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I had a dream last night.

My family and I drove to campus on a mission to buy cheese from Loblaws. Loblaws was really big. I couldn’t find cheese. I strolled past many cash registers, all of which had long lines. So I gave up and just walked straight past them and turned right into a small room—still inside Loblaws—where I met up with my family to eat seafood.

Now, this room was sketchier than the main Loblaws area using dimmer white florescent lights as supposed to yellow-toned lighting in the main Loblaws area. The room was a cube from the outside, just large enough for the 4 of us to sit along a well comfortably. The well occupied most of the room and was probably pretty deep. For some reason, at this point, my vision shifted from being at the entrance of the room to looking up from the bottom of the well. I’m not sure where I was at the point of the dream, but I knew my mother, father and brother were eating seafood spaghetti using the rim of the well as a table.

This is when I saw a catfish, a walrus, a shark, and a sting ray of sorts; they exhibited unsettling qualities that didn’t make them seem as sharky or walrusy as they are in real life. These creatures came into and out of focus haphazardly and I didn’t really nurture an awareness of whether or not they were actually appearing into and out of existence as well. I see the shark eating, no, inhaling the catfish such that the catfish is in my vision between me and the shark. It is only on hindsight that I can put names to the animals I saw and I might have seen others that I just never fixated on; visual information taken in faster than mind could process, images familiar yet unidentifiable.

The view returns to the surface with my family.
I wake up and realize I need to go pee pretty badly.

I’ve always wanted to have a dream with a shark in it.

1. alwaysmarissa said: Have you been to the Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens? No well but several almost-restaurants. I can see this happening…
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