Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Weird Dreams and Fatigue

As usual I am woken up today by weird dreams. I slept ten hours but it feels like less than three, fatigue sucks. I was sore, stiff and felt like my head was made of lead when I finally get up. Now as for the weird dreams part, these I still remember. I was out with a group and we start on the side of a road and ahead of us are a series of tornadoes that have been touching down in the vast field ahead of us, we're taking pictures of them and moving close to their drop zones. I know how a tornado works and you would NEVER move closer to them when they touch down, the suction and powerful swirling winds can lift you hundreds of feet in the air and toss you five times that distance. They work when rising warm air off the earth reaches the colder air of the atmosphere above and rapidly drop back down in a "funnel" shape. They have six classifications called the Fujita Scale, an F0 is the weakest of the six but still incredibly strong and an F5 is the strongest, largest, and most destructive on the scale. Anyway, in this weird dream I am photographing them and I watch them touch down and then disappear, only to reappear near by. This is typical tornado behavior it "skips" along the ground. Then the weird part is I see it lifting chunks of earth and water and beach up in what looks like Minecraft-esq blocks of pixelated images of fish in the water part of the land chunk. It slides along the ground like an ice cube on a countertop and comes very close to us, expecting it to suddenly "collapse" and flood us with water, the group backs up but the block doesn't break. We see the water around our feet but it's not wet and makes no splash when we walk in it. Then I see these horse things with brown cow spots on them walking on the surface of the water like it's not big deal. I turn and see a flag illuminated by the sunlight, the tornadoes have cleared up and the sun comes back out. This is the flag I see slowly waving in the wind:


That the provincial flag of Quebec. I don't know why I see this flag on the pole, waving in the wind I have never been to Quebec nor have I ever seen any part of it that would get tornadoes. The area of the tornado cluster looks like a lake surrounded by high cliffs covered in trees and grass, a lot of Ontario's northern part has the Canadian Shield running through it, sheer cliffs of solid pink granite and I have seen them before. Years and years ago when I was a child attending a camping field trip with my grade 7/8 class. The Canadian Shield does run through Quebec too but I have never seen it in that province, nor have I ever seen any pictures of it so I would have no idea what it looks like. The camera I am using to take these pictures is also strange, it's bulky and thick like an early 2000's digital camera I don't like the way it feels in my hands or how it works. I tell someone in my group this and they don't say anything. It only takes about twelve pictures before it says the memory card is full and it displays a white screen with text in it. I can only make out some of it because I didn't read it all but the text says the camera is on "cool down" mode and "memory card full". Most digital cameras today have memory cards that can take up to 5000 pictures and 47 hours of video before it's full, I have a two gig card in my digital camera now and I have never filled it completely. Either way it was strange enough to wake me up, I was still tired and it was a fight to even open my eyes but that dream was just too weird for me to stay asleep, and also bladder alarm clock went off so yeah...