Strange Dreams

Everyone Dreams, but the dreams I mean here are those that come from all that REM at night. The kind that seldom makes sense and is only recalled if you wake up suddenly, as if from a nightmare.

It starts in what might be a postbattle settting. A Pioneer Wild West sort of feel. It follows a bunch of boys, adolescents really who seem to be running away from a battlefield in the winter. The boys seem to be from 2 families or clans.

They come upon an abandoned farmstead near a lake. But there seems to be a sinister air about the lake. I think they discover a pile of money in the abandoned farm and they send one of them off to buy food for the rest while the rest continue to search the farm. The eldest boy sends of one of his younger brothers because he senses something wrong about the whole situation. As if it could turn bad at any moment, and pulls the brother to one send trying to hint to him that he should not return. The elder suspects that the other group might turn against them...

The boys begin to find food... and the elder realizes that sometimes, the food seems to replenish or become fresh again when near the lake. Also, some injuries seem to disappear from those who have been in it.

Scene seems to shift a little to the future... or past.. but it seems to show the same lake.

This time we follow 2 girls wading through the pools thick grasses. One looks to be about late teen while the other is early teen. The younger is commenting about how she would love to have a baby when they come upon what looks to be the corpse of a young girl, maybe 4 or 5 who looks to have drowned. The young teen girl is frantic to pull the little girl out and revive her while the older is trying to make sure the younger teen does not herself drown. Mysteriously though, as they pull the little girl to shore she coughs and seems to revive.

Scene shifts again to a 'town' it's still rustic and wild west-ish.. but there seems to be modernity in the form of a vehicles.
We find that the Town Mayor talking to some kind of accountant about his preserves (bottles of fruit?) and trying to get some sort of tax evasion thing?
The accountant is short , and blames the Mayor for it during the mayor's 'colleciton' periods when torture was used to obtain more taxes.
After they get to some sort of agreement, the Mayor shows the accountant/tax official his 'car?' and almost gets killed. The Mayor sends the accountant off.. and when the accountant gets into the car next to the garage and smiles at the Mayor who has gotten into his car, the car explodes.
At this point, a slow motion detonation occurs.. but is no ordinary explosion, as it reverberates throughout the town. The force at the heart of the explosion is enough that the vacuum created sucks in debris and glass.. the glass sucked in actually superheats and causes another plasma explosion to occur in the same location.

The rest of the dream I might recall some other night...