Thursday, August 20, 2009

Sand Tiger Sharks on the Lawn

I dreamed that I was trying to leave for work from a house I was living in with my sister. I was in a rush because I had three back to back meetings in the morning which was also true in real life today.

As I was trying to pull out from the driveway I realized there were carcasses of sand tiger sharks all over the lawn and blocking driveway. They looked like real sand tigers with their mouths stuck open because of their jagged teeth but more rubbery skin.

Reem and I decided to call in "the authorities" to move the dead beasts. They took forever to arrive so we decided to try to pull them out by tying a rope from them to the back of my car. When I backed out the rope yanked and pulled out their rows of teeth completely from their mouths. We spent a long time looking at the teeth and their mouths close up.

I then realized it was 1:30pm and that I was hours late for all three of my meetings. I got back in my car and drove real fast, thinking about how no one was going to believe why I was late today.

4 comments:

Reem Tara said...

Ooh, animals and teeth! So symbolic...

I love the reality of your thought of "nobody is going to believe this" in your dream. It's like, even as you slept, you knew how ridiculous this dream was =)

Sara Ashes said...

the sharks sort of reminded me of those rubber shark earrings i had years ago. remember those?

Reem Tara said...

I LOVED those earrings! Remember their names? "Jaws" and "Dentures?" And how you wrote inside their mouths in blue pen, and lost one in the ocean maybe...?

Sara Ashes said...

HAHAHA! good memory! A seagull stole one of them when i had taken it off on the beach to go swimming. Stupid Seagull!