dream: the games
This is a reoccurring dream that happens so rarely I forget about it.
It's some kind of competition, for some prize I don't remember. Around 100 people take part (I don't know the actual number or how they're selected). There are two favorites to win and they get like, squires who are also competing but can help the favorites. The competition is a bunch of obstical courses, some puzzles, and then a brutal obstacle course to finish. It's possible everyone fails and there's no winner.
I remember in the dream I was one of the 'squires' for one of the two favorites. I remember being like, halfway through the competition at a resting bathhouse place, I was with them in a private room while they bathed and had photos taken since they were like, a celebrity of the games. I remember telling one of the staff that I was non-binary and everyone was very excited about that for some reason. After some very lewd bathhouse photos we left the competition continued.
I remember some tunnel where people were goong through different gates to get to their obstacle course, and there was a big neon sign that read "Hiring Non-Binary is Good Business", and myself and the people around me were a bit confused, like the sign was being supportive in a weird way.
After a difficult area that involved a lot of rope climing and crossing large gaps, there was the final rest area, kind of like a large public shower area. Myself and the other squire got distracted and didn't realize we were the last to leave, so we had to catch up. I remember beingbat a full sprint, specifically pulling iff the flip-flops I guess I was wearing the whole time to run barefoot on the concrete to an the big penultimate water obstacle course, where it turned out it was just myself and the other squire left. It was like a big wet inflatable wall with prongs that would come out at random intervals for you to grab, but the could also knock you off and throw you into the water below.
I managed to make it all the way through, as the last competitor, putting myself in a weird funnel slide thing to go to the final area.
I remember going through a large inflatable tunnel blocked off by large plush cubes, the easy challenge that blocks the view from the final one. But then I woke up.
A weird dream. I'm writing this all as I wake up, and it's still kinda fuzzy. It was neat though, I don't feel bad about the dream. I know at some point (I think it was in the puzzle area) people in the dream had sent me money too, in envelopes, I don't know why though.
I wish I could just force myself back to sleep to continue the dream, because it was interesting, but that's ok, at least I wrote it down!