Layers of dream

early morning dream where i donned a gladiator's armored vest and codpiece with bare legs, arrived at some large and rambling home, a few houses connected, parking my van in the street, mixing with a group of men who were making reference to a spiritual teacher they all recommended, were sharing literature with me, there was something familiar about her, then i realized i had done some exploration of her work and decided for certain it was not for me, this was alarming to my friends, some process was put into place to further discuss, but then i was moving down a hallway from that house to the next one, saw my 2 young children on the other side of a large dining room with no table and through a doorway that was evidently the kitchen, decided i needed to put something on my bare legs and went back out to the van, their mother pulled up in a damaged station wagon and got out, talking with me about why the car was damaged and what she had been doing, i'm making sure i have another pair of pants on, then we go into the house together, a dog comes out of the kitchen looking guilty, we walk into the door and there is the water/blood combination from thawing chicken in a pool on the floor, k & w are trying to manage the job of breaking apart chicken parts from frozen cardboard box cases for rearrangement in the refrigerator, another large blonde pitbull blend dog jumps down from the counter with a chicken back in his mouth, the kids are cheerful but obviously overwhelmed, i notice k uses her teeth to try and seperate one piece of chicken from another and spits the contents of her mouth into what looks like a purse, i inquire of their mom what is going on, she says something to the effect that she isn't sure because she is not there much, and i wake up.