Tornados, cruise ships, pirates...the usual.

First, some catching up...

1. A couple of weeks ago I dreamed I was at Marian Tague's "house" (it's a mobile). It became stormy, and the sky grew very dark. It actually began to look like tornado weather, and since she doesn't have a basement I decided we should go somewhere else for shelter. I started rounding up my cats and loading them into my truck, but because the passenger side window was open they would just dart out again. Even though it kept getting darker, I could see a huge tornado coming. I was starting to worry about getting us all out in time, when the whole thing blew over. All around us trees and houses had been destroyed, but Marian's house was untouched! Then the dream drifted into a sort of survivalist thing...

2. Five or six days ago I dreamed I was on a round the world cruise with Gordon. We were somewhere in the southern hemisphere, and I saw penguins and ice as we sped along. I was worried about hitting seals. We stopped at some lush island for an excursion, and pretty soon we were in a line of people hiking through the jungle and up a rocky hill. There was a village of sorts, but it soon became very modern with glass and steel and shopping centers and it was very tacky and disappointing.

Last night:

A series of adventure type dreams. The first one I remember involved being on a hillside overlooking a little town near a major body of water, like Puget Sound. Suddenly a huge 18th century type sailing ship began coasting down the grassy slope on a river of water! I recognized the vessel and the crew as pirate friends of mine. I told Gordon I was going to dart off and try and catch them, and he waved me off! Running, I jumped into the stream which was still flowing, bankless, down the hill. It was like a gigantic water slide, and I slid faster and faster, feet first, gradually catching up with the ship just as she entered the bay with a huge splash. Before I hit the ship I was up on my feet, sliding like a surfer. On the quarterdeck the captain (played here by Johnny Dep dressed as Capt. Hook) received me with open arms and a huge smile. Evidently we'd been working on some scheme, but I told him it hadn't come to fruition yet. I can't remember what it was. Buying some land? Another boat? Some kind of project? Anyway, he said it was ok and not to worry about it, and that they were just glad to see me and have me around.

Later, I had a dream about seeing some relatives off on a cruise. I was on the ship wandering around, and thinking it was probably close to sailing time...but I was too late, the gangway was already detached and we were leaving the pier! I approached a crewmember and asked what the policy was on stowaways. When he asked "why?" I explained that I was not a paying passenger! Later I was in a cabin with somebody, perhaps my mom, and she was telling me not to worry and we would figure a way for me to get off or just take the cruise somehow. As usual, I did a lot of walking, looking at the nice restaurants, etc.

Still later I had a kind of superspy or superhero dream, where I was on a mission to rescue somebody or escape from somewhere. There was a lot of climbing and crawling around involved, and I had lots of neat gadgets. I/we were in a large space like a warehouse, and I needed to scale a wall to get up to a loft area which would lead us out. I shot up a little winch thing and held on to the handle at the end as it slowwwwly wound up the line. I was worried about whether it had the horsepower to haul me up! My dad came over and gave me a bit of a boost. Somebody suggested I "change" into my "super" guise and just fly up. "But in my 'bat' mode my wings will fill up this entire place!"