Dream Journal

I’m a really fun special event or celebration with a great teacher. There are students from Spring Lake Park there, and I’m making jokes about Karen hitting on me to Dave.

This older friend is leading us down along this peninsula in shallow waters to this great swimming area at the end of the peninsula — an area of rolling hills of soft sand. There are a lot of people there. The waves are gently rolling. Across the sea is a huge power plant with giant energy conductors in the water as well as on land. Beyond it is a huge greenish building shifting back and forth in the water, which I think is very odd. But as it moves past the end of the peninsula, I realize it’s a boat. This big dolphin rises up out of the water behind it. I’m totally enraptured for a moment, before I notice how fake and rubbery it looks, and how it doesn’t interact with the water. A thought form! I notice it’s connected to the boat by a mechanical arm (though I don’t see this). It speaks to us. Then a set of three of these rubber dolphins comes, just as fake-looking and attached together. They change form to be these puppets of sea-goddesses, and they “speak” to us, moving in front of the boat.

Then there is a try-out. These paper dolphin masks and costumes are handed out to groups of two. I find this cute blonde girl to partner with and we put the costumes on. Our faces are maybe a foot apart and we are talking, smiling, and flirting. Then Rebecca reminds me that we were going to do the lobster part, so I give my position to someone else.

Rebecca and I soon arrive at the try-outs. The kind teacher seems to be running the show. We see two “dolphins” on the stage having this dialogue. Then one tears out of the costume and hijinks ensue. Rebecca and I have these red lobster-antenna crowns for our heads. We’re told there’s two lobster parts, and we have to compete. I go first and play at having trouble getting up on the stage, then do something that makes the audience laugh. Then it’s Rebecca’s turn. She puts on a black and white building costume and starts singing the Gilligan’s Island theme while horizontally sliding to the edge of the stage. Not too funny, I think, but then she (as a building) is moving down a city street of similar buildings and it starts shifting, changing to many buildings moving down many streets in a beautiful, incredible display. I’m awed. The judges declare it a tie and ask us to go again. I do some okay funny stuff, then sit down in the audience and wish this random guy a happy birthday. His name is Brandon. I make some cracks and eventually have him kiss not his date but the guy sitting next to him and he does — on the mouth! The crowd loves it and calls it the “Brandon Routine”. Then Rebecca goes and it starts out so-so then gets pretty funny but we’re running into the next time slot and these musicians in black are already setting up on the stage next to her.

Afterwards I sit with the musicians and idly play the drums with my hands while talking with a friend.

Then I’m walking along this country road with some older people. The sky is pink like it’s sunset and there’s this huge machinery structure off in the distance to the right. Ahead of us on the road is a farmhouse with fields of crops around it. This older lady is hitting on me, talking about the Brandon Routine.

References: Karen and Dave were friends in high school, which was Spring Lake Park High School.