Dreamt I was in a ferry ship in the North Sea headed to Britain at night we took a meal during a storm and as we sat down to eat it the ship started rolling, when k looked out the window there was a massive whirlpool forming. There was a wave of panic among the passengers but I
was more worried about finding my car on the vehicle decks. What deck did we park on? What did the car look like? I didn't know. while the ship listed from side to side in the storm various carts & bags rolled down the aisles. Somehow this reminded me of the high grass wasteland
I'd tramped through between buildings - speculating on the strange gatherings of birds, and people - the people might have been wedding parties gathering to be photographs. But why were birds garthering there? I didn't know. Suddenly a set of polished metal pins like bowling pins
fell over and into my baggage, which included groceries and old lesson plans. I pulled them out and placed them on the cart they'd fallen from and gathered up my stuff. On the way to the escalators I spotted an acquaintance who was playing a deck game which consisted of setting a
pneumatic robot down a path - the farther it got the higher the score. The robot looked like a little monk, equipped with a tall wooden staff which it used to fend off or vault obstacles. When she saw me she wanted to ask me about my classroom but I was still trying to find my
vehicle on the vehicle decks. Stopping in a washroom, I returned to the search and overheard a ferry employee talking about the difficulty deboarding during heavy swells. More pressure. The only solution to this nightmare was to wake up, so I did.

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