Why Do You Hate Your Mother?
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Vague.
I was in a place like Wal-Mart with my mother and at least one other person, a young woman; I think also my brother and a friend of his were present (it was like he was unmarried and his personality was similar to when he was a teenager or in college). I was near the electronics section and had already browsed the DVDs and was considering replacing one of my existing VHS movies, like Brother Bear, with a DVD copy (something I think about in real life), when I dimly remembered that I had already picked up a new DVD on this shopping trip, and I didn't like the thought of buying two so I went to find Ma and the others. I think I was holding something in my hand, perhaps the DVD, though it was like I didn't have it since I only vaguely recalled getting it; perhaps it was in Ma's cart or something.
I ended up in what was like a videogame arcade. This does not exist in real life. It was dark and dank looking and had those big old videogames in it, like old-fashioned arcades, but was empty except for us. Ma and the other woman were already here near one of the games on the left. I think Eric and his friend, also a guy, showed up. I passed a game on the right and upon it (the body of the game or the screen, I'm unsure) there was this redheaded woman drawn in a kind of square style and she might have been shrugging and grinning in a silly fashion as if to say, "What can you do?" I believe she looked somewhat like my "avatar" of choice from when I long ago played the computer game Ultima VI: The False Prophet in real life. My avatar had long curly red hair and a little golden tiara or circlet and I thought she was so pretty. This character, though, was drawn kind of awkwardly for the videogame (recalling the large square pixels of long ago) and also for exaggeration. I feel she was primarily a serious character but could be goofy, and when she was goofy she was drawn in a goofy fashion (like in anime). She was likely some kind of warrior. I turned away from the game to face Ma and the other woman, who I think also might have had long curly red hair though I can't be sure. We were near the back of the arcade, which was just a flat dark wall.
Ma and the other woman were standing before one of the games and were discussing it or looking it over. I figured they must want to play it or something though it wasn't entirely like a game; maybe they could use it to make phone calls or withdraw money, like an ATM? In any case, I figured they were trying to find out how to work it. For some reason I thought they, especially the red-haired woman, might have trouble reaching something on it, and I glanced to my right. There was a little aluminum stepstool or two parked beside the wall in back. I turned back to the others and they inserted something in the machine, like money I believe, and then relaxed and started talking. I thought they were waiting for the machine or game to work, but nothing happened, and they just kept chattering obliviously. Meanwhile Eric and his friend were standing to the left side of them as if they were stoned or something.
I waited, then began to grow irked by how long this was taking. Apparently, they had not been interested in using the videogame after all. At some point earlier in the dream (or in my memory), Ma and I had made plans to go somewhere or do something, and now this dawdling was making me impatient. I at last stepped toward them and tried to cut in, asking something like, "When are we going to go _____?" (whatever it was we were going to do) or "Are you ready to go yet?"
They looked at me. Ma was cheery but unconcerned, barely even seeming to notice or care for my presence. I was mostly angry with the red-haired girl though since she was the one distracting Ma, and she gave me this look as if she felt I didn't matter at all, no matter what we'd planned before this. I might have reiterated what we planned to do, then perhaps the redhead and I exchanged a few words; all I know is I was steadily getting angrier and she finally did this little exaggerated flounce or something and exclaimed in this airy sigh, "Oh, why do you hate your mother?"
O_O That pissed me off SO MUCH! Who the heck was this girl that she felt she could say such a thing? She didn't know me! She even knew she was angering me, as her manner of speaking proved. Now she was indicating that me bringing up the promise my mother and I had made earlier was a sign that I HATED her! I was so mad!
I tried hard to keep my head and took a step toward them again and said, "I don't hate my mother, and I'm irritated that you would say so," giving her a very foul look as I said it. Even as the words came out, though, I struggled to find the right ones, and knew that "irritated" hardly described how I was feeling. I was just so enraged that she would say something so horrible and in such a flippant manner when she barely even knew me. To think I'd even been planning to help her by fetching a stepstool!
I glanced toward Eric and his friend but as before they just stood there looking rather out of it.
I believe that's all I recall of that one. The strange girl elicited such anger in me that she must have been some sort of Shadow figure, though I don't understand the significance of much else.
