Singing

I was standing in a gymnasium with a bunch of other people, all of us standing in rows. At the front was a mean man sitting on a throne (with red velvet cushioning) on a 4' x 8' section of staging. Everyone had been forced to take a picture of him (sitting on the throne) and make it into an 8" x 10" framed picture. We had to pair up, move over a couple feet to the right from everyone else, & do a "song and dance" number and present it to him. I even remember some of the song. When it came time for my partner & I to do it, we got as far as

"We made,
this picture,
of you.
We hope,
you like it,
because we do..."

Then, not only could we not remember the rest of the song, we couldn't get our dance steps right. So we gave up and got back into our places.

The man asked why we stopped. We explained that we knew that even the tiniest mistake would cause points to be taken off our final score. Since we did so poorly we saw no point in continuing. Some of the other people we watched were so much better, pretty much perfect. He was telling us that he hadn't seen one performance that he thought was utterly perfect & that we should try again.

I started thinking it had to be one of the dumbest dreams I have had yet, so I woke myself up.