Cheers and Mediation

Last night I had a dream that was like being in the TV show Cheers. Not that too many of the main characters from Cheers were there, but we were a group of friends, and by the end of the dream we had ended up in a place that could have been a bar. I was a guy in this dream, and at the beginning of the dream I was on a date with a girl from the group of friends. We enjoyed it, but had to absolutely keep it a secret from everyone else. I amazingly was able to keep a straight face the next time I saw her when we were around all of our friends, or when any of them were talking about her. I guess I was having problems with my health, because I got some supplements that came in a powder and pill form. One of my friends from the bar, a fat guy whose tongue was stuck out like he was licking his upper lip, warned me to not get into drugs. That's what happened to him, he started out with a supplement, went onto drugs, and as a result his tongue was permanently damaged to be in that position. Somehow then I was myself, in this same setting, and the guy who I had been earlier in the dream somehow got some extra money and was using it to throw a karaoke party for his friends, and invited me to join. I didn't recognize any of the songs that others had chosen, and am not sure what I ultimately ended up choosing, or if I ever did choose (I'm also pretty sure it wouldn't have been something that I would choose in real life).

My next dream was brief, but needs a little preface. I'm in a mediation class at school, where we are learning how to help people negotiate and problem-solve disputes. Yesterday we were working on a hypothetical where this old lady lived in this house where she'd lived for 60 years, and this law firm wanted to buy the property to build a new office building. The old lady wasn't sure she wanted to sell it, she'd put it on the market a few times but had never accepted any options. We brainstormed lots of different ideas, everything from leveling the house but letting her keep her gardens, moving the house, building a monument to her in our new building, giving her an apartment in our new office building, etc. So in my dream last night I came up with what I thought would be the perfect solution: start building office buildings above the existing house and letting her live there until she was ready to move out, at which point we would redo her house to fit better with the floors we had built above the house. Of course, now that I'm awake it seems less likely to work. Also, the point of mediation is not to have one party unilaterally come up with "the best agreement" but to have both parties work together to find a solution that is satisfactory to both parties.