This setting seemed to be a medieval one. Mention was made about some form of decorative object. Someone was saying that one had to distinguish between the regular kind of object, which was somehow invented in the metal, as opposed to those that were one consistent type of metal throughout. The object referred to seemed to be some kind of cuff link. Then other types of insignia were shown to me, and I was having some difficulty in distinguishing between them.  Then there was a group of armed knights who were sitting upon horses and I was standing beside them. It seemed as if I knew one of the knights more than the others. He was explaining something to me about the difference, indicators of knighthood accomplishment, but the differences seemed rather subtle to me. Finally I went up to this one particular knight, who had been pointed out to me as a first class knight, and asked him to show me how this was inscribed in his medallion or insignia. I walked away from the group with him, and had my hand circled around his waist. I said, "What did you do to earn your first class status?" He said that he had decided to run for some office that required some kind of reform work to be carried out. I then asked him, "Was it that he received the award for having decided to run for this office or whether because he had successfully competed in this contest?" I believe he said, "It was because he actually was the winner in this election or contest."  Then there was a demonstration of some sort of horsemanship, and it was pointed out that if one were to ride along on the horse and tip their lance into the ground that this was considered poor form. That if one were to deliberately do so it meant that they disagreed with the others. It seemed as if two of the characters now involved were King Arthur and Prince Valiant. King Arthur in particular did seem to even like the idea that one would do this on any occasion. Then it seemed as if, somehow, it was known that one of the other knights was Alita (who was Prince Valiant's wife). She was also wearing a knight's outfit, and it seemed as if some vote was about to be made. Each of these knights, whose identity was to be kept anonymous, was to ride across and indicate by their behavior whether they agreed with this vote or not. If one were to tip the lance into the ground, then this meant that he disagreed. It seemed to be understood that Alita was not in favor of this particular thing that was about to be voted on. She had a somewhat different looking costume than the others, and also seemed to have a broken and splintered lance.  The rest of the knights were down at one end of this field and Alita was crossing the field to join them at the far end. As she rode across, someone was saying something about she would have to vote as she felt and that this would be all right because supposedly the identity of the disagreeing knights was anonymous.  Then the scene shifted to a desert and recall for this part is very fuzzy. It had just started before I was awakened. It seemed I was going to go out on this desert for a week or so, and I was either to be killed by myself or someone else, or else I was to be found by someone. But it seems as if it were to be some sort of hunting situation in which I was to be the quarry.