I had a really weird dream last night -
I was in this really nice new SUV with my sister, her boyfriend, my cousin, and a couple other people that I can't remember the identities of. We were driving along this road on the coast, beautiful scenery. We stopped and pulled up behind this other car on the side of the road. There were some other people in it, I can't remember who, but apparently we knew them.
I'm standing beside the two cars, and we decide that we're gonna get going again. The other car takes off, so it's just me and the SUV, so I get in and I'm going to drive it, but then my cousin just suddenly appears (I thought she was in the other car) and says she's going to drive. As we're driving along, she starts talking about her middle name, which in the dream is something really weird, like Condetelian or something like that. She's talking about what it means, and as I'm listening I watch the scenery -
We go over this big hill and actually get air off of it, and it looks like we're going to fall in water, but the road actually continues with just very thin strips of land on either side. There are all kinds of islands all around us all covered with trees, and in the water swimming around are what appear to be skeletons, but they're actually people with these weird frame things around them that look like skeletons. There was even one that was like 50 ft tall walking around, it was reall cool. The weirdest thing is that I had a sense of deja vu, as if I've seen this all before.
We keep driving until we get to one of the islands. We end up in this little town, it's like a little touristy coastal town. I just kinda wander off away from everybody else and end up in this apartment building, but all the apartments are just open and interconnected to each other, so it's like a big maze and I get lost. All the apartments are decorated really eclectically in a bright, bohemian fashion. The people in them are never alarmed that I, a complete stranger, have wandered into their home, all they ask is that I not wake up their kids.
I eventually wander into this kind of lounge area with all kinds of tables and chairs all surrounded by giant fish tanks. There's some kind of meeting going on between these sort of mobster-looking guys in suits smoking cigars and drinking scotch. They don't realize I'm there, so I just sort of eavesdrop for a bit. I don't remember much but one of them mentions that he's worried about eavesdroppers, but another one says not to worry, there's a trap by the door. I think "oh shit", I look around and up above me there's a tank full of sharks. The sharks are looking at me in an expectant way, as if they know about the trap and are waiting for me to set it off. I guess if the trap is sprung, the sharks drop down on the intruder (I know, it doesn't really make sense, but it is a dream). I somehow have avoided setting it off, so I get out of there without pushing my luck.
I end up in an alley where an old gent is showing me and this kid how to make pea soup. Then I woke up.
Sorry it was so long, my dreams aren't usually so epic in length.