water

wow. so. okay. all day i have been putting off trying to tackle this one, but here's a try.

at the start, eliz and i were near the beach kind of under a high boardwalk (not the kind just above the sand that you have to scooch under on your belly--but the kind that's high and tall and easy to walk under). okay, but we weren't walking under this one, we were on a slab of concrete that ended and then there was a drop, under the boardwalk, about 10 feet. my family was there. one of us, eliz most likely, poured some water from a bottle over the edge of the concrete and we expected to hear the slap or drizzle as it hit the sand but there was nothing. she tried again. again nothing. this was suspicious.

we moved closer to the edge so we could see down to the sand and i poured some water but it didn't seem to actually hit the sand. it went far down but right before it got to the sand, maybe a foot? six inches? above (hard to tell from the directly-above-angle) the water dispersed and ran off as if it had hit the sand, but it was still in the air. e poured more water and we watched. same thing. it was eerie. disturbing.

then, instead of being at the edge of the ocean, we were at the edge of a pool. my family was sitting on low-wide steps near the edge watching and me and my friend (not sure if it was e anymore--i don't think it was but i don't know who it was. this person's presence felt a little like jen's, but who knows.) so my friend and i were going to go swimming. this was a weird pool, kind of some experiment by some rich guy who maybe had some power over us? not crazy mind-control power--but some authority.

friend and i started to walk in the water, but we were on a floor that was just an inch below the surface of the water (exactly like the floor in cirque de soleil's 'O'). as we walked on it, it started to withdraw (exactly like in 'O') and we were in the water.

but, then, my family and the other step-sitters had to move because that whole level was getting flooded with water (completely intentionally). i don't know where they went, but friend and i had to go up to the next level. we were in a tall cylindrical structure and quickly realized the pattern was for each level to flood with water as this pool got deeper and deeper. there were lots of people inside and the number seemed to steadily increase. everything was very modern looking. the walls of the tall cylindrical structure were silver and meshy looking (like wastebaskets from stores that specialize in selling things that hold other things). there were tubes and things that made up the interior structure and they were royal blue and maybe red, too. it was a lot like the wellesley college science center--especially as seen here and here. and here, too. especially the latter two.

the whole thing was disconcerting. friend and i decided we wanted out. i wondered where my family was. she and i got to the outside of the structure and started climbing down the outside. looking around, we were in a wide, open, flat expanse like that of a midwestern farm and there was a barn a ways down the dirt road.

we were stopped by the guy who owned/created/ran the whole thing and were nervous when he questioned why we were escaping. soon we reached the ground and i wondered again about my family.