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I dreamed I was a tomboyish little girl, whose father was trying to force her to become a waitress at a very posh country club by the ocean where he was a member. I got angry when he told me this, and tried to escape on my bicycle, on which I was amazingly adept -- I could almost fly on it, ride sideways on walls, jump barriers, etc. Quite the little stunt woman on a bicycle. But the winding roads I took to try to get away from the club and its snobby rich people all seemed to lead me into dead ends or into ditches full of dead leaves and trash.
As night fell, I found myself on a road that led back up to the club, to a high, steep sand dune which overlooked the ocean. I lept off of my bike and hurled myself down the sand dune into the water -- it was almost a cliff, and it was high tide, so the waves were striking right at the edge of the dune -- but I seemed to be physically fearless in the dream.
The pull of the waves began to carry me away from shore, and orange-and-white fish that looked a bit like koi swam up to me and began to nudge at my stomach with their noses. It tickled. They pushed me further and further out to sea, and I wondered if I was going to be eaten or drowned, but somehow wasn't afraid. More animals began to swim up, and many of them seemed to be of the same kind... I called them 'porpoises' in my dream, but they were oddly scaled and spined, and really looked nothing like porpoises.... Imagine a sort of cross between a manatee and a pangolin. That's what these creatures looked like.
The largest of them, who seemed to be the king of the pack, made friends with me. After we had travelled a long distance, he sent the fish away, and I put my arms around his neck. He and the other 'porpoises' carried me to a strange sort of underwater palace... except palace is misleading, it was more like a collection of rooms cobbled together from many different buildings, and all the doorways seemed to be too small, somehow, so I had to squeeze through to follow them.
One of the king porpoises' underporpoises -- one I didn't care for very much, he was rather aggressive -- led me to a bathroom. I was told to pee, and left alone. I couldn't. He came back, and told me to drink several cups of something that was like water but wasn't, and then I could finally obey.
He and some other underporpoises led me back out into a sort of auditorium, where a huge crowd of the creatures waited for me. They were all chattering and laughing, and some of them cheered when they saw me. A huge bunch of little baby porpoises dashed up and began noising at my legs and clinging to my arms... And then I lifted my arms, and realized they were turning into webbed paws, my lower body was shrinking and rounding out, my skin was darkening and becoming spiny and furry. I had begun to turn into one of them. Somehow I knew that I had been chosen to be the new Queen Porpoise. I felt rather resentful about not being given a choice in the matter. I wished the likeable king would come back and explain himself.
The babies were still nosing at me and chattering, and suddenly I got it into my head that perhaps I was pregnant.
End of dream.
....Hee. Weird one.