Water and Tomatoes

I dreamed about water last night.

The details are a little fuzzy and blurry, but I remember I was somewhere with two of my friends who are also my roommates. We were on a large body of water—it may have been a lake, it could have been the ocean. We were riding in a motorboat and decided we wanted to get out and swim like the rest of the people around us.

So, we did. We jumped out and I remembered being scared of what was going to happen. This is strange, because I’ve never been afraid of the water. I’m like a fish. I love water and swimming and marine life. My parents started teaching me from a young age not to be frightened of the ocean for example, but instead to have a healthy respect for it and its power.

But, I digress. It was a strange, unfamiliar feeling and that’s all you need to know. Back to my dream.

Nothing bad happened after we jumped out. We swam for a bit and bobbed in the waves that were created from other boats. Then, someone suggested that we move to another area, a deeper area. We swam to this deeper area and I remember moving through the water, but then, all of a sudden I was jumping in again and the water had gone from being like fifteen feet deep to being less than five.

I woke up just as I felt my legs buckle underneath me and as I heard a huge cracking noise.

Nothing was out of sorts in real life. My covers weren’t mussed and I didn’t even wake up freaked out. Just a little perplexed, thinking “Whoa, that was a weird dream.”

I’m not sure what it means or what it could signify. I’m not planning any trips to particularly large bodies of water and I don’t live near any either. But, I'll certainly be cognizant and extra aware for the next few weeks. The last thing I want is for me or anyone close to me to have broken legs. 

Like I said before, I don't know what the heck prompted this strange water dream. But--I did eat tomato based vegetable soup last night before I went to bed though. Historically, tomatoes make me dream weird, off-the-wall things--like that I'm cliff-diving or flying through the air on my own. And my soup was pretty watery (and by "pretty" I mean "extremely" watery. I'm still perfecting the finer points of cooking) sooo maybe that's where all this came from?

:)