dream

I had a dream that my friends and I all went to rob a bank together. To do so we had this elaborate heist plan that included travelling across a sort of theme park wonderland. Everything was going to plan but in one of the stages, which involved sitting on a conveyer belt-type thing that zig-zagged across a river, I was balancing my glass water bottle and the bottle part fell out of the holster and into the river. I panicked. I needed that water bottle. I had to get it back. So I tried to return to the spot where it had fallen but I was going against the direction of the conveyer belt so it was futile. Finally I jumped into the water and used my phone flashlight to find it again, then hopped back on. But I had lost us precious time. By the time we arrived at the bank vault, we were in fact only milliseconds ahead of another group that also wanted to steal from it. The gate fell down in front of the vault and we couldn't make it in; instead we randomly diverged to a corridor on the left to run away from the imminent police. That corridor was long, dark, and winding, and we finally emerged in a museum exhibit about astronauts. My female friend (who exactly it was, I no longer remember) and I were the only ones left. I don't know what happened to the others. We were both dressed in astronaut suits because, by the way, the whole heist sequence was set in the future. As I passed by an information board about the first man in space I saw my reflection. I had the suit on but not the helmet. My hair was in a bun. Everyone was staring at us as if we'd walked out of the pictures. Then I realised the museum was in Chinese. "Where are we?" my friend asked. I pulled out Google Maps and zoomed out and out and out. We were in Taiyuan. Suddenly I was excited. "This is where I'm from!" I said. "This is my hometown!" Beijing wasn't far, and from there we could fly home.