Giant mall, Trolls, and Dolphins

I was in a large building with D. It was perhaps five stories - there was an entire mall on one story, a train station on another, a sort of aquarium on the top floor. Each floor was massive, and everyone was speaking French. We went up to the aquarium to look for toys. We wound up on a moving walkway underwater, though we could breath. Just above our heads, so close that I felt like ducking, swam two hammerhead sharks. The water was green and sort of murky. I did not feel comfortable there, with the sharks brushing against my head. There weren't any good toys on the shelves either - just ugly old legos and building sets.

We tried to catch a train, but missed the little tram that ran from place to place in the building (which was starting to look like the inside of a mountain). We kept trying to find a place. At one point, we were being escorted by hairy orc/troll creatures, who were also trying to find a way out. There was some sort of fight about to happen? The monsters were not interested in being mean - they were just trying to go about being monsters.

I wound up outside - sort of - and there was a great expanse of water in front of me. In the distance, I could see great disturbance in the water, spreading out like a circle. I knew there were dolphins coming, and I called for everyone to come and see. People weren't as interested as I, so I ran to watch. There were hundreds of dolphins, leaping out as the tide went through. The dream flashed all around, to the dolphins and to different points of view of the water - to lock systems and tidal pools and a channel made of concrete. The dolphins were swimming closer to the cliff I was now on, and I ran to go and watch them swim below me.

As I ran, I thought there would be a railing (I was on bleachers now), but I realized as I got to the end there was no railing, just a straight drop down hundreds of feet to the rocks below. I caught myself just at the end and did not go over, but I was breathless because I thought I would fall. A man standing next to me nodded, as though he had done the same thing. I wondered why they'd build such an unsafe thing by a sheer cliff face. There were giant blue waves now, swelling high and crashing into the cliffs. The dolphins had moved on, and so I watched the giant waves breaking.

The only other thing I remember was being in a laboratory. There were dolphins swimming by, but the water was brown and sort of stagnant, and the dolphins were not moving with much energy. In a brightly lit room I found a strange sort of monkey monster on a table, shaking vials and wearing a coat. It had arms and legs as thin as a spiders, and its hands were skeleton and oversized for its body. It looked at me and started talking to me, but I can't remember what we talked about. I think it wanted me to free him from something, or to free some other animals (maybe those trolls from earlier)....


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I was giddy in the dream about the dolphins. This is true to real life - I was whale watching and almost fell overboard because I was so excited by watching the dolphins jump  alongside the boat.

Chivalrous Date at Chimney Rock

I was in the mountains - it was dry and stony like the desert. I was on a sort of perch, trying to climb down. A man showed up in armor - to be more precise, it was Sir Jorah Mormont from the Game of Thrones series (played by Iain Glen). He agreed to help me down from the rocks. My Grandma was there, nearby, and she commented on how nice this knight was. Then my Mom was there, and she agreed, suggesting that this was the sort of man I should marry. I was surprised that they were both so smitten, but I stayed with the knight for the rest of the dream.

Eventually we wound up at Chimney Rock - except it too was in the desert and not surrounded by grasslands.  There was a tour there - a bunch of school kids swarmed around the rock and the caverns which ran below it. There was a really old soda machine in the caverns under the rock - the whole place felt really old. The knight held my hand and kept the kids from bumping into me.

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This dream had a lot of tactile detail - the dryness of the rocks in particular. The overall feeling was one of safety - I felt incredibly safe in the knight's company. Very secure. I also seem to recall feeling amused that my mother and grandmother wanted me to be with someone who was clearly much, much older than I was.

I am not up to date on the Song of Ice and Fire series - but I've been led to believe that Ser Jorah's story is not a pleasant one. Pity, because he was super polite in my dream.

Strength and Otters

This dream is couple of weeks old, but here:


I was driving through a country scene. There was a bridge - concrete - over a river. I was driving a red station wagon. Below me, I saw some otters playing in the water. I thought it would be cool to swim with them, and then the bridge broke/my car was dangling backwards over the edge. I was frightened as I fell to the river. I climbed out of the car and the otters were there. I felt extremely put out about my car. I did swim around with the otters, but I was annoyed again that the otters seemed smug about my accident - like they knew they were the cause.

Then I lifted the car of of the water by its front bumper and carried it up a nearby set of utility steps, also made of concrete. At the top of the hill was an old town. My car was dripping water and had muck all over it.

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The reason I remember this dream is because I thought it was strange that I was able to simply lift my car all by myself. I don't think I've ever been super strong in my dreams before.

Last night I had a crazy series of mini dreams - none of which I remember unfortunately. I've actually had several good dreams over the past few days, but I cannot remember them. Isn't that the worst?

Part of me thinks that the reason I can't is that I've been meaning to put this otter dream down on this blog and haven't. Perhaps holding on to dreams takes a lot more energy and space that we think, which is why it's hard to remember several dreams at once?