dogs, birds, and babies, oh my!

Date: 5/30/2016

Began in a room with several carpeted stairways full of people and dogs. The dogs were hound-like, youngish, healthy, friendly, playful, and beautiful; but seemed to be strays. They also seemed to want to lead us somewhere. The people decided that we should look for homes for the dogs. As we were leaving, a man said he had a special job for me. Jump to a room full of tiny caged birds in tiny cages. He began to explain that we needed to pick out several very small birds for this special task involving little piles of bird seed. Although it doesn't make sense, and I don't remember the entire task now, at the time I seemed to catch on and completely understand what he meant for us to do once he started talking. At one string of tiny cages I was EXTREMELY, PAINFULLY shocked in the palm of my hands, as if by electricity, from an exotic breed. The man was concerned but not surprised, and told me a story that I can't remember now. Scene shift to my parents home (not really my parents home) with the same man and we are scrambling to complete the task. In another room we happen upon twin babies (in RL I have 15 yo twin daughters) that we have to care for at the same time. There is some kind of time shift and my mom enters the dream and insists that I join some celebration (she never sees man or twins). I follow her to find college friends I haven't seen for 15 years. They all look very young and happy to see me. I try to go to and from the celebration and the very important task/twins without either finding out about the other. After waking and for many hours the next day I could still feel some sort of phantom sensation in my palms.