I had this dream last night, except I wasn’t in it.  Which is very rare for a dream, or at least one that I have.  Usually I am an active participant in my dream, even if I am someone else entirely.  But in this dream, I wasn’t there.  It was like watching a movie.  I had no input over what was happening, nor an active roll, nor was I even a bystander in it.  I just looked on from above, or aside, or whatever.

Anyways, in my dream there was a brand new huge courthouse.  It was epic in scale.  Really.  It was an off white color on the outside, and had curved walls that seemed to spiral upwards.  Inside the courthouse was packed.  It was the grand opening and it was a big event.  A man was on trial for some minor misdemeanor that I can’t recall.  Maybe a traffic violation.  Maybe a random altercation.

What I do remember is how packed the courtroom was.  And how there were camera men, reporters, and audience galore.  There were two lawyers.  One was Nicholas Cage.  The other was a woman.  Nicholas Cage was the defense attorney.  I recall one of the reporters mentioning how in order to make this a complete event they had found the lawyers on the street (and in my dream there was a flashback of sorts of someone walking up to Nicholas Cage on the corner of a busy street and asking if he was a lawyer.  He hesitated and said yes, and was sort of impressed into to service as a lawyer for this trial.)

The prosecutor said her opening statements.  I don’t remember what they were, but just that she pressed for a conviction and imprisonment of the man.  After her opening statement Nicholas Cage asked for a brief adjournment to complete his remarks.  He then asked to talk to the prosecutor privately and she agreed.

They went down to the basement, where he admitted that he wasn’t really a lawyer, but that he was positive his client would get off.  When she asked how he said he knew the man was guilty but….

And then shoved her backwards and started running away.  Underneath the new courthouse was a whole maze of what looked like damp and dank alleyways.  To throw her off his trail he took off his shirt (it was a red button down shirt… he had another shirt underneath it) and threw it on a bum who was pushing a shopping cart (who for some reason lived in the bowels of this giant courthouse).  I also recognized the bum from earlier in my dream but have no clue what part or what role he played earlier in the dream (if he was really there at all).

Nicholas Cage continues to run through these alleyways looking for an exit.  I never see anyone chasing him, but he seems kind of desperate.  He then finds an electrical box, and pulls the lever shutting off all the lights.

And that’s how the dream ends.  Which is weird, because I swear I remember it being dark in my dream after he pulled the lever, and it not being the end of the dream completely, but nothing else happens that I can recall.