interesting dreams
First one has to do a with a girl
the second is a bit of a reflection on my life
The Girl
So we (Karsten, Chris, my friend Nancy, and i) are walking down Fox Mill Rd. Only its not Fox Mill rd, it is now a dirt path. let me explain more: the road had become overwhelmed with plants and trees to point where that is all you saw. the DOT didnt think about that when adding new plants to make the world seem more natural i guess...anyways, the plants couldnt be controlled and the plants and trees kept on growing. Soon it became a road that nobody drove on anymore and collected dust and dirt...it collected so much that the road itself seemed elevated about 3 ft above everything else. So there was the two lane dirt road with about a 3ft elevation and we're all walking down it for some reason. Karsten and Chris have the lead and are talking about different plants and animals. Nancy and i are in the back listening and im translating what theyre saying to her cause she's never met them before and theyre using slang and examples from their past to talk about how things grow out there.
the point of climax at the dream was when Nancy fell. She fell off the road into a pile of brown and green leaves. Seconds later there were these million little green things crawling toward her and in an instant, they were all over her eating her. she only screamed for a second because she then grew a chestnut shell around her and knocked off the little fuckers. i helped her up and then Karsten and Chris were talking about what those things do. they wait for prey, surround it, cover it, and transport it somewhere to be eaten. She was lucky to grow the shell cause normally once they surround you, youre fucked. i think they were called Pod peas or something...
keep in mind this is a dream. just a messed up dream where i almost watched someone who was on my mind get eaten alive
The Reflection
So im on this high adventure boy scout trip in the Bahamas or Jamaica. The activity we paid almost $6000 for was Scuba Diving. we were downthere for about 2 weeks and the first week was basically training and rescue scenarios should we be bleeding in open water, stranded, or a storm comes or whatever. it was crazy. we spent the two weeks in this 2 story house with a huge basement. The boys (all i can remember are Trip, his brother Joe, and Simon) are all staying in the basement of this house and are allowed to do what we want considering we kind of renting it. then its the last day and three of decide to do something crazy. three of us (Trip, Simon, and me) grabbed our gear, some emergency equipment, and went out for a dive in at like 3 in the morning...when light was just starting to show. We checked the forecast, sunny allllll day and not a chance of rain or a storm in the near or far future according to the weather forecaster. We get to our spot, we're going to explore that legend we heard about...the sunken battleship with authentic wartime material in there (weapons or documents...that kind of thing).
We get into the water and see a shark...we freeze like we should and the shark goes away. we wait a few minutes and dive. it was really quite amazing what we saw. the clear blue water suddenly getting darker and darker as we go down, yet we can still see some sunlight. we get to the pitch dark and see the ship, but then the water does something to us...it tosses us around. we just start going left and right, up and down and its all sporatic. i turn on my flashlight to see where the others are..i see Trip but not Simon so i panic a little. then the water stops...i get Trip and climb to the surface with our flashlights lit. Only problem is...we get up the surface and its still pitch black, it was hard to see even with the flashlights.
then the storm hit. lightning, thunder, gushing winds, and of course the water doing crazy stuff in the wind. I get the raft baggie out(its an inflatable raft that stays compressed until you pull on this cord...then it inflates and floats) but the raft bag has something on it, an index card: it has Trips dental records on it and a message from his mom saying she loves him. and best of all, no raft. so we swim for what we think is the right direction talking about Simon and if he's safe. Then Trip remembers he brought an extra raft just in case. So he pulled the cord and the raft inflated but when that happened i lost the card and cursed at Trip cause he was supposed to make sure its safe to do that first. So i go diving looking for it. I see it falling very fast to the pitch black, yet its still within reasonable distance to grab. So i go after it and i lose it...just then i see all these floating things. Balls? anchors? it was leaking air, then i saw what they were attached to: the battleship. i freak out, swim back up, tell trip to move otherwise he'll get hit. we wait, and then we see the ship. instead of the modern ships made of steel, this was wooden and in beautiful condition. then out of this ship we heard an alarm, then we see a cage open up and we look inside. Wonderful, Great White sharks, 5 of them get dropped into the water. Trip and i get into the raft and the sharks circle us.
im...a little tense and mad at Trip, thanks to him whoever finds us will never be able to identify us cause he couldn't keep his cool for 5 seconds. So were wating in the raft and the shark fins disappear...we take our gear off, except the wet suits, and paddle over to the ship. we get on, then next thing i know were back in the house with everyone celebrating. i dont know why, we lost Simon, they must not have heard. Then Simon appears in a towel just out of the shower and his face is covered in what i thought was shaving cream, but infact it was Elmer's Glue...he put it on as an after shave for reason. i ask him what happend and he said he lost sight of us and came back. which is protocol according to the trip. Trip's ok, Simon's ok, and im ok. we have a huge dinner and we (Trip and i) tell them about the ship. we see everyone and then something weird happens.
I flashback to the events that happened: us swimming to the ship, the water tossing us, the storm above us, and the ship raising. and whats weird(er) about this dream, i saw the same events while they were happening in third person view. i saw us in the water, then the sky getting progessively darker while the storm approachs. i see the water bouncing around and a single head (simon) pop out of the water then swim away. and i then i saw Trip's mom take the raft out of the baggie and put in this dental records instead. She was worried and crying..i cant blame her really, she thought her oldest son was about to die.
while i was seeing all of this, they never saw me. i was looking down in it and just ...watching. right after experiencing it. then i woke up later.
how this applies my life? i often get hung up on the little things. theni tend to hold a grudge. and this dream was a perfect example of that and how i make too big of a deal out of it. i need to relax and just take things a lot easier than i have been. secondly..i always wanted to go Scuba Diving and in the Bahamas or something. and finding an old wartime material ship thats wooden...what guy wouldnt want to find that?