Sharks and Cliffs

Dreams are so interesting. At least mine are, mainly because I remember them in vivid detail many times. An entire world exists within my mind. A place I revisit time and time again. The locations I revisit in my dreams are an amalgamation of all the places I have been with embellishments here and there.

One of the locations in my dream are red cliffs similar to what you would find in Utah around Zion Natl Park. Last night is a good example of this locale. It was a little like the Grand Canyon as well. I took my students for a field trip or something. The crazy thing about this particular dream was it mixed two other common elements of my dreams. One was another location in my dream world which is dock area. The other is needing a bathroom and the toilet is in a odd or precarious area.

In the dock area houses line the left side and there is a boardwalk on the right. Sometimes there is a beach, other times buildings. The right side always appears different, but it is the same place. Last night the dock scene was a high wall which went straight into the water many feet below the water's surface. As I looked down into the water I could see the shadow of a shark. I heard a chef's voice behind me say, "It is Gorman Gourmet, the shark."

Apparently, this was supposed to be familiar and exciting. I think the shark could talk. Part of the dream I was swimming with the Great White and other moments I was standing on the wall looking down and still other times I was in a raft with the students who were at the cliffs with me.

Back to the toilet. I needed to go to the restroom in my dream and the only bathroom was practically hanging off a cliff! I was calm in the dream, which is unusual, but must mean I have conquered some kind of anxiety in reality. (which is true) From this scene I was carried to the dock scene.

I am not sure what it all means, but it is always fun nonetheless.