The One with the Toilet That Saved the Town

I was jogging outside in a place that seemed familiar in the dream with Tim, John and Tina (I think) from work. I remember commenting that I wished I had worn pants because I didn’t like the feeling of things touching my legs when I ran (like tall grass and twigs and stuff). Tim starts running faster and I speed up to kind of race him – John and Tina fall behind, going at their own pace.

We get to this big building with these big aqueduct-looking things. They were kind of water-slide shaped – but bigger and made out of concrete and painted blue like the bottom of a public swimming pool and the paint was cracked and peeling – like the place was old and not kept up. The plant growth in the area indicated the same thing.

One of the aqueduct things acted like a water slide into a large pool and Tim slid down it into the water, which was fairly far down. I stood at the top and watched Tim and noticed when the wind blew, when it rustled certain leaves on this one tree right near the edge of the pool, it would make this warbling sound.

I looked closer and on the leaves there were these clearish little bubble sac things with insects inside. Tim looked at them with me and as we poked at them with a stick, it became apparent what they were – but like Tim was reading something about them but there was nothing to read. He said that the purpose of the building was that when the insects were messed with (as we were doing), the pool would flood and when the water touched the insects, somehow the insects would poison the water and the water would flow out and poison everyone in the surrounding towns.

I noticed nearby there were other aqueduct-slide things, some pointing out into the forest and stuff. The water started to fill the pool and we looked around for a way to try and stop it. There was a bathroom near the pool – with just a toilet inside. I had an idea and opened the back of the toilet up and fiddled with the ball so that the toilet would never fill and it would just run. By doing so, it would keep the pool from getting full enough to poison the towns. I think next we were thinking of breaking the whole toilet but I woke up.