elephant assigment

I dreamt that I was in a classroom of sorts. The class was working on a writing assignment. It was a casual feeling class, as everyone was sitting somewhere comfortable, desks askew and people sitting how they liked. The assignment was to write about the one thing that stopped us from our dream. Each of us was given a paper quill. It was a sheet of paper rolled into a narrow cone with a quill at the tip. I was trying to write with it, but the quill kept pushing back in to the paper cone. I new I could play with it a bit to get it to work, but I wanted to get a better idea of the assignment before the instructor left the room. The instructor was an older Indian man. He was nice, but also matter-o-fact. More black and white than emotional. It was good because he could get the point across quickly and didn't let you have excuses. I brought up the paper that I was supposed to write the assignment on. It was three horizontal rectangular pieces of hand made paper. Each had a large elephant on it with a baby elephant behind it holding the larger one's tail. We were supposed to write the thing that held us back and I'm assuming how it affected us etc. One idea on each sheet. For some reason this was not a simple task to me. I couldn't figure out what to put. He explained it again, identically as before, and I was trying to relate to him that I understood what was needed, but mine wasn't that simple. I stopped to think where I was "stopped" in my life and I realized all of me was stopped. I wasn't allowed to think, feel, hold my face in a funny way, express myself, do good, do bad, enjoy myself, pout or breathe. These three sheets and 6 elephants were not enough to express everything. I didn't have a little issue to work on, I needed a full life reset. I couldn't even pick the "most important" one as they were all one big issue. A friend of mine from high school (SK) was there. She wasn't necessarily the best in school, but she had a quick and easy time with the assignment. I sat there kind of paralyzed and excited at the same time. I didn't know what exactly to do next, but I was glad to finally see...

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Then I dreamt that I worked in a building across from another building. I'm not sure what the business was, just that it felt comfortable, that I liked my coworkers and that there was a pleasant feel. I saw things happening across the way at the other building and I didn't understand it all. I wanted to see more. I walked over and saw that their front door wasn't locked. I walked in. I found I was able to walk through the whole place without them knowing I was there. There were just a few women that worked there. I thought it was a little dangerous that anyone could walk in and they were not even curious. I walked to the back. I felt like there had to be some trick door or something in the back. There was just  stairwell. It looked like it went down, but I'm not sure to where. I let them know how easy it was to do this and maybe they might want to at least lock the front door. They then showed me that their building was connected to an office supply store. It was large like a warehouse. I thought it looked like fun.