Date: 3/4/2023
By incurableflame
I was a new driver on the roads, making my way to a talent show contest. On my way there, I stopped by a few places to sell meth, and meet a guy who wants to join my "operation" but I dismiss him. I pull up to a huge parking lot which is mostly empty. I park my car, take my sandals off, and walk barefoot to meet my grandma on the other side of the lot. She scolds me for walking barefoot because "what will people think? So unprofessional!" And gives me a pep talk before my talent show performance. Something like I have already been thinking/writing about irl lately, getting in touch with who I used to be as a little girl who wanted to (and did) perform on stage. I'm not really listening. I'm only doing this for her, plus I'm confident that I at least won't make a fool of myself. She wishes me good luck and I go towards the building. While I'm looking for the audition area of the building (called Victory Building or Victory something anyway), my dream shows me some of what other contestants before me are doing. The vibe is a lot like early 2000s American Idol, with all the same judges with addition of Louis Walsh (so Paula Abdul and Simon Cowel and Randy Jackson are all there). A tall skinny white guy dressed in office clothes comes into perform a dance & acting piece. He's funny and charismatic and the judges and audience immediately like him and everyone expects the performance to go well. Also, it's not a stage, more like the rooms in American Idol, except the audience is there somewhere to the side. I couldn't see them but I knew they were there. Anyway, the guy starts off this weird dance to slow sensual music where he's "caressing" himself and does this for a while which makes everyone feel uncomfortable and awkward. He dances some more and starts sweating. Then he invites Louis Walsh to come over and lie down on the ground in front of him, which for some bizarre reason Louis does. The dancing guy then pulls his pants down, naked buttcheeks and everything, and pees standing o n Louis. Apparently to symbolise "domination" and "mark property". Everyone gasps. The guy then drags Louis up on his feet, calls him a "worthless piece of metal", gives him a military helmet & jacket and symbolically sends him to war, slaps him on his back (which made a metallic clang when he did so) and pushes him away. The music then changes and turns into an act. The dancing guy pulls up his pants and takes out an AK out of nowhere and starts talking in Russian, something about ethnic cleansing. Then a military woman appears out of nowhere, sitting down on a rock or tree stump nearby, he points his gun at her and bosses her around, but she doesn't even flinch. Takes out her own AK and points it at him. He realises he can't scare her or dominate her so he lowers his gun. Then I'm back to myself. I'm looking on my phone to check the building map and see where I am (via Google Maps). As I do this I keep trying to decide what I'm going to perform at the audition. I'm singing "Wicked Garden" by Stone Temple Pilots while people also hoping to get into the contest are laughing and chatting around me. I also notice a strange mark or scar on the inside of my left arm, literally a crescent 🌙 moon shape, small. I try to remember where or how I got the scar, but all I could remember was heat and burning in that spot. Then I guess while I was looking at my phone I got distracted and went on YouTube where I found a never before seen footage of Nirvana in Japan. Kurt had somehow acquired a digital handheld camera and pointed it at himself. Krist Novoselic was there, as was Kurt's mom for some reason. It literally looked like Kurt was trying to make a selfie with Krist and his mom while pulling silly faces. It was shiny new technology to them, and Kurt was like a kid transfixed by a toy. They looked like they were at a restaurant or an arcade, with low reddish lighting. I remember Kurt's mom was really eager to leave but he was really trying to get the three of them in frame. Under the video were some comments but the only one I remember was someone saying "Oh yeah... Digital." With digital bolded. Because apparently handheld digital cameras were a thing in Japan in '94 or '93 and people forgot about it. I guess everyone felt weird about seeing Kurt Cobain handling "new" technology that's less 90s and more 2000s, it feels slightly "off".