I had this dream last night that I downloaded this new mini-game from Xbox Live called "Skin Box" that turned out to be a virtual reality program that pulled you right in and was indistinguishable from reality. I appeared in this room with about a hundred other people. The room was cylindrical and about five stories tall, open in the middle with floors circling the outer section....
just picture this. I'm sitting on the second floor with some girls, including some I haven't seen in years but were aged correctly, as well as Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling as they looked back in the early '90s.
Everybody is wearing sort of futuristic blue leotards, because it's a "yoga tournament"(I have never done nor seen anybody do yoga in real life). In the middle of the room there is a huge blue mesh net that stretches up from the bottom of the cylinder, designed for climbing. I climb down the net to the floor on the other side where a couple of my friends I know are, coincedentally on Xbox Live too. The "tournament" starts, involving a bunch of us starting to climb up the net from the bottom as far as we can, the "winners" making it all the way to the top and anyone who falls off being "out". The net twisted and turned all the way up and there were parts where in narrowed down to be barely big enough for one person to hold onto it and everybody else would either fall off or grab onto the boot of the person in front of us and form a huge chain of people that would swing around the cylinder until more of us could manage to clamber back onto the net-path. The game ended before anybody finished but the plan was to continue from the same places next time. We all said goodbye and I logged out by being launched backwards out the side of my 360 like it were a small door, landing in my living room.
The rest of the dream involved me and my extended family going around the province to a series of Outback Steakhouse-like restauraunts in deep winter. The whole time I was so excited to get back to the Xbox to continue the game. When I finally did, I realized just before I started playing that I had dreamed the whole thing. I was so dissapointed. But I was still in the dream and didn't realize it.
The next part was pretty much a nightmare. I'm in some sort of war, standing on a hill with a beach in front of me. There's a row of soldiers going along the beach in both directions, facing the water, where more rows of hundreds of soldiers each are coming at them. They're all dressed as British redcoats from colonial times, using musket rifles with bayonettes on them. The soldiers on the beach are impaling the invaders as they come in and shooting through several of them at once, but I think they're losing. I hear somebody say "The one thing that all these boys have in common is that every single one of them would rather be going down a waterslide right now. But instead of going down waterslides, they're killing each other." The Sun is rising on the horizon behind the water, but it's glaring and harsh to look at and the sky is red.
I go down the beach where a man is sitting at the edge of the water with his dog, a pomeranian, while a big pitbull sort of circles around threateningly. The man takes a corpse that has washed down the beach from the war and pushes it into the water where in floats back toward the battle. The pitbull runs after it to start eating it and is shot and killed in the crossfire of the battle. The man sends the pomeranian after it to eat the pitbull. After a moment the pomeranian comes back, but now it's covered in blood and has an evil look to it. It grins, and its mouth is literally like two feet wide, filled with bloody fangs. The pitbull had rabies, and now the pomeranian has them because the man made it eat it. The man looks stupid and confused.
I wake up and am very relieved it was all a dream.