I’ve been having a recurring theme lately, that I didn’t even realize until today when (awake) I was at a harbor looking down into murky but fish-filled waters.
Lots of dreams lately have featured me looking downward from a vantage point into deep water, so I can see … creatures … deep beneath the surface.
They’re roughly benevolent, in that they’re not going to rage-hunt in scary ways, but in my dreams they (crocodilian or roughly tortoise shaped) are huge and would no doubt consume an adult of my size as a quick snack.
There’s no one entering the water I need to save.
I just … look down at water, and see deep below that massive creatures live quietly at the depths. Sometimes it’s a high-rise condo balcony looking down into the ocean; sometimes it’s a steep cliff in a forest overlooking a pond or small lake.
Not sure if it fits well, but for me it hasn’t been a visual theme. I put a playlist from a small group of youtubers (fermilab, pbs spacetime, scishow or one its variants, joe scott or kyle hill are the main ones) for a sort of white noise effect. At work this summer I’ve been listening to a lot of music from bands that come from other countries. So my dreams, this summer anyway have pretty consistently featured a musical soundtrack of japanese heavy metal, usually of the kawaii variety. The youtube playing in the background adds its own weirdness, but nothing consistent to a theme
Your subconscious is telling you to go back to school and study marine biology.
My dreams lately have been me trying to help people and failing spectacularly: rescuing people from burning buildings and not making it out, coming up to a car wreck but unable to get the person out, someone drowning and I can’t swim to them fast enough… that sort of shit. I’m a teacher at a boarding school and a full ½ of our students have separated from the program since March when we closed for the 'rona. Many are in bad situations and not doing well, and I’m stuck in Zoom meetings all day talking about redoing the flooring in room #3, or finding a new vendor for the toner cartridges for copier #17, or arguing whether homeroom should be 15 minutes or 22 minutes when we go back F2F, or wheteher Swiffers or traditional sweepmops would be better for the library… all to justify my continued paycheck. I dont think my dreams are too difficult to figure out.
I’ve been fighting insomnia all summer but have actually been sleeping a bit better the last ~10 days, but obviously its coming with a cost.
came back and read what I wrote earlier, and GACK! I must have been sleep typing, as it almost makes sense, but not quite.
So, what I was trying to say is that there has been a theme of weirdness, but not like all vampire scientists or anything specific, just general weirdness, with a japanese heavy metal sound track. (the vampiric scientists did strike me as especially weird and sticks out in memory however)