messed-up dream (update)

I had at least 4 dreams while attempting to sleep last night.

1. People were in my front yard playing with mud and throwing it at eachother. This is something people in the Christian "Youth Group" would do at my old high school, every now and then they would gather and play in the mud. In the dream I just watched. There was also some stuff before that I can't remember quite well (it involved someone from overseas mentioning they were going to New Jersey though).

2. A band was setting up to play a concert in my house. I hung out with them and told them I've liked their music for a long time. One of them looked like this so I imagine it was Slipknot (though I haven't listened to their music in at least 9 years, I used to have dreams all the time about meeting bands I liked so this isn't rare). I'm not entirely sure but whatever... Anyway, for some reason both of my grandparents were in my house as well. At one point there were quite a few people I didn't know in my house waiting to see the show, but since it took the band so long to set everything up and wait for all the members, by the time they were about to play there were only about 5 other people there. The lights dimmed down and the singer (I think) standing at the opposite end of the room asked me "What would you like to do with your future?" and I responded "Well, I'd like to be a successful musician", and he got pissed. He started telling me how it wasn't going to happen, moving closer and closer just talking until he was right up in my face. They never performed. After this everyone was outside, and I looked at the moon. There were circular gray blobs growing and shrinking all over it, and I got someone's attention and told them. They freaked out saying "It's the dragon!" and I was just kind of neutral. The blobs grew bigger. They looked like compressed video, like you can see on Youtube. Everyone panicked and left, and suddenly there were three helicopters hovering by my house. They were setting down what appeared to be red tape and some kind of stringy, sticky transparent fuel next to the red tape around the perimeter of my house (and every other house in the neighborhood) and I somehow knew they were going to be set on fire. I went inside looking for my family but they weren't there. I remember screaming for my dad, but no one was there. I went back outside and the lines were set on fire. I think it was napalm. I watched someone try to escape and they instantly burst into flames. I then tried to jump through some of the shorter flames before I was trapped, and the dream ended.



I can't remember the other 2 dreams at all. There are a couple personal details I left out of the ones that I mentioned. Of course, if I could think after I woke up (impossible when someone decides to turn the TV upstairs on, it completely destroys my capacity for neutral, observational thought) I would remember a lot more. I felt really shaken after the second dream, it was really vivid. Seeing the moon blobs didn't scare me, those quiet helicopters did, though.

Update: In the second dream, there was a black van parked outside my house on the street. I woke up this morning to see the same exact van parked outside (in the same exact spot), and three people I didn't know wearing black (like the people attending the "show" in the dream) were standing in my yard. Later my little sister mentioned a "black ambulance" to her friend and she told me it belonged to the plumbers who are restoring the water pipes in the part of the house which had to be rebuilt.