I'm looking out the bedroom window of my childhood home. I see across the field in amongst the bare spaced out trees black bears riding a school bus with a bear as the driver. Then the bears morph into black dogs. I look to the right and see men on horseback. The horses are black but also have a carrousel appearance. The animal figures vanish and reappear as they head in my direction, vanishing before arriving. I'm frightened by this because it defies logic. I wonder if anyone else can see them.
I didn't see American Gods, but if I had to compare the dream to a literary art, I'd say it reminded me of something out of the Book of Revelations. It had an apocolyptic feel to it, it was very surreal and disturbing.