I dreamed I was playing some multiplayer game which I can't make much sense of anymore. At first, I spawned on a beach, and followed a sandy path to a large circular clearing surrounded by palm trees. Here all the players could walk around and talk to each other, and I think were supposed to obtain some information. I remember after finishing all my required conversations, I started talking to some guy about our Roman Legionnaire skins, and I meant for there to be some joke apparently, even though I just stated an observation our characters were Romans. I recall us walking to another part of the beach, but I'm not sure what happened next.

We were on an island, and around the clearing were several paths leading to different parts of the beach, as well as to a village that circled the island. While I was chatting in the clearing, I don't think I'd dreamed up the presence of a village yet. Players were now supposed to regularly leave the clearing, searching for items and information in the village, which was separated into segments. After a player was done searching a segment of the village, they'd return to the clearing and discuss with other players. It seemed the ultimate goal was to find out how to leave the island. When the game had gone on long enough, aquatic creatures and a small Cthulhu, measuring maybe 15 feet tall, would attack the players, and could usually kill every player fairly quick. Besides constant attacks from his minions, which crowded the map, Cthulhu would charge up a red laser beam and fire it from his octopus mouth (not a beak, more like an Octillery mouth). Usually, no one would find a way off the island in time to avoid dying to this spawn, and Cthulhu's laser could one-shot several players at once.

I remember leaving the game for a while, and scrolling through some achievements I'd earned for spotting the weird things I'd seen in the game, as well as some achievements I hadn't unlocked, which included seeing a woman on the beach that no one else could see, and petting a dog that was growing out of a wall.

I attended an Albert Einstein lecture, and I remember some dialogue mechanics like I'd originally dreamed up for the multiplayer game. When he was at my desk talking to me, I asked him about the cardboard he took notes on, and he assigned for me to create notes about six scientific concepts I'd learned about, and present them to him on Monday (in the dream, it was Friday). I had no idea there would be a second lecture, but I agreed. He also told me he'd be giving me a head start, as most people would be receiving this assignment on Monday, due Tuesday.

At some point an overnight bus was involved. Not sure where I went. I vaguely recall a beach.

I returned to the Cthulhu game, and came close to escaping the island. A friend and I tracked down some pearl necklace, but we hadn't found out what to do with it before Cthulhu spawned in our segment of the village, and annihilated us with his laser. We tried again, and while travelling between village segments through the beach, I saw a mysterious-looking woman in a black shawl off in the distance, standing against an old wooden fence along a high ledge. As we walked up a narrow uphill path toward her, she looked more and more strange to me, and I realized she must be the woman from the achievement. I asked my friend about her, and he wasn't sure what I was talking about. After passing her by, I turned back, but she was gone. Then we entered the village, and we saw a small dog with its front half sticking out of a wall, lying on the ground. I forgot the achievement was for petting the dog, not for just seeing it, and after commenting on the dog's situation, we continued on. Fortunately we spotted a red dog in the same position, and we pet this one.

We found a segment of the village neither of us had seen before, and entered an inn to search for information. As soon as we left, Cthulhu and his fish creatures started spawning, and we were just running around desperately trying to find anything before we died. I even managed to avoid Cthulhu's beam, by fleeing into a graveyard while Cthulhu was charging up. I lost track of my friend, and he came back to me with the pearl necklace from before, and said he found them in the ocean. He said he'd learned about them, and that they needed to be brought to shore, placed in the sand, then had to be carried for a lap away from and back to the island, then had to sit in the sand again, before they could turn into shells that would give the player the swiftness to leave the island. He gave them to me before being killed by Cthulhu's creatures, and I ran off. I placed the pearls in the sand, picked them up, and swam out maybe a hundred feet before returning, avoiding attacks from Cthulhu's minions as I swam. The whole time, I kept thinking I would surely die, but at least had learned more to help me next time. I made it back to the beach, still crowded by Cthulhu's minions in every direction, and placed the pearls in the sand, where they cracked open, and broke into a pile of small red shells. I took them in both fists, and felt a power come over me. I ran back to the water, with Cthulhu on the my tail, and once in the water, I pointed my fists and was propelled at quick speed along the surface. I broke free of the crowds of minions, and kept swimming until I found land again, only minutes away. I spotted a dark south Asian boy with long hair, fishing from a grassy ledge, and I went to see if he could lead me to his village, wondering when exactly the game would tell me I'd won. I woke up around then.