Iron Man Sunset

Extremely fragmented dream - because I woke up awkwardly (loud noises):

- Sunset over a clear water pond. Nephew was with me, and I told him to that the catfish came out when the sun went down. Then there were catfish in the water - giant polka dotted catfish. By that I mean they were pink and peach colored, with dark spots on them. The males were pinky-peach, the females had spots. One got caught on a hook by accident, and was pulled up from the water. It was taller than me, and a man gingerly removed it from the hook device and put it back in the water.

-I was in a car, watching a semi. The semi's back tires went off the road, and I thought the lady driver would recover, but then the whole back end went off the road and the truck flipped over. We were on Hwy 231, by a Walmart, except the whole road was raised, like a highway ramp. Her truck was filled with groceries...

-Robert Downy Jr. as Tony Stark (very hazy here). I think there was some sort of chase, or was he avoiding people? An apartment and a silver car. For some reason, I think he had a bag of onions in the front seat.

Fishing

Ah, another dream about my favorite element: water

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Daytime. I was fishing on a pier. Next to me were two men in a rickety row boat. There was another little girl on the pier next to me, and maybe another man. I could see the shadows of fish in the water. The lake was big, but I could see the trees that made up its borders. The water was bright blue green, like the shallow waters of the Caribbean. Except it wasn't clear - it was cloudy.

Suddenly, I found myself swimming on the far side of the lake. The water was cold and murky brown. "In them waters there is where you can catch alligator, catfish..." One of the men in the rowboat was saying. I did not feel like eating alligator or catfish, so I swam back the pier, and the warm green water. The man continued listing fish as I crossed through different patches of the lake. I got to the pier and pulled myself up. I could feel fish brushing against my skin.

I grabbed a fishing pole, except the pole was snapped in the middle. I tried to cast, and threw a long cast to the far shore of the lake. I felt a tug, and tried to reel in the fish, but my line got tangled with one of the rowboat men's lines. We tugged together, and I knew that I had lost my fish. The man was really excited for some reason. We tugged and reeled, and finally we pulled out a large trophy. It was his lost trophy.

"Great," I said. "I love fishing for other people's prizes."

"Yours is out there too," said someone. And I could see the top of my trophy sticking out of the water, lodged I guess in the mud of the lake. I started to cast again....

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I did not recognize anyone in this dream. They all seemed like rural strangers, friendly in a rural way.

Small dream

I have only one sentence for this dream:


I was Sacajawea, and I was rollerskating.


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There - psycho-analyze that!

Rube Goldberg dance

Sigh - I really could use a dream that wasn't so overtly weird...

Okay, so I was in three theater productions at once. All of them were on these tiny little stages. Each theater piece followed the other, and each was set up like some sort of crazy rube goldberg device. In one I had to jump up the outline of hill, except the outline was made with buckets of water. So I had to jump up buckets of water, then jump down them. There were metal cymbals, pinwheels, and champagne glasses. I had to duck around and spin. It was all very hectic. Finally, I landed, and there was applause. Everything shifted, and the next show started. The second show had lots of little houses on hills, and I was supposed to...I think I was supposed to dance around them (but it's hazy now and I can't remember). It was like being on a conveyor belt, and having to act different for each scene piece.

I remember spotlights, and cheering - it was theatrical, and though I was getting tired of putting on the shows, it never occurred to me to stop acting.