who brought the items popped up, so we learned that a few of my old teachers that were hanging out together the previous summer managed to have the same cabin the previous year! Other people that had just stayed there also left some hummus that was not expired yet and was completely full, so we brought that out to eat it. - - - My girlfriend and I were suprised to see each other (she's on vacation right now and won't be back for a while) and we went outside to relax on the shaded porch with view of the ocean. This is where the memory of the dream starts falling apart for me, but I remember there were a lot more people now, and the porch was connected to the porches of the other cabins. Each area had two people, and in these areas we were supposed to pick a Pokémon game to play together to "race" the other people. I think once we picked our game, we were supposed to play through it (both of us on teams had the same game but different DS consoles yet somehow could work together?) and then once we completed our game we could "jump" to all of the other games with the same Pokémon like it was all one larger continuous game. We ended up picking Pokémon Black/White, but as soon as the games started playing it felt more like a Mario Kart and Mario Party combination, with Bowser as the main enemy to face, and we were racing other teams to get to the finish line on some predetermined game board with a cool city theme. (I don't know what ended up happening with that, and I'm pretty sure I had another less nerdy dream afterwards, but that's all I remember.)