What are compensation dreams about?

I was in some kind of cooking competition alongside Andrew from Binging with Babish. We were on a team of people that had to cook something for some reason. It was complicated, but I don't remember what the dish was. The oddest thing, was that the owners of the kitchen we were using wouldn't let us inside unless we followed their one rule: No penises allowed in the kitchen. All the males on my team, me and Andrew included, had to get our dicks removed before entering. It wasn't painful, but I remember feeling creeped out looking down and seeing a small dark hole where my dick used to be. The owners were very apologetic, and gave us all giant 2 foot long pencils as compensation for our inconvenience. We retrieved our penises at the end of the competition.

Just woke up from this dream.

I started the dream working as, what i can only describe as an animal control officer apprentice. Basically I had finished training but I hadn't been promoted to officer yet. We got a call that there was a situation, so me and a small team (one or two others) went to take care of it.

It turned out to be an overwhelming amount of Feral cats that the others up and left me to take care of. I ended up doing all the work: Capturing them (just chasing them around and grabbing them with my bare hands lol i got all scratched up), taking them back to the shelter, putting putting them all into their cages, and having to a rearrange where the other animals were already in the cages to make room for the new cats.

This project needed to be done that day and I  worked well into the night to get it all done. At one point, animals were getting out or being left out of their cages in the common space, because my cooworkers were being lazy. I had to deal with that too.

At that point I was really fed up. I was basically doing all the work and not getting proper compensation for it. but that day the only thing my higher ups cared about was that my attitude seemed poor.  My "manager" said "You need to take care of your additude, do you even want that promotion/raise?" And I exploded "do you even want me to work here? because I've been done training and doing the job I trained for for 6 months while you're still dragging your feet to get the paperwork done for the change in my job title and the raise i was promised when i finished my training. Today I captured, checked in, and did all the paperwork on 15 feral cats. I had to pick up after everyone around here too just to get those cats into crates." They basically scoffed at me and then I got my belongings out of my locker and walked out. Quit on the spot.

Side: I've never worked for the animal shelter or Even looked into into how to become an animal control officer irl btw. This might be an average day for an animal control officer idk, but in the dream I was going above and beyond.

The next morning I was wandering around in the countryside, kinda melancholy feeling.  I saw people tending to cattle and doing farmland work (they're all really weird and warped dream versions of the jobs). the people there were working as a community and seemed happy but I but I didn't feel like I was capable of the physical labor it took to do those jobs. then I stumbled on this job/group that naturally dyed cloth for work.

I started this new job and i thought 'this is some hippie thing'. We were outside in the woodsish, not actually the woods, similar to a clearing or a public park. We were all sitting on tree stumps and They gave us a short speech like introduction. then They told us what we're gonna do and then put us into groups. 

My group made dye from blue flowers. then we prepared the huge swath of fabric for the dye together. then we dyed it and hung it out to dry. and that was my whole day. (I started in the late morning and finished just as the sun barely began to set btw)

after the day was over I felt super happy and proud of what we'd done. I was living in a small community now and thought "if I see anyone wearing periwinkle shirt, then i'll know that I took part in dying that fabric." At the end of the dream all of the fabrics that all the groups had finished were hanging up on a giant clothes line to dry, and I was just looking at it all and thought it was a really pretty sight. then I woke up

There's alot of elements from this dream that my brain totally pulled from my life but it made a new narrative out of it. What happened at the first job was like a combo of the two "career jobs" I had. I've been learning about making pigments and dyes (mostly for paint making purposes but I do have plans to dye cloth) recently but I hadn't really considered doing it for work, let alone seeking out any job like this. Does my subconscious want me to live on a commune lol?

