Dreams

I've had two vivid and overly random dreams in the last week. After a little thinking about them, I've come to the conclusion that they each have meaning. The first dream was of me visiting a patch of land that had mature plants on it, including one very tall palm tree. The land was surprising familiar and later in the dream I recalled that I had once sown seed in that same dirt many years before.

Later awake and analyzing the dream, I was encouraged and motivated as its meaning came to me. My time here and my relationships is my sowing of seeds. I may leave and never see these people again, but I have the chance to instill thoughts in people that would blossom to something I could never image. The palm tree was special too, because it means that there is some relationship here that will be very meaningful in the long run. The dream told me to keep my eyes open and to truly invest in those I spend my time with.

Then Friday night I had a dream that startled me awake before 7 am on Saturday. I was working in the basement of what seemed like an old run-down church. I was down there teaching kids something, when suddenly there was a girl acting really strange in the hallway outside of the classrooms. Next thing I know, this girl looks over at the boys bathroom, where the door is cracked open, and offers a really strange remark. In the most casual of tones as if she has experienced a similiar tragedy before, she says something along the lines of "were screwed now." So I make my way over to the bathroom and there is a foot of standing water in the bathroom and there is a mentally challenged little boy floating face up under the water. He's smiling and has apparently been in this position - trapped under water near death - before. I was so shocked by what I saw in the dream that I was instantly wide awake.

The meaning of this one came to me very quickly as I laid on my couch that morning. I was that boy, drowning with a smile on my face. And I had been in that position before. It was a message to me that I need to always be sober. Always. That was a creepy dream.