Deep sea dream...
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 3:38 pm
All my recent talks on this forum made me think of one specific dream I made this year... It might have been a few months back.
As you may know already, I am dead scared of water. I like the sea, but only from a safe distance, or when it's low and we can walk on the foreshore. Just google "thalassophobia", I think it might just be that...
Well, here's my dream. I was near a small fishing village on the beach, but I couldn't see the ocean anywhere. It was just wet rocks, algae and barnacles as far as the eye could see. In France, we call it the "estran".
Strangely, I felt attracted. I just needed to catch a glimpse the water at the end. So I started walking. I walked for some time, and the farther I went from the coast, the more slippery it got. I fell several times in the algae, I felt like I was slowly sinking in the sludge. I was starting to be covered in kelp, so much so that I couldn't tell it from my own skin anymore. Finally, my head sunk.
When I opened my eyes again, the sea had come up. The surface was hundreds of meters above, yet I could breathe normally. All around me, the deep sea lived. There were fishes, shells, more kelp... It was dark, but I didn't feel threatened. In real life, I would have fainted right there, I know I would have. But there I was, a small living thing between gigantic, sunken monuments that kinda looked like pyramids. When I tried to swim, I realized I was not myself anymore. I was not even human-like, I was some sort of black, mossy squid, with a luminescent head. I just swam around for a while. There were a few others like me, but they were too far away to reach, and they didn't seem to acknowledge me.
But then, I saw some sort of pale light in the dark. Near a collapsed bridge was a beautiful woman, she was radiating with an attractive glow. She looked like she was wearing a large dress, but I realized it was all just part of her membranous body. She was like a mermaid, only her bottom was like the bell of a jellyfish. She smiled at me, and already I felt small.
There was something so motherly about her. She asked me how I got here, but she wasn't expecting an answer. Instead, she made me human again, and I felt even smaller. I tried to come to her, but she gently warned me about not touching her many slim tentacles, so I wouldn't get hurt. Then, I felt lifted like a baby, and she told me a few words I can't seem to remember. Something about birth, or "coming back"...
The last thing I saw was a modern city from the sky. Maybe my own. Then it all stopped. I woke up feeling confused.
Today, I get chills when I try to picture this place again. All this water around me, and the things lurking in it... but I know it felt alright when I was there. This lady... she helped me like she would've helped a lost child. I liked her, I felt like I wanted to be near her.
Could this be that I actually met someone in my sleep...?
As you may know already, I am dead scared of water. I like the sea, but only from a safe distance, or when it's low and we can walk on the foreshore. Just google "thalassophobia", I think it might just be that...
Well, here's my dream. I was near a small fishing village on the beach, but I couldn't see the ocean anywhere. It was just wet rocks, algae and barnacles as far as the eye could see. In France, we call it the "estran".
Strangely, I felt attracted. I just needed to catch a glimpse the water at the end. So I started walking. I walked for some time, and the farther I went from the coast, the more slippery it got. I fell several times in the algae, I felt like I was slowly sinking in the sludge. I was starting to be covered in kelp, so much so that I couldn't tell it from my own skin anymore. Finally, my head sunk.
When I opened my eyes again, the sea had come up. The surface was hundreds of meters above, yet I could breathe normally. All around me, the deep sea lived. There were fishes, shells, more kelp... It was dark, but I didn't feel threatened. In real life, I would have fainted right there, I know I would have. But there I was, a small living thing between gigantic, sunken monuments that kinda looked like pyramids. When I tried to swim, I realized I was not myself anymore. I was not even human-like, I was some sort of black, mossy squid, with a luminescent head. I just swam around for a while. There were a few others like me, but they were too far away to reach, and they didn't seem to acknowledge me.
But then, I saw some sort of pale light in the dark. Near a collapsed bridge was a beautiful woman, she was radiating with an attractive glow. She looked like she was wearing a large dress, but I realized it was all just part of her membranous body. She was like a mermaid, only her bottom was like the bell of a jellyfish. She smiled at me, and already I felt small.
There was something so motherly about her. She asked me how I got here, but she wasn't expecting an answer. Instead, she made me human again, and I felt even smaller. I tried to come to her, but she gently warned me about not touching her many slim tentacles, so I wouldn't get hurt. Then, I felt lifted like a baby, and she told me a few words I can't seem to remember. Something about birth, or "coming back"...
The last thing I saw was a modern city from the sky. Maybe my own. Then it all stopped. I woke up feeling confused.
Today, I get chills when I try to picture this place again. All this water around me, and the things lurking in it... but I know it felt alright when I was there. This lady... she helped me like she would've helped a lost child. I liked her, I felt like I wanted to be near her.
Could this be that I actually met someone in my sleep...?