wild water

In a desperate attempt to find some sleeping comfort I moved my slightly smaller than a barge self to the squishy couch in the middle of the night.

I found sleep. And with it, another crazy dream:

I was walking around a neighborhood that overlooked a lake. It was beautiful - manicured lawns, tall trees, everything green and lush and in bloom. I decided to take my camera for a walk and snap some pictures. I was visiting and wanted to document this magnificent area so I could look back on it later.

As I walked down the road (the neighborhood was on a hill that declined down to the lake) looking for the perfect picture, I looked upon the lake. All of a sudden this huge tidal wave of water came rushing out and up the hill at me at tremendous speed. I turned to head back up the hill for safety and what seemed like from no where came a massive rush of water down the hill at me as well. I ran to the side, since it was my only route, and pulled myself up into one of the trees. Other people were in the trees clutching on for their life. There was a pregnant woman right next to where I was. She was lying on her back on one of the branches holding on to two other smaller branches with her hands. I asked her if she wanted help to try to sit up and she nodded. In the process of helping her she lost her balance and fell. She was grabbing on to the two smaller branches even tighter now hoping she wouldn't fall down into the flooding waters below us.

Then my dream switched to another place in time...

I was a lifeguard, thin and fit in my white tank top and red shorts, working at a public beach. There were so many people swimming and soaking up the sun. There was a hush all around about Naval forces stealthing around off the shore and they were looking for new recruits for their special forces team for some local project. All my co-lifeguards were there around me. All of us in our uniforms. We were being asked to perform several tasks to test our ability. I don't recall what the tasks were, but we were in the water and none of us were qualifying. Maybe one of the girls met one performance test, but beyond that no one.

As we stood there up to our waist in the water, talking with our superior, right out of no where surfaced the Naval special force team. They were riding fancy shark like looking jet skiis that were painted a dark green/charcoal color and they were wearing military gear. It was an awesome site to see them surface up in the middle of a bunch of casual swimmers. No one saw them coming. One of the men came over to talk to us and our superior to see if any of us had met their qualifications for assisting them in their local task.

Since none of us qualified, they said they could use our help in other areas. I want to recall that it was driving trucks guised as garbage disposal people, but it's a bit foggy.

Then I woke up.