Dreams

So I hadn't had a dream that was like this one in a long time. Perhaps ever.

I am on vacation, I think. I kept remembering the setting as NYC but the beaches were sandy and warm so it felt more like Florida or California. Maybe Miami or LA. Attempting to rationalize dreams once again... First there is a tsunami. The whole city begins to flood and those who have not evacuated ascend to the upper floors of the high-rise buildings to escape the flooding. The tsunami takes on a persona. It changes from being a natural disaster to some sort of alien invasion. The waters ebb and flow and there is a distinct cohesion between droplets. There emerge five heroes who vow to save the city from this invasion. I am somehow recruited to assist the heroes and taught the secrets of flight. The superheroes are reminiscent of comic book identities clad in their tight-fitting costumes, all extremely buff, and collaborating to fight some evil.

At some point we are surfing gigantic swells that are hundreds of feet high, then alight into the air with surfboards in hand and fly off. I fly through the broken out window of a skyscraper into a well furnished home. But the furniture keeps morphing and rearranging itself within the single room.

Then I wake up. I wrote most of it down to keep from forgetting and then went back and fell fast asleep again.
The second dream was not nearly as vivid or descriptive and far more brief.

I am in a library leaning over the railing of some sort of mezzanine. This is not a local library but a vast one with many people in it. It almost feels more like a cross between a hotel some capitol building. The furnishings are lavish and the wood is a dark cherry with panels inlaid in the walls. Suddenly there is a riot below. Maybe not a riot but a stampede. I am confused by what is occurring but the people below are all rushing to the front doors in search of escape. I sit down at one of the tables lining the mezzanine and let the throng of crazed library goers pass. And then I realize, in the dream, this is all just a video game. Same as the first one.

When I woke up from the second wild dream in one night I wondered what gave me such strange dreams and then it struck me: 5 Hour Energy and watching Ponyo before bed. I attribute the wild night to that.