( I actually had this dream the night before my mom had surgery back in December. It has just been sitting on my phone.)
I am off to visit a friend tonight, Cheese. She lives in a world where wizards dress in garb from 50s SciFi flicks. But she is not a wizard. She and her boyfriend are king and queen of the engineers' club. Cheese is pregnant and they must plan for the baby, but are also working on Engineers' club meetings and homecoming. Their house is in a tree and, most remarkably, a spaceship made of tinfoil. I ascend and find them on the couch planning a float for the homecoming parade.
The mayor is in their house and inquires about me. He doesn't seem to like me much, though Cheese vouches for me. I leave, as to avoid creating any problems for Cheese.
In front of their house is a little swampy area. Here I find some geckos and a bunch of gecko eggs. How cool! I put them in a little white box. (What is it with me and boxing up cute animals??) But during my walk through the swamp the eggs hatch! Those aren't geckos, they're alligators! These alligators are trying to eat my little geckos. I make a wall within the box and separate alligators from geckos and stow them away so I can go back into town, where Cheese's house is at.
Now I learn that that the head honchos (such as Cheese's friend, the mayor) have everyone convinced that leaves are terribly poisonous. They've devised a department for leaf extraction. A large street sweeper and men in hazard suits with leaf blowers reign terror on the fallen leafs.
I cannot stand by and allow this deception to go unchecked! I start yelling at people to "Watch me. These leafs aren't poisonous at all. They are wasting your money. Lying to you!" I then proceed to pick the leaves up. They were pretty yellow maple leafs.
As you might imagine, this really sent the big whigs into a tizzy. Leaf extraction crews turn into SWAT teams and helicopters chasing me. I try to pick up my box of geckos on escape through the swamp, but instead simply leave it open to allow them to escape.
I am awake and left wondering, 'Why were their houses in trees? How did I know they were wizards if they did no magic?'
I hope the alligators didn't eat those geckos.
