Docks & Odd Boats

In this dream I was driving in the car a very long way with Dad in the middle of the night. He said he wanted me to see something special he thought I would like. At around 4am we finally pulled into the parking lot of wherever we were, parked, got out, stretched, then walked to the first bridge to the first dock we were at. I asked him what we were up to and why we were at such a large harbor near the ocean. He told me to just follow him. I told him I was cold. He pulled out a large blue puffy jacket that I zipped and snapped up but I was still cold. For some reason I was wearing a cotton skirt and my purple slip on shoes. The wind was blowing and we get to a sort of beach section that has a shake on the upper right part of it selling little boats so people could get from one side of the beach to the other since the water cut off a large part of it. Those who couldn’t afford a boat had to wait for some nice person to take them or wait for a piece of large drift wood that would naturally float its way back to where we all were standing in the cold wind.

There was a dock out to that water and much further out I could see really huge sail boats coming in and out of the harbor and also docked on the other sides. This side had only bridges, docks, and a weird rest area for visitors that was a bit like a restaurant but not really one. The drift wood finally made its way back to our side of the beach area and my Dad jumped onto it and looked at me to follow. I shook my head and shouted that I don’t jump well and defiantly won’t make it in a skirt. He paddled it to shore the few feet it had gone out and pulled the drift wood to the sand and kept it there for a while. I told him I was too cold to even feel my legs properly and he wanted me to jump onto a piece of wood that who knows if I could even make it onto without plunging into the water. I asked him what he was thinking and what in the world he was up to. Was it the boats or the water he wanted to show me? I just didn’t know and was getting colder by the minute.

After waiting while I noticed the line for the drift wood was getting longer and the sun was slowly coming up. It was very overcast and cloudy in the sky. I asked Dad why he was planning on holding that piece of drift wood all day or if he was going to use it to transport us to the other side. He asked me if I was suicidal. The rest of the line lost interest in going across that way and muttered something about nightfall being safer. I just didn’t understand. I told him I was too cold to keep just waiting her in the freezing cold so I was going go to back to the car to warm up and wait for him. He told me he would walk back with me then come back.

We started back towards the car but then he was walking too fast ahead and I lost sight of him. I tried to find my own way across all the bridges and docks and stuff but I got really lost. I ended up finding a dead end in this really beautiful secret like looking cove. Coming up onto the beach in the small bright and beautiful cove was a bunch of super large animals carrying a sort of built on boat on their backs with people and cargo in it. I stared in amazement! It was such a spectacular and bright sight I almost didn’t feel the cold anymore. After a while Dad came up behind me and said, “This is what I wanted you to see, do you like it?” I smacked him hard on the arm and said, “You disappeared on me! Where did you go so fast?”

He chuckled and said that he had to because the only way to find the place was to not know it’s there and you must get lost in order to find this magical place. I would never have found it if I had been guided to it by another and most people cannot get to it twice. I asked him how in the world he got there again if he had done it once before. He said it was all in his mind. He had to force himself to forget, turn off his directional sense and wonder around aimlessly until it showed up. Not just anyone has that kind of mental control. He said we always must come alone so by leaving me behind I was able to find it before him since I didn’t need the mind trick for my first time here. Then he gave me a hug and said he woule try and teach me this mental control and I woke up still freezing my ass off.