The Ocean of My Dream World

Last night I traveled the ocean of my dream world.

I was on a giant ocean liner or ferry of some kind. There were many levels. It was like a hotel. I was exploring one of the decks with closed in windows and watching the waves come up and one big wave came towards us and crashed on the prow. I commented to my companions, "These waves are getting bigger and bigger. We might get a wave that will drown us." I saw a big wave coming and it was so strong and tall. It hit the window we were looking at and broke through it and water started to fill the level we were on. I ran up a twisting spiral staircase as the water chased my feet and kept going and going and going until I got to the very top of the boat which was somehow like a lawn of an island and the water washed over the lawn and we stood on a tiny dry patch and it took a very long time at sea for the water to go down and then for us to finally find land again.

When we got back to land, everyone on the ship had trouble reintegrating into society because they had had such a long shared, difficult experience. No one understood us. After a long, tumultuous, and lonely time trying to figure out how to exist in this new world, my good friends decided to take jobs on the ship and go back out to sea again. There was a big festival parade to celebrate the return of this ship back to the sea and the whole community came out with colored dragons and floats and flags and confetti and marching bands to see the ship off. I knew then that the ship was the only place I could belong. This time the seas were again tumultuous and there was a new captain who was confident he could ride the waves like climbing up mountains instead of allowing the waves to capsize us. He was narrating our progress on the loudspeaker. I went to the highest part of the ship and straddled a railing and watched out ahead of me as the ship climbed the highest wave I've ever seen. The captain said "Okay, we're really riding it now. We're trying." And instead of fear, I felt only joy. I yelled and hollered and screamed and let all of my fear out in the form of exaltation as the ship climbed and climbed and then sailed over back of the wave. I felt free.