I do remember a dream thingy, and it was Navy-related.
When I was selected to be a chief petty officer, it was a huge deal. Only a small percentage of folks get selected when they have put in the requisite number of years, have passed the test, and have had high evaluations.
To become a chief petty officer (CPO), however, the selectee usually goes through an initiation. Some folks opt out of that, but they aren't considered to be "true" chiefs by the CPO coummnity.
The initiation, when I was going through it, was harmless fun...for the other CPOs...but was good-natured enough not to intrude on my private life or detract from my professional life (where they had access to me). I had to carry a "charge book", which I would surrender upon demand to another CPO who would then proceed to write in my book whatever charge he held against me (all imagined, naturally). At the actual initiation, those charges would be read aloud to the attendees with great enthusiasm and loud guffaws would ring out.
The ceremony itself was a bit disgusting as it involved a lot of chicanery and getting splattered with raw eggs or eating something from a trough (real food, but it looked disgusting).
When all that was done, the pinning of anchors on our collars was very moving and life-changing.
All that said, my dream was about me being a selectee but being in a room with a few CPOs I never actually knew. They were talking among themselves, while I was busy cleaning their office, detailing all the things they were going to do to the selectees come initiation day. One of them said something about putting us in boxes, closing them and leaving only air holes for breathing. He said that was when we would have to sing "Anchors Aweigh" 15 times before being set free.
My dream self wasn't swallowing it for a minute, but I remembered stories I had heard about how some CPO communities had gotten in trouble for going too far in their ceremonies. Some exceeded what happened at that Tailhook convention back in the 1980s, but it only led to ensuring initiations were modified to be less offensive.
