Turning back time--flying on a musical note. (dream)

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DREAM

I watch a teenaged girl abandon a baby parrot at a Blockbuster. The employees aren't quite sure what to do with it, so they leave it in a nest by the security camera near the ceiling. The baby bird doesn't even have feathers yet. 

She leaves her vehicle in the parking lot. It's a Ford Festiva which belongs to her parents, and she hates it. She walks home and tells her parents it was stolen. They're very understanding. However, when they buy a Ford Festiva again, she abandons it again at a grocery store and claims that it was stolen again. The parents catch on and are furious. 

Then actual thieves sweep in. An organized crime ring targets the family and threatens to take everything from them. 

I rewind time, and the girl doesn't give away the parrot, but raises it. It grows bigger and likes to insult members of the organized crime ring, distracting them. She also doesn't let the Festivas get stolen, so she has something to get away in when the criminals come after her.

She, her brother and her parents all have to flee the crime ring. I see them in a situation in which they all get shot, but at least mess up a lot of the crime ring's precious pottery while they're being shot 1920s gangster-style in an art studio.

I decide to rewind time again and give the family super powers. 

I follow the brother's progress. He has the power to fly on a sound. He flies to a tiny gnome in a tree in the forest playing a keyboard. 

At first, the gnome writes down everything he wants to say in a scroll; but I intervene again and convince him to start talking, because it helps the brother fly.

INTERPRETATION

My friend sent me a video of an organized crime syndicate stopping cars on the road so they can rob them, and I'm sure that's where the inspiration for this dream came from. I think that sometimes, when I get distressed during a dream, some part of me that is almost lucid dreaming sweeps in and takes corrective action so that the situation doesn't get too scary. 

I think it's easy to ruminate about what could've happened if things were just a little bit different as well.