Unfamiliar Hometown.

Playing a game of basketball in like 1960s-1980s New York on a low light indoor court. It was attached to my parents apartment and they had another couple over clearly their friends. I think they were watching a movie or going to a movie soon. This basketball game was a strange rematch from years prior where these guys had beaten us badly before but we came back to play them. I think we’d somehow come back specifically to play them but our best player wasn’t there. We opened up the scoring fast. I think I scored the first 6 points then they started trying to be overly aggressive defending me but I kept blocking their shots and passing the ball to other people immediately. At one point during a scrum for the ball some younger kid in the other team threw in a football to try to either hit me or hit the ball out of my hand and me and the other guy stated fighting over the football instead and I ended up tearing the laces out while having  the tug of war. We were all low class type people and it started to take on the theme of the warriors (the film not the basketball team). Once I saw the kid was dejected I was like Man don’t worry I’ll buy you a new one no need to worry and patted him on the back. I know usually when I try to touch people in dreams it often doesn’t work so it was strange that I felt his back. It meant a lot to him and they started treating me differently. At half time they all headed outside and one of my teammates asked for $5 to grab some drinks and I pulled out my wallet which had a ton of shit in it as well as a lot of money and he reached in and started to grab more money and I was like nah man only 5 is okay. He started going through my drawers saying he was looking for something but I knew he was looking for more money. He left when I closed one of the drawers and I was like sorry Man nothing in those drawers. Once he went out I started organizing the cash in my wallet by denomination then found money in the drawers and shoved the money in my pockets and the guy came back in. He told me he was thinking of leaving town but I made him realize how desperate he was being and he changed his mind. I went into the bathroom to continue organizing my money and my parents friend came into the bathroom as I was organizing the money and started laughing and yelled out to their group “it’s just like we were just talking about”’and they said back “no no we would know” and I felt like it was time to leave so I finished organizing my money and left.

 I had my flight delayed somehow and ended up heading back into modern day Long Island almost specifically levittown. But it was completely different. I was in a hotel and found a friend’s boyfriends phone and was looking through it. There was a video of them Fucking on it and I recorded it on my phone but also there was a card that had multiple links with no description that I was typing into an Xbox and all of the videos were just clips of them talking and playing halo while they were in a long distance relationship. So I left the lobby I was in and was going to leave the phone back in their room (because i saw the room number) and as I was putting it on the desk it got another text and the text was a different video of them having sex and as it showed up another person in the room was like “hey man please don’t watch that.” And it was one of the girls male friends who was apparently actually the one who was dating her now and these videos were now “real time” videos of them recording them cheating on this one guy. And I understood the weight of that and was like of course Man. Certainly.

 I ended up in a car and parked in a parking lot outside of a movie theater and I was sitting there fucking with my phone and I hear someone say “isn’t he from Gamestop? He’s cute” and it was a kid and his mom but I think the mom looked like Nora Durst. I recognized them and was like yeah I used to work at that store back in 2007 but I moved now etc and she was saying that now everyone that works there is autistic and it Sucks to shop there. She ended up going into the movie theaters lobby to buy tickets and I said to the kid for real? Autistic and he was embarrassed that she said it but confirmed it. I said that I was sorry and he didn’t respond and I realized that somehow my car was parked in a movie theater and we had been talking through the movie the entire time. We moved the conversation out into a diner type building and the two guys there overheard our conversation and were like, ruminating on autistic behaviors and said “well when I’m talking to someone i don’t like to be touched or have someone close to me” and I was kind of shocked by that. I’m not sure why because I hate that too.

I started to feel like I was going to miss my flight and started panicking that i don’t even know when my flight was. I arbitrarily chose 730 because that sounded like a good flight time. Then found the closest train time was 715 and knew that train wouldn’t get me to the airport soon enough but bought that ticket anyway. As I was buying the ticket I messaged a friend “on Long Island for 2.5 seconds” and she messaged back “I have stories for you maybe chipotle time?” And I said no I actually am leaving for my train and she said she was on her way and I think that panicked me so much I woke up.