Ever have a dream that had you feeling completely exhausted when you woke up?
Met some friends for lunch at a mall food court, but then for some unexplainable reason I had brought my own food and needed to microwave it. And on top of that, there was suddenly a deadline for eating which was never explained, but because I had brought my own food, I inferred while in the dream that we were in school and it was lunch break... at a mall court school cafeteria.
There weren't long lines but they weren't moving either, so I kept going from one vendor to another. The only public use microwaves that I found which didn't have lines inexplicably had too much kitchen equipment in front of them which meant no one could even reach them.
Then as lunch time was almost over, I finally found a couple free microwaves, only to discover that they were both filled from top to bottom with noodles. Not someone's meal that they left unattended, but just noodles everywhere. I used my hands to pull the noodles out, but somehow that cross-contaminated the meal I was trying to microwave (I could tell it was contaminated because suddenly my lunch had pink highlights, even though I don't think the noodles were pink).
Somehow the stress of running out of time made me feel tired when I woke up. Dreams always make perfect sense while they're happening. Then afterward you realize how insane they were.