The one with Potato Salad: The Musical!

I dreamed that Jen had written a show called Potato Salad: The Musical! She had recruited a large number of youth to put on a production and was holding rehearsals in our backyard. The rehearsals were all day long and very noisy.

Jen was in the middle of a rehearsal one a late Saturday afternoon and she started to be concerned that our neighbors might be getting annoyed. She asked me to go check on them and find out how things were going.

In my dream there was a gate in our backyard that gave me access to the two cul-de-sacs behind our house. I went through the gate and walked up to the first house. It was totally dark inside. I rang the doorbell and waited a few minutes but nobody answered.

I went to the next house and the same thing happened. At the third house I could see people inside but they turned off the lights and pretended not to be home. I looked down the street and all the homes looked totally abandoned. It was clear to me that our neighbors were really annoyed by the rehearsals and they had almost all moved or at least gone on long vacations.

By this time it was starting to get dark, so I went back through the gate to our backyard to report back to Jen. The rehearsals had paused for dinnertime. The kids had been split up into groups, and each group was sitting around a campfire cooking hot dogs and s'mores.

It was really dark now and I was having a hard time finding my way around all the campfires to find Jen. I was also really hungry and was trying to figure out where I could get a hot dog or some stuff to make s'mores with.

I finally found Jen and told her about the neighbors moving away. She seemed concerned but said it was important to continue the rehearsals. I asked about where I could get some food and she said, "I have this cheeto that has been dipped in cheese whiz," and handed the cheeto to me. I carefully took it from her so I would not get cheese whiz on my fingers. I really like cheetos but I don't care for cheese whiz.

Recently I have been trying to be more willing to try new foods, so I popped it in my mouth. At first I had the satisfying crunch of the cheeto but then the nasty tasting cheeze whiz started filling my mouth like a gooey paste. I tried to spit it out but no matter how many chunks I spat out it seemed like there were always more in my mouth. I finally got enough of it out that I could talk. I told Jen that it was disgusting and asked her where she got it. She said that she had just found it lying on the ground.

Dreamed around Jan 2022