I can't find my car, but I've found a really fast electric skateboard. Night is falling and I'm travelling down country roads with dense thickets of adult pine trees on either side. I ride through an interstate overpass that is still under late stages of construction. I pull in to a small building just after.
I'm in a newly built bar in a rural area. The place is mostly empty and the bartender is someone I know who in reality is recently deceased, but in the dream it seems perfectly fine. A couple I know shows up and buys me drinks while we play darts. The vodka is delicious.
~dreamwarp~
I've found my car and I'm on the freeways over some surrounding metro area. It's an extravagant network of spaghetti junctions that make navigating not only challenging, but fun. I'm trying to get to work somewhere, and it's my first day and I'm not sure where the hell the place is. I lose interest in finding my work and keep hugging cloverleaf intersections at 100mph. Good times. Out of gas. I pull off onto the shoulder of the road and I don't see any exits, so I hop the fence and wander into a neighborhood.
It's one of those pop-up subdivisions where they build 500 houses in a week, and they're all variations of a single floorplan and layout. The roads in this neighborhood are forbidden from being straight, it's a doordash driver's nightmare with lots of loops and circles and dead ends. It's all middle-class housing with many retirees with carefully manicured lawns.
It's getting late so I find a nice backyard and think "it would be nice to sleep outside here" and I look over and presto there is a nice bed next to the house. The owner of the house comes out and says I'm welcome to sleep in that bed that is oddly sitting out in the open backyard complete with pillows and comforter spread. I thank him and sprawl out to rest a bit from my walk.
As I lie there, I can't help but notice his neighbor has a very tall house, on top of which is lots of antennas and weather measuring equipment. One of the bundles is on a platform that rotates, with lots of cameras pointing out and it has a big screen on it with some web address and shows the camera feeds and weather info and radio frequencies and shit that he's observing. Kinda cool.
This seems like a great time to go into superman mode and show off my powers to the world. I fly up and do a little dance in mid air so the camera can see. I do some tower flybys using various swimming maneuvers and I notice that there's a pattern to how these houses were built. I start flying around just over the roofs and I keep hitting power lines which surprisingly don't shock me. I remember why; because I'm not completing a circuit if I'm flying. I start using the power lines like rubber bands bouncing back and forth. I get tired of this shenanigan and shoot straight up to get a bigger picture of the neighborhood. I get up to around 500 feet and can see that it looks like all the houses are part of a jigsaw puzzle that was put together wrong. It's starting to sprinkle rain and I worry that my bed in the backyard will get wet.
I have a bit of trouble locating that house again because things look different and the same up this high, but I eventually find it. Everyone is gone and all doors are locked, but I need a cover of some kind for my bed. I spot a nice big tarp in someone's garage and use my telekinetic power to float it over to the door, unfold it, and slide it under the gap underneath the garage door.
There doesn't seem to be anything here yet