We'll Ride Huge Waves and Freeze Them at the Top

--> (Here's a something I wrote in January and forgot to post until now)

Along with pool dreams my wave dreams have become more frequent. Recently I’ve been recalling 3-4 per week. When Adhit and I first met and went to a night-beach I recall telling him that I had just had a dream featuring a similar location, where giant waves crashed over my head.

Just the other day I visited Jack’s big house, which had several pools. One of them was filled with sea creatures. I watched the otters undulate underwater. “The current doesn’t seem strong…” Jack said “where are the blue and yellow fish?” I noticed several of these huge and shiny fish, creating currents with their tales: “You mean those?” I asked. I wanted to go swimming with the animals but Jack said I would be a foreign element in their ecosystem. Two fat seals with big whiskers sat at the bus stop at the perimeter of the pool.  I made a polite smile and said “Hi.” The fatter of the seals responded: “Hi.”

When the tide came in Jack’s house began to flood (it didn’t have a roof after all). It was on top of a mountain surrounded by sea. The sky was stormy and the surrounding flora was a deep saturated green. I went around collecting my favorite books so they wouldn’t get wet.

Another morning I woke up and told Jack I had a dream about the ocean. “Oh wow, you never dream about the ocean!” she replied. The waves in this one were the biggest I'd ever seen. Little kids were being swirled around without control and I was tempted to join them. My family was on the horizon and I was about to approach them when the tide became too fierce. The waves got as tall as houses and came as far as the row of plastic flamingos that were stuck in the sand.

The next day Jack and I went to Baker Beach in San Francisco, to look at the Golden Gate Bridge and enjoy the winter-night-beach. The waves there were the biggest I’ve seen in real life and I jumped up in down in excitement, thrilled and afraid at the prospect of swimming in them.

Sometime after Jack left, my wave dreams got in a competition and finally selected a victor. I was on a mountain by the beach and adolescents were playing in the waves (I guess the kids from previous dream had grown up). My brother was one of them. The waves were as high as the mountaintop I sat on and I thought: “These are way bigger than waves I’ve seen in dreams.” I got worried about my brother and jumped in to try to save him. I tumbled around, summersaulting with the current, realizing it was fun, and that I could return to the mountain whenever I wanted. “Wouldn’t it be cool if I could freeze a wave at its peak and stay at the top?” I wondered. “If this was a dream that would be possible” I reasoned. I decided to try, just in case it was a dream. I reached the apex of a wave and froze it, staying at the top and smiling.