I had a pretty neat dream, much more continuous and clear than most I've had recently. Hard to exactly convey all the imagery of it, but it was based on the resort town up in Canada I was in last month for a conference. Basically it was pretty and everything but even more so since it was a dream, and I remember walking around with a group of other students in my field. We got to a rickety old elevator that went up to our rooms, and the elevator only had a door on the outside, no door on the elevator itself. A twin brother of one of the students basically leaned his body over the elevator while standing on the floor, and his brother was all "Don't do it, don't do it!" but he just stood there with a mischievous (and somewhat stoned) grin until the elevator lifted, cutting him in half at the waist. I was pissed off because he puked blood and guts all over my fancy shoes and pants. Then when we got to the top it was revealed that it was a prank, and that his brother had previously lost his legs in a car accident or something. I was still pissed off because there was fake blood and guts all over me.
Then I met up with my family and we decided to explore a bit more of the town that I hadn't seen prior, and it suddenly turned more Mediterranean in style. There was a loading point as we got to the next section and suddenly there was an ominous soundtrack, and then when we got there my youngest brother was suddenly only 5 years old or so again, and ran off. My Mom ran off to chase him and was like "Don't play with that!" when I saw what appeared to be a giant hypodermic needle sitting in a cubby near a pile of various homeless-type objects of refuse. When we got closer it turned out to be a giant thermometer, and my mom was relieved until I said "I think it's a rectal thermometer". We walked a bit more and tried to enter a hedgemaze but it had a "No Entry" sign, and suddenly we all got creeped out and decided to go back. When we tried to escape, three Filipino looking guys were waiting for us at the entrance, and said "Sorry, you saw too much, we have to kill you". We told them that we hardly saw anything, and they didn't really believe us. Suddenly they each unsheathe two freshly sharpened pencils, and inform us that they are the Ticonderoga Trio. Then they become like ninjas and start backflipping and kickspinning and shit left and right. My oldest brother and I disarmed a couple and stabbed them to death, but in the process I lost both of my eyes.
When we made it to the main hub area, I could see again, and I made some comment on this older black guy like "He looks like a nice guy" and my brother was like "How can you make thinly-veiled racist comments when you're blind?" and I think I was really close to waking up, and my vision just started randomly fading in and out, but instead I pondered it a moment and realized that I was actually using incredibly powerful sonar, and then my vision just became greyscale with this odd flickering effect, so things went on. I went to this bar nearby and met up with my advisor, and then he told me that he had four tickets to a Nobel Prize ceremony and that I could have one, and I was like "Sweet". Then I went over to an arcade machine in the bar, and started to play this Mario/Tetris variant. Basically, it was set underground and you start on a small solid platform. However, most other blocks are large and begin to do the crumbling thing if contacted, and that includes both walking on top of them as well as knocking them from above. Basically, you have to do all these carefully timed jumps where you might knock one brick above you, all the while timing it so that you don't get squished from contacting a previous block above you, and stuff like that. It kept going and going, and then the alarm went off and I woke up. Immediately, "Super Mario Rogue" popped into my head.
