First of All, this guy I know named Konrad is a very popular nice guy who goes to another school, but I've known him forever, so That's who I'm talking about. He bothers me sometimes because he's so popular without trying, and, not that he meant to, but him and his possy have basically made a certain girl not like me anymore because hanging out with him and his popular crew has made her think she's above us. So all in all, this is what the dream happened like!

Odd on so many levels. First off, I'm in some store that is a lot like Wal-Mart, but, like most of my dreams, the environment is twice as big, so it's shaped like a Wal-Mart but the cielings and walls look more like a Mall or a giant ass Sam's or something. I notice while I'm there that I'm actually like a ninja, and I have myself a huge Combat knife. The whole time I'm trying to get to the back of the store, behind the cash registers to see a movie, without being seen. So I'm sneaking around dodging glances, and I somehow get behind that actual screen.-

Wait, skipped ahead a bit, before I get into the theater, I see Konrad, and he notices me and says something like "Hey Caleb!, I'm here to see the movie too!" in that stupid excited Konrad voice, and I was basically like "Yeah that's great Konrad." And before I enter, someone says something I forget, and he replies to them with something I forget, but all I know is that it was really witty, and eeeeeveryone laughed, and I was left standing there going God damnit Konrad, your instant popularity anywhere annoys the shit out of me, I hope you die.

So anyway, I was behind the movie screen, but I was submerged in water, in some kind of contraption that flows backwards and the crevace behind the screen that I was in was gradually shrinking. It reminded me of a video game task where I had to do some stupid mini-game thing where I escape from certain doom, and I was about to lose. I was too far away from the end, and it was closing in too fast, I was either going to fall off the edge of nothingness in a water fall, or I was going to be crushed, whichever suited the dream at the time, but I somehow skipped that scene and ended up in my seat.

Then I noticed my seat was still behind the screen, and there was no screen anymore, it was just a giant hologram movie. And the cool part, it was dog fights. As in Plane fights, which are called dog fights, but they were realistic as shit, and then there was some kid beside me that followed me throughout the rest of the dream, who I now think was Chris (my friend) at several places. He changed into a bad ass in some places too, pulling out a huge-ass combat knife when I did, and then turned back into a kid again, and so on. In the middle of the dog fight I get a call from my "commander" who's all "There is an enemy in your midst, get out now." So I whip out my knife, which is still really huge, and(here's the cool part) I signal something to the whole theater and like half the dudes in there whip out huge knives and head for the doors. But they all head for the other door, I head for the one on the right. Why? Cuz there the bad guy was, and I got to play with him. He looked just like all the other guys, holding a huge combat knife, but he also wore bright silver body-armor and a beret. At this point in the dream I realize, I'm not really a bad ass, and I'm just Caleb holding a combat knife, but I somehow fight him and actually get away without getting stabbed. I block an attack and run through these green doors, two of which that close off an empty room about the size of my computer room, not very big. Then I get to the other side and my mom is holding open one of the doors, and the guy attacking stops at the other one. He attempts to charge us, but is stopped by my mother slamming the door, and the other door behind him is slammed shut as well. He screams "NOOOOOOOO!" and then i realize it's an air-lock, and he's never getting out while he's still alive.

We all get out, and I'm all crying and shit, cuz I'm a big tough manly guy, and I'm telling my mom where to go to meet my commander cuz she's in real danger, but she's not listening or cooperating, and it's becoming more and more dangerous for her. Wait, let me back up again, somewhere in between all of this I saw Konrad cracking wise comments and making everyone laugh, and pissing me off. Anyway, I finally get my mom to beat it, and I end up walking out the door with the kid who is now Chris by my side. And who do I see, but Morgan, Konrad's little brother, and I'm like...hey. But this is not the current Morgan, this is morgan as I knew him back in like the sixth grade, he looked like a little tiny kid. And I'm like...huh. Then I think I forget something, and walk back into the mall/Wal-mart thing, and I see Konrad YET AGAIN. He waves to me, I nod to him. Then the clerk says something to him like, uh "Man this really ruined my plans." Then Konrad goes, "I bet that's what that guy in there is thinking!" in that stupid Konrad telling a joke voice. They both share a good laugh, and I'm like oh god damnit, I hate you... and I just leave. And I'm thinking as I walk out just how freaking frustrating it is he's so popular and cool, and any time I talk to ANYONE from Page Konrad aaaaalways gets brought up, there has hardly been a time where he hasn't.

And this is not to say he's a bad guy, he's a really nice guy in all honesty, but his reputation annoys the SHIT out of me.

So I walk back out the doors, and Morgan is standing facing away from Me and Chris taking a piss. And we tell him Konrad is annoying us, and he's like "really, why?" Curious, but not at all surprised. I say to him, "He's just being kind of a snob right now." Thinking back I bet that probably didn't go over well telling his brother about it, but he doesn't seem to mind. "Not that he's a bad guy, understand, it's just sometimes he annoys me a little." I say excusing myself as I walk out the doors. Then I hear the sliding door open and Konrad yells out "Have fun on your (blank. I was doing something I had a name for, but I forget what it is now)" and I basically don't even acknowledge him.

I thikn I realize what this dream is about. I feel defeated and jealous that Konrad is Mr. Popular without even trying, and this dream was exentuating it. It made me a trained killer with a knife that doesn't look up to anyone, and still I was annoyed with him. Basically, I feel like I'm defeated by him even when I rock, even when I do something way cooler than he does, I feel like I'm losing a battle with him, now why is that? Even as a killer I felt jealous and annoyed, and this is weird. Or maybe it's something else, is there symbolism here?

I think maybe you're obsessing about Konrad too much, but you probably know that already. Our own lives look like movies in dreams, and they are like movies in our memories, so watching movies in dreams is a bit like looking at a film of ourselves sometimes - how we see ourself now, how we want to be or whatever. In your movie bit there was a dogfight, which is usually a one on one pilot type scenario, and I guess this is another metaphor for the competition you feel with Konrad, like he's your rival or arch nemesis or something like that - all blown out of proportion because that's what dreams do sometimes, turn a little thoughts of jealousy or just niggling irritation into big wars and fights etc.

That sounds logical, but it's odd because I don't obsess over the guy in my normal life. I really rarely speak to him, and he's not even brought up very often unless I'm talking with someone from Page.

Maybe the idea behind the dream is sprung from a more primal urge in me, because he's really a nice guy in reality, and these feelings of irritation and disliking for him, although happen in reality, have never been quite so powerful as the dream itself. The dream seemed to magnify a minor irritation, something at which I would normally just roll my eyes, into an entire story about how I hate the guy, which is not true, nor is the magnitude accurate.

Konrad himself is a distant thought to me most of the time, which is why I find this dream so odd. I had not thought about him the whole day, and all of a sudden he's in a dream I had, and I really disliked him. And I found the feeling of the dream carrying over into my waking life for several hours, and I realized later that I totally don't feel so strongly about the situation. Is this odd?

It's almost like these feelings of rivalry are artificial, or bottled up subconciously, and are repressed upon returning to conciousness.

I think it's maybe more about you than about him, and that Konrad simply represents an idea or notion that kind of irritates you only a little bit in waking life, but is totally exaggerated in your dreams. It's quite a fun dream really by he sound of it, with ninjas and combat knives etc, and it could be just a device for getting your blood boiling a bit, to be more competitive, or sure of yourself/your abilities, in waking life in general and not have anything specifically to do with Konrad.