I had an interesting thought this morning concerning a dream I had last night. In order to explicate, I first have to describe a portion of my dream from last night.
The dream took place in a gigantic parking garage wherein a man actually sold cars to people (I got the feeling that the garage was a kind of enormous commercial shopping center in its own right, but my portion of the dream only concerned the car salesman). Anyway, he had this very small midget that he took care of (?). In one scene of the dream, the midget was upset about something and hid, and the salesman was trying to coerce the midget out of his hiding place, which he eventually succeeded in doing.
In the very next scene, I recall walking up towards one of the cars the salesman was trying to sell. In order to better sell these cars he would place dummy clowns in the seats. Well, when I approached the car I saw that both the salesman and his midget were beneath, or behind, the dummy clowns that had been placed in the car. This in turn led me to understand that they had been murdered and placed beneath the dummies in order to conceal their bodies. Suddenly, the salesman's eyes opened up and he looked at me. Terrified, I ran away instead of trying to help.
Now, my question is this:
In the dream I understood that the man and his midget had been murdered; this is why I ultimately ran away. However, there was no blood on either body, and the salesman actually opened his eyes in the end of the dream. This forces me to ask: could my mind have misinterpreted the dream in my dream-state? Was it saying something completely different, and I understood it wrong? I realize that this goes against everything we've come to believe about dreams (i.e. what you think in a dream is the "truth" of the dream), but I think it would make for an interesting concept; maybe a good science fiction story.