Woke up from this dream I was dealing with a couple coworkers from the east coast office and some storm was rolling in. The sky had that dramatic divide like when a haboob ones through and you can see where the blue sky disappears from the vertical wall or dust, only these were dark gray storm clouds. I was in the car waiting for Andrew to get in and realized my backpack and a bunch of paperwork were in the passenger seat so I started to move everything to the back and when he opened the door, sat a box of assorted donut holes down, and helped. I grabbed a couple of glazed ones looking for a chocolate one and ate them, he grabbed the box and I was all waaaaait, and he asked if I was sure about that and I said yeah, I’d deal with the consequences, referencing the gluten. And I grabbed a chocolate one and devoured it.
I was sitting in the backseat and one of my coworkers from Scottsdale was in the drivers seat and I said to pull over since it was my car, and he did and I got out to take over but we stopped in this building we parked outside of. It had wooden walls and a few coworkers from other companies were there. I saw Todd and he seemed pretty out of it on the couch. I looked out the window and watched the clouds. A couple other guys came up to look and when I looked at the window again the clouds were mostly gone.
I went outside and most of my belongings were on this bench on the sand that was slowly ending up in water, or the tide was slowly rising so I was trying to gather everything quickly before the water rose too much. And it was taking too long so I pulled on the side of the bench towards me, it moved forward and I fell on the sand. Then grabbed my bag.
Sabrina was going through this experimental surgery where she needed a small piece of my spine, like around my tailbone or maybe the very last vertebra, and I didn’t remember discussing prior but was going along with it. She’s been dealing with repeat surgeries irl life and is waiting on a third soon for a separate thing. And he was prepping her and I asked if I’d be going under anesthesia and the doc made some quick comment like yeah, I guess we would switch you two out so you can go under. And he wheeled Sabrina out and I kept getting increasingly nervous as I laid on the hospital bed, and my spine hurt, so I sat up. He’d already done something to it but I wasn’t sure if it was just a check or measurement.
My in dream assigned bf tried to talk me through and keep me calm, saying everything would be okay. He’d gotten the doc to do a body mod for him and Idk when they even had time but there were inserts under where his eyebrows were to exaggerate them and make it seem like one large eyebrow and when I looked up again he went from normal to looking like a cyclops and I couldn’t look up after, and got nauseated, and looked up again and he still had two eyes but one was more pronounced than the other and with how his hair was covering one some of the time it kept up with the illusion. I almost called out Futurama but left it and walked outside.
There were a bunch of scene peeps like there was an event going on and a lot of them were dressed up with the corset + ballgown skirt or fluffy skirt combo and falls. Dream assigned bf was normal again and looked a lot like Brendan which was weird. We were chatting and it’s like I knew what he was about to say that he wished so I said if this were back home I’d have more pull to make the event happen but I wasn’t really connected here. And then a lot of the girls started coming back and seemed distraught, one chick who has the same name as me walked past and looked very upset, then went in some door to another room… but we were still outside? Violet said she was going into shock. It was weird, they all had performed in some burlesque like thing and a majority has been involved in the goth or fetish scene for a while, some have been in the sex industry, and whatever they all got back from doing killed them all a little inside. I felt awful for them, but especially the one who walked away since this was her thing she usually took pride in. And dream assigned bf was all don’t feel sorry for her and started to nitpick at her, and I explained knowing her from back home, and this worrying me because of how I knew her.
We sat on a bench while more people walked by, mostly in steampunk attire, and this one lady with short light blue hair walked over and started enthusiastically talking to him without even addressing or acknowledging me, and that was annoying. So I injected myself into the conversation , “hi!-“ And she was all “oh, we’ve met before,” so I responded “it’s so nice to see you again,” even though I didn’t remember her or know her name, and we exchanged some superficial pleasantries and she said something to me in Chinese and I was all, “oh I’m Korean,” and she was all ahh, smiled, and walked away with her older friend.
I realized we’d been out for a while now and mentioned getting back to check on Sabrina, and had been wondering how the extraction would go, and how would he yank it out or what care would he take to keep my spine intact. And then I mentioned, if he messed up, I’d be paralyzed after a certain point and wouldn’t be able to walk again. I was walking very slowly up to the door back into the facility and felt awful cause I didn’t want to go through with it but felt obligated even though I didn’t remember a prior discussion before the doctors visit and didn’t give any prior ageeement, and woke up.