Darkening Sky

Dream #1

The sky is overcast and the sea is churning against the sandy beach.  I stand on the edge of the water opening up my shirt and like a sail it catches the wind, lifts me gently into the air and takes me back away from the water to a chain-link fence at the base of the beach where I softly land. 

Behind this fence a number of close friends stand watching.  A couple of them come through a gate in the fence and walk to the waters edge, unbuttoning their shirts and allowing the wind to carry them across the beach too.  We do this three or four times enjoying the exhilaration of flying through the air.

I return to the edges of the ocean, pause, and look out across the expanse of water to the muddy grey horizon.  I open up my shirt but the wind changes direction and I am taken out over the open sea and dropped into the ocean by the elements.  I feel the water envelop me and the darkness surrounding me. I resist the urge to succumb to its embrace and kick up and through the wall of water above me.  I gasp for air as I break into the cold sky and look for the beach.  It is quite a long way back over the water, my friends are small dots in the distance.  ‘I’m not sure I can swim that far,’ I think, before I wake up.