Friday, September 03, 2010
A little W.E.I.R.D.
Sometimes, things get a little too W.E.I.R.D.
Yeap folks, it's another sessions of Wildly Erratic and Intensely Random Dreams!
This dream happened a few nights ago and I'm positive the only reason I still remember it is because it involves a car and elephants.
I had another dream before this elephant one. I was taking a trip to a city via a train. It was somewhat LRT-ish but being a dream, the train carriage was huge with more than enough room for everyone. I had a friend with me, but I can't remember who. What I do remember is scolding my friend for sitting so far away from me in said train.
Even in my dreams, I have abandonment issues.
I must have woken up and fell back to sleep again because the dream took a different turn and I found myself talking to a group of people who were telling me what to do in an emergency. A very specific type of emergency - what to do when your car is submerged underwater.
The instructions given seemed pretty simple and foolproof - hold your breath, wind down/kick the windows of the car and swim out. As I'm trying to analyse my dream now, I don't know if I should be worried or not that what my subsconscious tries to pass off as survival skills can be read from the back of a cereal box.
With a head full of trust and no inhibitions, I got into a car with the same group of strangers and we drove off (I definitely don't like to drive in dreams and real life). Where we were heading, no one seemed to be telling.
After getting a lesson on what to do when a car is submerged underwater, take a gamble as to what happened next.
Of course, the car suddenly swerved violently, headed straight for a low red brick wall at full speed. We crashed and tipped over the low red brick wall right in to an exceptionally deep pond. Murky pond water immediately started filling up the car and within seconds, it was completely submerged.
I'd like to take a moment to congratulate my dream self on remembering exactly what I was trained to do in such an emergency and keep a calm head. Is this an indication of my fight-or-flee tendencies?
Anyway, like it was something that happened every other day to me, I calmly held my breath, kicked out the windows of the car and swam up to the surface. I might be a little selfish too because I don't think I bothered to find out what happened to the rest of the people who were in the car with me. Gotta always look out for #1 ;)
As I made my way up to the surface, something huge swam past me. It was an elephant. What the..???
That may have made me panic a little (I don't break a sweat in a car crash but an underwater pachyderm sends my spider senses tingling. Priorities!) so I swam up faster and finally reached the water's surface.
What I thought was a random pond turned out to be a pool in an elephant enclosure in the zoo. Was that where the car was headed to? The zoo?
As I clambered out of the pool soaking wet and spitting out bits of pond weed, an elephant surfaced out of the pool right behind me and glared at me as though I'd interrupted it's morning swim.
I then nonchalantly walked over to the nearest tap and washed myself clean.
Erm.. I'm not even going to try deciphering this one.
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