Mystical Desert Service Trip

Date: 7/22/2018

It felt like the service trip was supposed to take place in south America, but it seemed as if it took place in a Middle Eastern country in the midst of deserts. At first it was my family. We got there with all the other volunteers and we were waiting instructions. You could have a choice to stay at the site where we all met up and do different jobs there, or you could take on a challenge and walk across a barren desert, having to reach a certain destination that was far away. I remember the group watching a video of these choices, and the walking desert choice was shown to be difficult, long, and life threatening. We then were given a paper about what kind of jobs you would do if you stayed. I remember deciding which I wanted to do. I already knew about walking the desert, and that you reach a hightened level of spirituality. I'm not sure how I knew this, but it seemed mysterious and mystical. I really wanted to walk across the desert and I did for about 5 minutes to see what it was like. It was windy, dusty, hot, the destination was so far away it wasn't visible for a little while. I went back and thought maybe I should just stay and work, going across the desert would be a huge sacrifice and I might not survive. However, I heard of other people doing it, so I did it. I was walking through the desert and I remember seeing a couple different houses and places, but not the one I needed to go to. I arrived at the supposed place, but there was actually two more choices with walking the desert: you could either fight a large creature with a group of people, risking your life, or you can go a spiritual route and receive incredible knowledge. I went with the latter. The place that was supposedly the destination was actually for those who were fighting, so I had to go to a place not too far for my choice. I ended up there and it was at this time that the rest of my dream was with part of the cast for Willy Wonka. I got to the room where I was supposed to be and I already kind of knew what was supposed to happen. At first, there was this large holographic screen with a pair of pure white ovals that were supposed to be eyes, and a voice that came from an unknown place. I already knew it spoke it riddles and other strange ways, so I tried to not answer directly, which didn't change much, it still perplexed me. I was then with others, Mario from Willy Wonka I remember was one of the other people. We were sitting, taking in knowledge, and there was pure white light shining from several different points. Then it went completely white, completing the event. Then, the dream went to some video game that I was sort of in, sort of playing. It was a game I knew, bit the textures and coloring were different. There were then several paths of roads and went you walked up to each road, it showed a "take (certain item)". These items were extremely rare and unique in the game, and I remember I could save it and try out each item, which was either a weapon or armor piece. I picked up a sword which resembled some fancy-ish iron sword with pretty powerful enchanting. This wasn't going to be my choice, but the dream progressed and that whole item thing wasn't ever thought of by me again. Then I noticed this was only the first day of the service trip, and we had to do this everyday. The dreams starts to change, and it skips the walking in the desert and it goes right to the destination, which was a room with a tv, and then it was a room with a lot of computers. When we completed it, it wasn't that much of a big deal anymore, and was more of like a modern accomplishment. When I was in the room with computers, someone who was working behind the scenes, I guess, came up to me and gave me a phrase which I wish I could remember, but it was two words and they were large words, sounding like they'd be in a contract or something like that. These words were suppose to be a sign which shows what kind of thing we're doing, but what we were doing was represented by the phrases, but the phrases didn't define what we were doing. One time when I was going to a destination (pwhich sometime changed. And the second time I was going to go through the desert, Mrs. Glover told me somewhere different to go but it was confusing and I didn't want to get lost in a barren desert. I then consulted with her son that told me some pretty solid directions, that being left of the firsr group of houses you see, which was after the first thing you get to which was a small isolated house.) I arrived at the fighting place again, and they were about to fight this large creature that resembled blastoise from Pokemon. It was quite him, larger, not spraying water, and feral. It was still a wild creature, almost seemed to artificially be blue and have a blaster that didn't do anything. They started fighting it and I left, my dream cut to the next scene. I don't remember too much after that. I also remember going out to eat while discussing what we were going to receive for doing this after some of the days.