dream

i'm not sure if this is the beginning of it or not, but this is all i can remember right now. i'm out on the sea, i think it's night because everything is dark and the water looks black. i'm with somebody, i think i'm protecting a child, a young boy (i think), maybe 7 or 8 y/o. i don't really remember what he looks like. we're supposed to get somewhere, but we're being pursued and attacked. people everywhere on medium-sized ships are shooting at us. i'm not worried about me, i have a vague sense of invincibility and dream-like power to move very quickly and jump with him far distances. so we're literally leap-frogging on ships and various objects through the ocean toward some destination. i end up leaping to put us on the back of a whale that can travel faster than the ships pursuing us and control him with my mind to stay above water and steer him to where we're going. it's hard to describe what it looks like. water seems to flow upward into this gigantic (rising up to the clouds), shimmering, and glowing see-through mirror. the whale starts to go up in the water and i leap off his back through this portal (?) inside. everywhere i jump i'm able to take him with me by the hand. the inside is a large, very high room with stone stairs leading around the walls up. it feels like i'm in a tower. we get about halfway up when whomever was chasing us gets in and starts shooting at us again. we're caught parallel to them across the room, but on a higher level and they try to climb up both sets of stairs to get us. i'm able to hide us behind some ornament for protection while i engage with some kind of guns. it has a vague matrix feel, but not quite. once, i have them on the defense, i quickly do something to prevent them from following us-- i think i break the floor? and somehow get us up to the next floor. for some reason, i remember the fourth floor, and it felt like the fourth floor, but i don't remember 2 or 3. as soon as i get there, i see people on the other side of a barrier who just look at me. there is a fierce-looking black woman on my side of the barrier, who i know is against me, but i feel tired and tranquil. the room isn't very big. i think the boy goes and sits down on the other side of the room, while i go sit down next to the black woman. i have some sense that she's my enemy, but i can't help but go sit down next to her and she puts her arms around me and i become very drowsy and start to fall asleep. that's when i wake up.

i have no idea what the heck that means. it took me a few minutes after i woke up to put it back together. i did watch desperado and once upon a time in mexico, so it's quite possible that had some influence. as i wrote this, the number 4 seemed to have strong significance, but i don't know why. i used to have very vivid and lucid dreams all of the time, but not much lately. of course, i haven't been sleeping well in quite a while either.

i think this is what the lady looked like: http://lifeofbrio.blogspot.com/2006/04/disbelief.html.

--brio