My memory of this dream is patchy and I don't know how the pieces connect or if it was one dream or many.
I am playing a Sims-like video game in my basement. It's multiplayer and I'm playing with friends. The dream seems to cut back and forth between this and being with the same group of people (which consists of my real life friends plus a few people I don't know) at a restaurant/bar/cafe with dark wooden booths. For some reason I need to find a partner ASAP, kind of like when people get married to get a green card or health insurance but I don't think that was why. I'm sort of speed dating the people in the group who I don't know to see if any of them might be a good option. One girl makes our characters get married in the game. I turn to her in surprise and she says "what? You have to marry somebody in real life soon so this seemed like a good first step." She's very beautiful with black wavy hair and pale, pale skin with a sprinkling of freckles across her nose. I'm not sure what to say. Thinking about it now I think she was a version of what that girl O I liked in 8th grade before I knew liking girls was a legitimate option probably looks like now.
My family is at a house on some sort of beach with the B family and we brought our dog. The dog of course wants to run around and maybe go in the water and since it looks like there's a long stretch of sand between the boat house and the water and I am told it gets deeper very gradually I decide to let him. When I go through the boat house and open the back door however the water is right up to the threshold. It's clear enough to see the rocks at the bottom but looks 3-4 feet deep. The dog runs past me, excited, and panics when he immediately has to start swimming. He knows how but he's an old dog and tires very quickly. I try to pull him back up through the doorway and into the boat house with me but he's suddenly much, much heavier than he is in real life and this isn't a good angle to lift anything from, especially a very squirmy dog. I know somehow that getting in the water myself is a bad idea so I start calling the names of other people in my family and the B family to come help me. With each wave he gets pulled a little farther away from the boat house and so I grab his collar to at least keep him from floating away. Eventually we get him in but it takes 4 out of the 6 of us kids plus my dad to do it.
I'm back with the friends from the first sort of segment of my dream. A and S and M and their respective boyfriends, plus a gradually increasing number of other people none of whom I know in real life but a handful of whom I seem very close to in the dream. The girl who looks like O unfortunately doesn't seem to be there but I keep looking for her as if I expected her to be. We're at a house party, I think at the same property as the boat house from the dog dream. The main house is enormous and the way the various rooms go together doesn't really make any sense. For example, there are 2 different basements. One you access by going down stairs that has wood paneling and a pool table. The other you get to by going down a ladder at the end of a hallway. It seems sort of half-finished with unpainted walls and folding chairs and cast off furniture. I'm trying to find a man named Silas with platinum blonde hair and keep him from sleeping with a woman named Vivian. My reasons for this are twofold. First, it would have consequences that would affect all three of us and second, I am a little bit in love with Silas and can't bear the thought of him hooking up with one of my friends at my party. I've never let on that I was interested in him not only out of fear of rejection but because *apparently* we're both wizards and wizards aren't allowed to be together in this world. I'm extra upset because Vivian is also a wizard (and I think the three of us work together?) so maybe that wasn't the barrier I thought it was after all. When I finally track down Silas it's too late and when I confront him he's like "why do you care? It's not like anyone important enough to get us in trouble is ever gonna to know." I ask him "Don't you think things might be weird now, between the three of us? Did it ever occur to you that I might care on a *personal* level who you hook up with as a guest in my home?" then walk away. He starts to follow but I ignore him and go for a walk with my friend A. Then I wake up.



















