Petting Dogs and Framing People

Date: 12/18/2016

-- Petting dogs in a swimming pool -- I was at a swimming pool with mom and aunt Vaunda, and the pool had lots of small dogs and monkeys swimming around. I was afraid of them biting me, but everyone else was fine and didn't get bitten. -- Framing the Shopkeeper -- I was walking around after leaving the swimming pool, and I came across a section of town that had a high concentration of Japanese citizens. I went in and explored some of the shops, and made friends with the owners of one store in particular. Their store was dingier than the rest, and below the level of the road, so you had to walk down a short, steep walkway to get inside. They were having a particularly difficult time meeting rent, and they got constantly dogged about it. I came back to the shop many times, to chat with the old couple who ran it or to actually buy things. One time, as I was leaving, I noticed what looked like the top of a human hand just sticking out from the gravel of the road shoulder. Of course i thought nothing of it, because dreams are weird. But the neighbors had their suspicions of the elderly couple... I came back the next day, and the old lady who ran the store gave me a little sandwich made of konnyakku. It had sausage and cheese in it too, and it was tasty. The old woman's husband showed up and offered me some water, but I didn't realize he was offering it to me, and I gave it back to him. We were standing out in front of the store, on the side of the road. Then, one of the neighbors that didn't like them so much came over and started bothering them. I backed off, not wanting to get involved, and I ended up near the hand. Then I noticed that the ground around the hand was moving, just like it was breathing. The whole surface of the earthen ramp warped and lifted up from underneath, and I saw the edge of a tarp. I pulled it up, and saw a bunch of people underneath it. I yelled to grab everyone's attention, and I kept opening it. When I had pulled it up all the way, I saw that there was a guy with a loaded crossbow in the back. He gasped and aimed, and I ducked out. When I stood back up, I saw that one of the neighbors had a crossbow bolt sprouting from his collarbone, but he didn't seem to care or even notice. The people under the tarp all seemed to rush out at once, and it was a whole family of Caucasian people. The dad was wearing hy-glow orange, while everyone else was in white. They ran off, and I turned my attention back to the hole. There was a container in there, covered over the top by a sheet of paper. It had a person's outline traced on the side, and I could hear a voice coming from it, conversing with the guy who had shot the crossbow. He was evidently not a member of the large family. I quickly put two and two together, and I discovered that it was the inspector, who had a personal grudge on the shopkeeper. I think I had somehow deduced him as the culprit of some other strange goings-on at the shop, and now that he was here, those suspicions were confirmed. Then, from the street where the big family had ran down came two twin boys. One of them had two guns, but the other was unarmed. The unarmed one ran past us, but the armed one tried to shoot someone. He was just firing blanks, though, and when he noticed this, he put the barrels of both guns in his mouth and fired off every shot in the guns. They were all blanks, and the kid looked defeated. Then the inspector came out of the hole and stood up. He was dressed in a sort of old military dress uniform, complete with epaulettes and everything. Then we all heard a deafening buzzing sound from the allleyway, and we looked for the source of the noise. There was a huge cloud of mini helicopters coming towards us. They were all white, except for one that was hy-glow orange. It seemed like the family from before had turned into helicopters. They mobbed the inspector, and everything got weird. Things moved in snow motion, and the inspector just sort of stood there while the helicopters attached him. They started cutting him on the face and arms with their blades, and there was glitter and smoke over a white background as the inspector let them attack him. It was like a music video, only a really weird one where a man in fancy military dress gets attacked in a blank white room by a cloud of RC helicopters while smoke and glitter swirl around him. I woke up at that point.