Last night I had a doozy of a dream. I will do my best to explain it how I remember but I wish you could have just experienced it with me.

I was on the beach camping with my family and it was night time and all my friends were going to play basketball in the water but I didn't because it was dangerous. so I went for a walk. I walked all night and when I got back to the beach the next morning, the place was packed. Apparently, there was some huge concert thing going on. Well, after walking all night, I really had to use the bathroom so I found the only bathroom and the line for the womens room was SUPER long. Like stand in line for 3 hours kind of long. So I decided I'd just wait. Since I was camping on the beach front, I had a great "seat" for the concert so I made my way down this super super steep hill, trying not to step on people too badly (which was impossible because there were hordes of them) and I finally made it to the front. Once I got there, I saw that there was a bathroom right next to our site with hardly any line. So I got in line and realized that there was not "mens room" "womens room", it was just a big open room with 3 urinals on the right wall and one toilet on the left wall. Well, I was in the right line so when I got up to the front I asked the guy in the left line if he would switch with me so I could use the toilet rather than the urinal and he said yes. But when the person in front of him finished, he went to the toilet. I was pretty frustrated since, by this point, my bladder was pretty full. But rather than using the toilet, he took out a sponge and wiped it down and then offered it to me. (What a gentleman?) So I walked to the toilet trying to figure out how I was going to use the bathroom without defiling myself or anyone else and I must have figured out a way because I don't remember anything else of that - I just remember that they did an article in a magazine about me "The woman who showed propriety in an open restroom" or something weird like that.

So I go back to my campsite and all of a sudden my best friend from High School shows up with her kids! I didn't even know she was going to be there but she was looking for her husband, who had booked tickets really early and got seats right next to our site. So we hung out with them for awhile. I don't remember any concert or anything ever happening. I just remember that we were all chatting and then, out of nowhere, the hill next to the one with all the people on it started rumbling and shaking and the railroad tracks started falling off. Then everything started shaking and then there were thousands of shooting stars all at once and the world started spinning. Our cars were parked on a really steep hill and I wasn't sure if my parents car would make it out because it was parked the wrong way and it would be impossible to turn it around with all the shaking. It was like an earthquake, but it wasn't. So after about 5 minutes of detail that I won't go into, I saw that my parents made it up the hill. I was about ready to run up after them when gravity disappeared and I fell into the sky.

But rather than falling into space, I landed on another land. I wish I could draw you a picture. But there were 2 "earth's" and the ground of one faced the ground of the other sharing a common sky. But you couldn't see it. I didn't know another world existed above ours until I fell into it because before, gravity always held me down. So I found myself hanging on handlebars from a playground on this new world, watching the world below me, that I had been on, fall into chaos. I watch lions and jaguars and tigers and zebras all chase each other around the beach, and more stars fell and I realized that it was the end of the world (well, that one world) that I was witnessing. And with another lurch, I was flung back to regular earth and landed next to my parents who had reached a door. They pulled me through and slammed it shut and then everything seemed normal. I was upright, there was gravity, there was no chaos. There was just a woman in a toga. She explained to us that the world we had lived on had been destroyed and this was a parallel world we were in. Before, it seemed that this world was upside-down (when, in fact, this world was upright and the "earth" as we knew it before was actually upside-down) but now, it would seem just like the other world in looks and feel, because it was all that was left. Everyone who didn't make it through the door perished.

Then another woman came up and started yelling at us. Apparently our ancestors had lived in this world and been in a feud with this woman and that's why they left. So now that we were back, she wanted revenge. It was my mom, dad, brother (all like my real family) and then I had a little sister. (Which, in real life, I do not.) My sister was standing in the corner and as this woman kept yelling, she said that she would take something precious to us for her revenge and, before we could even comprehend what was happening, she pulled out a gun and shot my sister. But my sister had bought a replica sword at the "concert" on the other world and had it tucked in her shirt so the bullet hit that, bounced off, and hit the shooter in the chest. As she was dying she said to us that she was wrong to have tried to kill us for her fight was with our ancestors, not with us, and she was sorry. And then she died.

Then, another woman, who looked like the dead woman's sister, came up and said that, because we hadn't tried to fight back or retaliate, she could see we were people of character and she would help us in this new world. She said that the people of her own world were not quick to help the newcomers and there was a shortage of jobs but she was make sure we were cared for. So we walked into the first restaurant we came to, a bagel bakery, and she told the person behind the counter that my dad was a hard-worker and a person of integrity and she needed to give him a job. And so my dad got a job and I guess that meant we were going to "live happily ever after" (starting from the ground up in a new, unfamiliar world that looked just like ours but was vastly different in culture and character).

And then I woke up. SO strange. Wish I had a dream interpreter right about now.