Friday, December 24, 2010

Dream; underwater + Jeanine

HMMMM I'M NOT TOO SURE ABOUT THE ORDER IN WHICH THINGS HAPPENED. But here we go-

Jeanine and I had decided to embark on an adventure to this underwater...theme park. Not REALLY a theme park but...I don't know how else to describe it. To get there, we went on highway 24 and then to the highway to San Francisco, BUT WE WENT VIA INNER TUBE. The highway was much more narrow and was basically a slide with water running down it (I think it was raining too). At first it was easy going, but it got REALLY FAST (just like that crazy waterslide at Waterworld that burned all our backs LOL). I could feel my stomach dropping at each dip and I actually woke up at this point because of the falling sensation (I kicked my legs up irl haha). Fell back asleep and it jumped to the theme park, which was in a fictional part of SF, but I knew it was in SF. It was nighttime when we reached it; the streets were shining and reflecting back the city lights, and there was a light fog (the tall theme-park building (looked like a transparent skyscraper) was right on the water's edge). From outside, you could see the HUGE aquarium inside-I think this was heavily influenced by that one tumblr picture here We went in and went into the (really plain) changing rooms. We went to the door that lead to the "park" (the door was on the ceiling...) and we were standing there for awhile wondering where to leave our clothes and things (I remember worrying becauset I couldn't bring my ipad with me into the water LOL). An elderly lady with one of those flower-swim caps talked to us for a bit ("I've been doing this every day for the past 40 years! Just kick the sharks in the face") and then she went up and away through the air and outside. But the outside was...underwater...like, really really deep underwater. There was a cable with christmas lights attached to it (I thought of bokeh instantly HAHA) that was supposed to guide us to the top (so I guess the main attraction was just to follow the cable upwards and get to the surface?). We finally got the guts to go through the door and we started swimming towards the top. THERE WERE SHARKS. So many sharks that we couldn't go upwards without scraping against them (and it really really hurt). At one point, we wanted to turn back because the surface was so far away, but the door back was gone (and the christmas light cable was just floating around with no anchor). We finally reached the surface (looked like what the Bahamas look like in commercials), but when we looked at each other, we had both turned into old ladies HAHAHAA. With flower swim caps.

Don't remember the rest!

Oh yes, and all through this dream, I could hear indistinct murmuring in the background. It may have been my family talking. This dream happened...pretty late in my sleep cycle...It was already bright outside when I woke up halfway through it.

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