I dreamt I was poor and rejected by society but suddenly found myself taking the place of a socialite, there was an unknown turn of events where I was awarded a lavish life as compensation for injustices I'd suffered. Initially everyone hated me and was angry saying I had no business there, trying to undermine, slander and steal from me and I had to lock myself in my new home so they couldn't attack me. I stepped directly into the life of the kind of woman who'd done the injustices right down to the parties she'd planned for her home and the gifts she received effectively dethroning her. I now owned a grand Southern style property that was a cornerstone venue in the community with high society events running there.

Next I was a guest at a party but people were worried about making a good impression on me. The hostess had a deep pool she used for free diving, I was impressed by her skill and bravery. The couple were very concerned that I approved of every detail of the event.

Next newcomers to the area were trying to impress me and gain my approval but their teen children kept being rude and unruly. I had come full circle from being the outsider to being an elder member of that society.

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(cross posted in the lucid dreaming subreddit)

Ok so after like this weird game where I guess it's based off the games I played growing up - where you take turns vs you and the enemies to either defeat them or proceed and reach the goal destination, it's a school thing in my dream for some reason.

The game was sorta you shoot the enemies to death/hp bar empties but the enemies are just disruptive students and you can also stomp on them to quickly k.o. them. Anyway I didn't realise you could actually shoot while moving thinking it was a one turn thing and ended up nearly losing and dying thankfully I got it last minute and quickly got on the escalator with some others and we did like math worksheets? And I said oh remember how I transferred from our Canadian school to an american one I said to my childhood friend and she goes ow right and I'm like yeah. So I ended up not doing calculus because they do geometry and actually algebra was apparently done earlier or something

Anyway after talking about that - even had an old schoolmate from the US school pipe in and I used to hate that one but for some reason I was ambivalent this time - and finishing the worksheet and being allowed to head home at like 7pm??! It's dark rip I complained. also for some reason everyone had towels going up and some people littered their towels going down on the escalator????

Anyway. Revisiting old dream time! And I think before the game and math dream I had a gardening dream where we had a class teaching everyone how to propogate properly and wouldn't that be nice to have irl. Anyhoooooo. Walked all the way home, saw plants, took cuttings, saw other people, I scuttled along feeling like a criminal and then bam. Got home for some reason no longer dark I just realised, sunlight all over, blinds were up, and actually on the way home, I went over a bridge overseeing a river and my home is apparently upwards after a stairs from the ground which is different from irl where it's flat on the ground.

Except. Wtf people were going up to my house???? Huh??????? Bit embarrassed people can look in my house but like wtf ???? And also thankfully I cleaned up a bit the night before I think so it wasn't too bad. But also still. Wtf? People were poking their heads in like whatever and I'm like excuse me this is my house please leave. They leave usually after that. Had one ask if this is where the restaurant is and I'm like um.no. fudge off. Anyways afterwards for some magical reason there actually is a restaurant right by my veranda and then the chef / owner came out saying oh shit I forgot to tell them but then I remembered we actually had an email about this a few weeks ago.

So apparently we shared the same agent. Same name irl as the one I use. Then we somehow made a compromise. It's just 20mins a day. I get some occasional free meals for letting then use my veranda. Even tho apparently we both paid rent and happened to share the same fucking thing.?!

I'm like ok great forward me everything and it took them almost an hour to fucking copy and paste my email and I watched with painstaking detail in my dream until I woke up shouting/exclaiming no thank you! To their compensation gift I guess as they can tell I was getting frustrated with one of the waitress unable to just copy my fucking email down j even typed it in but they couldn't even copy paste it what

So their compensation gift was some kind of American meat. They emphasised the American bit. Not sure why. Owner seemed Chinese. Place I guess was fusion but super red. Anyway. I said no thank you! I'm vegan and I can't even give this to my cats because this is garlic yoghurt flavoured.... And I woke up. Saying that. I think. Lol. And I woke up way too early like just six hours nooo

Anyway. ..... What the fuckkkk does any of this mean ......? I had an app to record if I talk or other noises going on as I sleep but I realised shouldn't have put it under the pillow I think if I want it to record better wew