This was a first for me.
I dreamed I was a kid again, maybe 7 or 8 or so, and I was visiting a relative with a number of kids.
The relative was a real stickler for protocol. At meals, all the kids would be at the kid's table with the plates and place settings all perfectly set in front of us. We had to sit there at attention until we were given permission to eat and we would not get permission to eat until everyone was completely behaved and sitting just right. And the adults got permission to eat at the same time. For the woman of the house, imagine her as a cross between Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and a drill seargeant.
So when we sat down to eat a dinner of fried chicken and I had a pair of pliers in my hands and couldn't sit there at attention with the pliers in my hand, so I put them on the table to the right of my spoon which was to the right of the plate (from left to right: napkin, fork, plate, knife, spoon, pliers). All the other kids saw it and were doing everything they could to keep from bursting out into laughter and the woman was getting madder and madder and refused to let us eat while it was there but there was no acceptable procedure to acknowledge that it was there and tell me to move it. So we sat there like that for some time.
Finally I couldn't stand it any more and burst out laughing, not only in the dream, but also while asleep. I burst out laughing in my sleep and woke myself up from it.