Well, that was weird

Rico says he was just awakened (fortunately) from a very weird, hyper-realistic dream. The first clue, of course, should have been that Rico was driving (not in more than six years), and in his old Ford Explorer (long since sold to his friend Kelley) with some unknown (because unseen; this was a dream, after all) passengers, when there was a terrible van/school bus accident in the left lane, complete with (Rico did say this was vivid, sorry) severed torsos of young women in the van... (And, if you think that's rare, Google 'school bus accident' and see how many photos like the one above turn up.)
Then it got really weird. Rico was, for some reason, driving in what looked like North Carolina (flat, green, farmland, ramshackle houses), but when he pulled out his (well, not his, but some kinda smartphone) cell phone, Rico couldn't get 911 to work. When it finally did, he got a recording, not of a dispatcher (though there were already fire trucks arriving on-scene), but of 'Greg, Julie's husband' (both unknown to Rico), who proceeded to leave the longest-winded message since Rico's friend Malloy...
Finally giving up and getting out of the vehicle, Rico found a large crowd of on-lookers, but, by the time he finally found someone in authority, Rico's ladyfriend had turned on her radio, thus awakening him from all that and letting him get on with what will be, by comparison, a much more normal day...