The Quaint Little French Bookstore (dream)

DREAM 

I drive to a little bookstore in a quaint small town, and all the books are in French. I struggle to read any of the titles, but the bookstore owner is kind, and he indulges me when I go up to the counter and ask him to tell me what the titles of interesting-looking covers mean. Hey, I could probably learn to read French, right? 

Meanwhile, there's a video game about this bookstore going on. It accompanies the real-life bookstore. But in the video game, we're kids searching through the darkened bookstore at night with our flashlight. I'm playing this game with friends. 

Then reality blurs again, and we get to a level at which the dad of one of the kids is a real-life dad, and he's telling his kid not to get on chat. (The video game is a chat.)

Wanting to continue the adventure, the kid finds the chat in a separate window on the dad's computer and starts it up again. 

This launches a sequence in the real life bookstore. The kid is in a tiny car, and he rams it at impossibly high speeds over and over again into the bookstore's shelves and patrons because he doesn't know how to drive it. 

INTERPRETATION

I was saying to my best friend last night how I've been feeling so gross from watching people fight on the internet for the past couple of days--especially in the comments. I was thinking that maybe I need a break from social media and YouTube. 

So instead of watching videos before going to sleep last night, I turned on my Kindle app and read some of the mystery cozy that one of my elderly neighbors wrote. 

It's a Hardy Boys style mystery, so I think that's reflected in the dream with the fact that the location is a bookstore (and a cute one, like the word "cozy"), and there is a child who gets into really big trouble for doing something he probably shouldn't in order to continue the adventure. Also, I think the way the video game is a chat reflects how the book is mostly dialogue.