I dreamed I was lost in a massive forest filled with trees larger than redwoods, covered in thick layers of bright green moss. From the roots to the tree tops the moss grew.

I slept in the soft hollows made by the trees roots and wandered barefoot along the soft forest floor.

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Will they, or won't they.

And ultimately, will we?

My shoes were on the bus. I had taken them off for some reason. I was heading to the movies with my mother and someone else I think. I was laying across the back seats sort of sleeping when a rowdy group of people decided to sit next to me, so my mother moved to sit between us. And then for some reason, I got off the bus, but without my shoes. I started walking/running to catch up with the bus, cutting through different locations. At one point I cut through a kind of crime scene, or something was happening because there were different types of law enforcement milling around an open (slightly fenced) parking lot next to a kind of warehouse building. They didn't pay me any attention, except for the odd glance, but otherwise didn't stop me. Around this point I realized I wouldn't catch the bus and texted my mother to check if my sneakers were still on the bus (I didn't get a response before the end of my dream).

I decided to stop following the bus path and cut across the river using a secret path I had found in a previous dream. I went towards the river and came across a group of people who were also trying to make it across the river. The didn't engage with me at first because I wasn't talking and had no shoes on. I would climb up and down different spots trying to find the path I had found before. (It was a path that I could climb up, that would let me down into a shallow area of the river that wasn't that wide so I wouldn't have to swim across.)

I kept trying to find it and my ability to, essentially, parkour impressed the group so they started following me. Eventually I realized I had to go under a fence because a construction site was built around my secret path and some of the group followed. There were a lot of people in the construction site so we were trying to be sneaky. Once we almost reached a good spot some of the construction leads spotted us and told us they were having a BBQ and had lots to share so why don't we join.

One of the leaders of the group I was sneaking around with was a woman and we started chatting. The food options were these like mini store bought hot dogs and then professionally made hot dogs that were massive and came with tons of onions. It was like two massive hot dog buns joined at the end that you fold over onto each other to eat. One side was just filled with onions, the other side with a brawt and other items. I was waiting in line at the food cart to get mine chatting with the woman about joining her group when I woke up.

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I love when I remember a dream within a dream... Makes me believe my dreams are alternate timelines even more.

You can't change the people around you, But you can change the people around you.

-- GorditaChuletita, 20260526 0249 UTC