Attending something similar to a summer camp in a place similar to Yorktown Bay I am in a cabin with a lot of my friends. I know there are other friends at the camp but the only friend that I specifically noticed was Chad. Chad and I were eating some sort of snacks and crumbs were falling on our clothes, we were sitting. Sometime later I went to the cabin to find Chad's shorts on the bed and the crumbs had attracted thousands of ants. I thought it was foolish of Chad to leave the crumbs inside where his bed was teeming with ants.

Sometime later a general sound of excitement outside pulls me to the main road. There are hundreds of people now walking about but the only person I recall specifically is Tracy, and only for a little bit. Mainly, I was by myself. It seemed like something similar to a circus, but for a smaller group of people. There were some animals, but one group I specifically recall.

Over by the road I saw a truck pulling up with two lions in the back, a male and a female. I have always been enthralled with lions and tigers in my waking life, so naturally I went to them in my dreams. I started watching them from a distance as the handlers were setting up their event. They opened up the back of the truck and put chains around the lions neck. They weren't chains that looked painful to the lions, just restraining them from running free. I watched as other observers went to greet the lions.

The lion handler got in the front of the truck and held the chain. The truck had a window between the cab and the back of the truck. I watched as a few people walked directly up to the lions and got face to face, and the lion roared at them. This attraction was setup so you could stare a lion in the face and safely hear it's roar. Amazing, I thought to myself. This is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Somewhat nervously I walked up to stand in line. By the time I got in line I was the last person. I got to the back of the truck and looked in. The truck did not have a camper anymore, it was just a pickup with the back gate down. The male lion was no longer present and the lioness was no longer restrained. It startled me at first but the lion looked like it was sleeping. As I stood there and watched the sleeping lion the handler came out of the cab and stood over the lion. He told me that it was amazing because this particular lioness is very nervous and never sleeps around strangers. The lioness was comfortable with me, sensed no danger. He told me I could pet the lioness and I did, but only briefly. I couldn't keep my hands on her too long for fear of waking her. I wanted to be close to her but not wake her.

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After waking up in the night and then going back to sleep I had another short dream. Seemingly unrelated whatsoever.

Driving somewhere that reminded me of Burleson/Crowley it was storming. Not very hard, but it was obvious that a VERY heavy storm had moved through recently. Taking a familiar exit that I believe was the exit that I take to get to one of my friends house I notice that Eliel is driving. A few seconds after noticing that Eliel was driving I warn him of something I see right in front of us that he's going to have to swerve to avoid. It is a giant, clear, carry out box that you would get a restaurant. I say giant because inside of the box is a dead horse. It had obviously been dead for a few days as it's stomach was bloated. Eliel swerved and missed the horse and a few seconds later we see two dead horses laying on the ground to our left this time. These were freshly dead and I immediately surmise that they were killed in the storms. Not a gruesome sight, I assume they died from head trauma. As we swerve to the right to avoid the two horses we clip the back legs of the second horse and run over them. I think nothing of either set of dead horses.