I'd had a long and somewhat personal lucid conversation from someone who was criticizing how I live my life. I apologized for not doing better, but since things seemed solid I shifted the conversation to dream mechanics. It seemed we were in a toy store with a lot of other people.
me: "Okay, what about the attacks. What should I do?"guy: "Oh it's always monsters guarding treasures or something. I just disable that."
me: "You mean it's like a video game to you? Well I don't have any way to disable it. I won't last here very long if I don't get some help."
At this point I seemed to become tangled in a thin green tape, and was being pulled at by a medium-sized green shrub.
me: (panicked) "Here is a perfect example! Why is this shrub attacking me?"guy: (laughing) "I think you have it wrong, it's more like you're attacking it. Let's untangle you."
I stopped struggling and he came over and began looking at the green tape. Some other people came over as well and started looking concerned.
guy: "What the... no, you are right, this is going after you. It's not a shrub."Someone in the crowd picked up the tree, it seemed to collapse down into a base and vanish. The base was a green plastic thing that looked something like a smoke detector (or maybe this thing that Google Images found called a "laundryball"):
They dismantled the device and looked inside of it.
guy: "It's using an emergency room code."(Note: The insinuation I got was that the tree was able to whisk me away from the dream situation somewhat like how an ambulance would be assumed to be helping—and not hurting—someone it was taking away.)
