yesterday, i was up all night. i fell asleep at 2pm yesterday. in my dream, i was in school, and today we had to play a game. it was very important that i played this game (i don't remember why). my oppnent: my closest friend. the goal of the first game was to get to the treasure first. we were in a maze, i was able to see the whole maze. the only reason i won was because i started closer, and i skipped the math and geogrphy questions. it was a fair win, but next round, my friend started right next to the end, and i started the next game. the next game was much more complicated and long. we had left the classroom and were in a large town. my brother was there too. he was my younger brother, not my older one. the goal: survive a night in the freezing cold. we broke into someone's house, and when they found out, were surprisingly not mad, except for the daughter, who was angry about her beloved bonsai tree, which i borrowed for reasons i don't know. somehow, i woke up in a storage unit, and spilled the bonsai tree, to find that one of the trunks was simply a stick attached to a root belonging to the original tree. i rushed to fix the tree, returning it to her exactly how i had gotten it.
we got to the last part by sneaking through a flea market of sorts.

the last game my best friend didn't even take part in. we went to a virtual reality game center. my brother was still there, and we fooled the system by playing a one player game with two players. i didstinctly remember playing this system with my friend, but the game we had played was completly different. we entered the game, which started with an alien battle field. i saw my friend walk through the field, assumingly to play the same game. me and my brother donned military uniforms, with lazerguns. we walked through the map, reaching the alien leader. it took us several hours (felt like minutes) to get a good shot at both it's eyes so we could kill it. afterwards, while we were leaving, a chubby kid ran though to start the game as we left. my friend started out with us, all her hair three times as long.she had apparently been watching a marathon of the old planet of the apes tv show in the movie theater, and told me about how they had been even more mutated in the tv show than the movie. i immediately awoke, 16 hours later, my head on the wrong side of my bed, with my mom telling me i had been talking in my sleep the whole time. she couldn't remember what i said, but assured me i had said strange things. the dream had seemed to take two hours, even in dream times.

Young animals play when they are young as a way to prepare themselves for when they have to hunt to survive. Games were invented as a way to solve disputes between people so they didn't have to kill each other or go to war.

So playing a game in a dream has to do with preparing yourself for dealing with a conflict or a difficult situation.

Your breaking into the house in the second game, which involved you having to survive in the freezing cold, is probably your unconscious' way of telling you that in a difficult situation, you might have to break the rules.

The treasure in the first dream probably represents a goal you want to achieve.

A bonsai tree is supposed to be a perfect model of a normal tree, so you taking the bonsai tree and breaking it could be a message that things aren't always going to turn out the way you plan them to. Your being able to fix it shows that, nevertheless, you have the ability to make things work out.

The flea market can represent choices you can make in your life, once again emphasizing that you can find alternative ways of achieving your goals.

Your fooling the system in the last game has to do with the idea that sometimes you have to think of new approaches in order to get what you want.