The Great Flood

Last night's dream had me in some post apocalyptic world, well mid-apocalyptic really. (It could be inspired by the fact that I saw 2012 last week.) I think a big flood was happeneing but not sure if it was caused by something else - like earthquakes or tsumanis or something.

Anyway, my friends and I were trying to get away or get to safety and I remember running through this building that had all these stair cases and ladders and tiny crawl spaces that basically caused a maze we had to navigate. We have to get to the top of the building, and then we somehow got into a huge canoe with about twenty people (I think it might have been an inflatable canoe too). So we are getting ready to go down this hill (or maybe it was a leaning building) and we see this big ark (you know, a really big boat). Also, there is a bunch of water at the bottom of the hill (basically everything is flooded). So the plan is that the canoe will stop by the ark so that my friends (J & A) and I can get into the ark. For some reason we are special because the other people on the canoe are not supposed to get on the ark.

So then the canoe gets going really fast sliding down this hill and doesn't stop at the arc. J, A, and I are yelling "Hey we're supposed to stop!" So then the canoe plunges into the water. Since the canoe is over capacity, some people (including me) are hanging off the edges of the canoe into the water. That's when we notice that there are crocdiles in the water and they are getting close. So then there is a big scene where we are fighting off the crocs and trying to get into the canoe. We are punching the crocs on the tops of their snouts, and then everyone is laying on top of each other in the canoe. I think some people got eaten, but not me or my friends.

So then later we are on a beach. J & I are running along the beach trying to get somewhere. She, of course, can run faster than me. She is running ahead of me with no regard to the fact that I am falling behind. What a jerk!

We finally arrive at the place we were going, and there are a bunch of other survivors there. They are all waiting in line to take a shower. The line for the men's shower is a bunch of naked guys in line in water. So they are all treading water in a line, waiting.

So, I walk around a little bit and see some women waiting in line and then I hear a loud speaker say something that ends with them calling my name. So I start asking everyone around me what the announcement had said. since the only part I caught was my name. I think they said I am supposed to go somewhere to contact someone - like maybe my family is looking for me. But I don't know where to go or exactly what they said. Then I woke up.

Shrunk

In this dream, one of my bosses and I were tiny (like in Honey I Shrunk the Kids). We were standing on a leaning chain link fence (so it was like we were on the side of a big chain link hill to us). So, for us, the spaces between the links in the chain were about the length of three steps. So we had to take really big steps to get from one chain to the next and not fall through.

So we are trying to carry cherries up or down this chain link fence, and they are really heavy. They were about 4 times the size of my head. My boss (who is a man in his forties) could carry one at a time, but it was not easy. So I think he tried to hand me one, and I was pulling it by the stem, and trying to pull the cherry part up to me so I could grab it. But it was so heavy that I couldn't even move it.

That's all I remember.

Swimming

Last night's dream started with me, my sister, and friend AN swimming in some long (think marathon) race. The three of us were on a team, so we were swimming together in the ocean or a huge lake or something. I don't remember wearing scuba or snorkeling gear, but I do remember that we were swimming for long periods of time underwater.

So after a while of this swimming, the water is all filled with lots of algae and moss and the water is greenish. I don't remember a lot of details, but eventually we got out of the water and went into a restaurant or something. My friend, SG, was there with Leonardo DeCaprio. So I was talking to Leo, because of course I knew him really well.

That's all I remember.

Missing Child

Last night, I had a pretty strange dream because in it I had a kid.
So my kid was grade school aged, and away on a school trip which was supposed to take a few days. I got a letter in the mail from the school telling me my kid was DEAD! So I was really upset for a couple of days, but then Mike was like "Do we know for sure that they are right? Maybe they made a mistake." That thought had never occurred to me in all my grief, I guess.

But then we got a letter in the mail from a funeral home (I think) saying that the suggested tiem for our kid's funeral was Thursday at 11:08am (I think). That's weird, I don't think funeral homes just send you a letter with a suggested time. So then we were thinking that we really should look further into this to see if the school was really right. And, BTW, the field trip hadn't come back yet by this time.

So then the point of view in the dream shifts and I am not looking from my own point of view. Instead I am just like watching a movie, and I see my kid - who looks like Dakota Fanning when she was younger. So she is wearing a school uniform and standing in front of a full size poster of her friend who is also in the school uniform. So she stands with the poster and has someone take a picture so it looks like the two girls were actually standing together when the picture was taken, and she says something like "They will think we were together in this picture."

And that's the end of the dream...

Black Shoes

A couple nights ago I had a dream that I went to a bar or show or something wearing black slip on shoes. Actually I was weraing two pairs of these shoes. One smaller inside another bigger pair. But I seemed to have forgotten that later on.

Anyway, during the show or whatever I took my shoes off, just as everyone else had taken their shoes off. So I go to put my shoes back on and find that thye are way too big - so I realize I have on someone else's shoes. By this time almost everyone else is gone. So I start looking around and there are tons and tons of black shoes all over the floor. And I am upset because someone took my shoes instead of their own, and I can't find my shoes.

During the dream, it didn't occur to me; but now I am wondering where all those people went without taking their shoes.