I had another insane dream last night.
Was in some sort of school (grad?) and we were discussing a book, afterward most people started reading in class but I had some sort of blackberry thing and I couldn’t figure out how to turn the volume off/down and people started getting annoyed. I finally figured it out but kept using it everyone began to sneer because I wasn’t reading. They quietly whispered to the teacher and finally I turned around and said “Look! as a rule, why don’t you just mind your own work and focus on that. This isn’t high school.” Things escalated and I had to leave in a hurry. I told a friend nearby to pack and watch my stuff in case I didn’t come back soon enough. I left and ran through the fields. The kind of running done by Princess Mononoke. Very low to the ground, fast and frantic. Eventually I got onto the sidewalk near a road and met someone on a bridge. I didn’t know who it was but we fought. He had some kind of problem with me. The fighting was very much kung-fu, rather than boxing/street fighting. I ended up keeping him at bay when his friend came in and I had to flee. I killed one of them, or one accidentally died falling down from some greater heights. The fight stopped near the edge of a forest. We needed a place to bury the body. Looking around I slipped into what looked like the gully of a stream, but after I got up I saw rows of human skulls just beneath the surface of the water. It was a mass burial, sacrificial in nature. We had to get out of there, we got out of the gully, only to see more skulls and bones in the next one. After a short while we emerged in a basement of a house. A single man lived there, a modern hermit. It was just me now, the others were gone or out of my mind at this point. I scaled the stairs and found myself in a living room with kids and mothers waiting on couches and loveseats. Next my permanent retainer [goes behind the bottom front row of my teeth] began to feel loose. I picked at it with my tongue and it split into three pieces. At first it was a relief but then fear set in that something would go terribly wrong with my teeth. I pulled it out and examined it intensely for the first time ever. I looked up and there was my mom, she said we were at the dentist office. This hermit was a dentist. She explained that this guy was the cheapest dentist/orthodontist/dental surgeon in the city and it was all under the table without insurance or records or anything. It made sense, he’d been killing droves of people in his basement for quite a while now and this is how he got away with it, through black market dentistry. My mom went to the van for something but before she turned around I was running. Then I woke up.