while this dream was a continuous stream of images, I only recall a couple or three "scenes", sort of like a bad movie that still has some gems in it.

one scene involved a situation where there was some sort of urban conflict. it felt like a protest gone bad or some other kind of insurrection in the name of some cause. each side had command posts and had taken prisoners. I was on the "protesters" side. our command post was in an old gas station on the northwest corner of an intersection and the prisoners were kept in the public bathroom in a trailer in the lot just north of the gas station. we left them all together and took turns guarding the trailer and hoped they would say something of importance. sometimes they spoke german.

another scene involved solving some sort of visual puzzle like from a Dell Crossword puzzle book. there were all these image fragments, like broken mirror fragments, that could be arranged in chronological order to tell a story or to discover information. the challenge was to figure it out. the images were in colour and 3-D even though the puzzle books are just newsprint. it was pretty weird.

in a later scene I had been sucked into the story of the images, or the images were no longer just a story but a real-life challenge required to resolve a problem. the problem was that a clan of ants were getting invaded and their chief kidnapped. I had shrunk to the scale of the ants at this point. well, they weren't really ants though becuase they had mouths and jaws, not insect mandibles. anyhow, they would never be able to stop what was going on unless I found the right mirror piece to show what was up with their chief.

most of the colours in the mirror pieces (which were now larger than me) were blacks and browns (as befitting scenes of ants) but there was some bright red in a couple. I was trying to track down how the red was introduced and what made it go away, in the sequence. oh, and what it was in the first place. finally I realized the red was the throne the ant-chief sat on. the ant chief was bigger than the others but more importantly, his head was extremely elongated, like so his jaw was almost half again his body length. I guess that was how they identified their chiefs.

once I figured that out I realized there was definitely a mirror piece missing that showed what happened with the throne. but that's as far as I got.