The One at the Mall

I dreamed that I was at a pretty large mall.  I went to a pet store that had tiny giraffes in the bird area and little frogs outside of tanks that would lose their legs if you picked them up.  I picked one up and a leg came off, and then another before I put it back.  Then after that I saw a sign that said not to pick up the frogs.

There was another area where they kept bringing out animals to interact with.  First there was a baby goat, so I got down on all fours and it climbed on my back.  At this point, my friend Mark met me at the store.  Then a woman dressed and made up like Marilyn Monroe brought out a lizard that looked like a baby alligator as it raced over to me, but then changed into more of a small gila monster.  At first it looked aggressive, but when I pet it, it became very affectionate like a cat.

Later I was in a restaurant or pub that had this weird bicycle looking thing and if you pulled a ring on a chain, it would open a gate into a secret section that was sort of like a cross between a game and escape room.  It was like a car with a video screen.  I "drove" the car into an area that had fire on the video screen and had to find stuff to put into funnel-like receptacles to put it out.  

A couple of kids came in while I was doing it, and they were trying to play it with me. 

Then I woke up.

The One with the Gorilla

Apparently I was staying at the school for a Martial Arts tournament because I had some bags that indicated that I was staying over for about a weekend and I had my weapons with me. I had a roommate - some guy that I did not recognize in the dream. Heather, Aimee and Mia were like one person that morphed into each other.

The Gorilla would lock the bathrooms at night and slept in the hallway near my room. If I had to go to the bathroom, I had to use the bathroom down the hallway, escorted by Heather. You didn't HAVE to have the escort, but it was safer that way. My roommate and I were waiting for Tina to come in and sneak us out - to escape. She was helping people escape, but could only take a couple of people at a time.

I went to the bathroom with Heather, using the girl's bathroom at first. I thought it was the only one. Then I had to use the bathroom again (I think I went back to my room first for a bit) and went to the boy's bathroom. I went for a very long time and then once I was done I had to go again. I had to go into this big sink that reminded me of a sink that would be in an art class for some reason. Heather was standing really close to me and she switched to Mia. I yelled at her for standing so close while I was going and she kept trying to look.

We started walking back to the room and I saw Tina and my roommate and maybe one or two other people with backpacks on like there were going to leave without me. My heart started pounding because I was scared I wouldn't escape, but they said they wouldn't leave without me. I asked if I should go back and get my bags, and Tina said maybe I should so I would have a weapon. She was carrying something like a tire iron. I thought about my stuff and said 'f that' I could get new stuff. If I got caught the gorilla would kill me/us. But all of a sudden I had my steel fan, which I was showing to Aimee for a minute while we were waiting for Tina for some reason. I was showing her how it could be used as a weapon.

We started to leave and I asked where the Gorilla was and Heather said 'In the cell checking the bathroom.' I wasn't worried that the Gorilla would notice we weren't in the room, but if it caught us outside the room, it would kill us. We got near the bathrooms and I saw the shadow of the Gorilla behind a door (had like frosted glass) and knew it was coming out so I ran toward the bathroom but didn't hide there because I knew it would check the bathroom. I whispered to a kid 'hide!' and went into another room - kind of a big empty room with some tables against the wall - kind of like a band room with no stuff, or a banquet hall room.

Then I woke up.