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This is a part of a friend's dream, posted with permission:

Its dark and raining and I am walking towards my van (an old one, no longer running in real life) and see a man with "salt a pepper hair" picking up some recycling. I help, and then realize that it is my recycling, and so I tell him I need to have the bins back.

Flash forward, we are at an apartment building. There is a big structure being built of concrete and cement out front. Some tenants out in front seem to be happy about this, because the structure was such that they won't have to walk up and down stairs anymore to get inside. The 'salt and pepper' haired man is there, and he laughs to say "yes, this is my project. No one will care what happens to their yappy little dogs".

He gets 3-4 little dogs that are on leaches, and puts them in the structure. He puts in some bricks, too, and closes a lid over them. I know that they will suffocate soon, and I wonder why they were not barking and whining. It seems like a cruel, evil, plan and I am upset.

An older car, with maybe 3 men and 3 women, and children not buckled in, comes barrelling down the driveway. They all have clothes with a nice fabric - white with dark pink/red flowers, and are laughing and carrying on. They drop of a bunch of dars and leave, still happy, with no cares or sense of right and wrong. I think of the word "gypsies" to describe them.

Flash forward to a house (the salt and pepper haired man's) in the same city. We are driving a horse hitched to a cart, and there is something we need to do here - find something to incriminate him? We have some of our nieces with us. We go in, but I am telling everyone to hurry, the man could come back. I am anxious not to meet up with him. We clear out, but forgot something. Some of us go back in, and downstairs I find my daughter and her fiance, with their dogs [yes, they are small and yappy, in real life] just hanging around. I say" you have to get out right away. This man is evil, he is trying to get all the small dogs he can and kill them."

So they get worried and leave right away. We wait on the sidewalk to get picked up by the horse and cart, whose driver was instructed to just go around the block once while we went in the second time.

In my dream, I saw a powerful train speeding along some tracks. On one side, an L-shaped pipe stuck out. It could have been an exhaust pipe, but it was actually capped, and under the cap I knew that there were "powerful" flowers. The cap would be taken off when the train stopped, exposing the flowers, and I knew that they would fill the entire station with a beautiful aroma. But while the train was running, the cap had to be on, otherwise the flowers would get damaged by the rushing wind.

I have some ideas on the meaning of this, but am missing something. Any ideas?