This morning was a 5am wake up call and for some stupid reason I stayed up until 1am last night watching flying fish and chatting with friends.
I couldn't miss the zodiac cruising through the mushroom like limestone islands, watching for birds and looking at rock art...but after a few hours on the zodiac and having breakfast looking like a total zombie I decided it would be best to skip the morning snorkel and catch up on some sleep.
I'm pretty sure I had a better trip than anyone awake cause I had the most crazy dreams that I can ever remember.
I was on this trip with small avatar like creatures everywhere, fish jumping into the boat with big eyes, multiple heads making faces and waving at me, tribal humans with strange things growing out of their heads, little creatures resembling mudskippers and sea stars, thousands of dolphins jumping over me spinning high into the air.
Then I'm on land taking pictures and instead of a normal camera flash, the flash would come out of the front of the camera on a long pole shooting like 30 feet in front of it and at the end of the pole a big umbrella would come out flapping open and closed. The umbrella was alive, everything was alive. The umbrella hit a palm tree and suddenly all the palm trees started falling over hitting the ocean and village, ruining everything in its path. I felt so guilty and had to tell the chief of the village that it was me that destroyed the village, it was such an awful feeling.
Waking up, these scenes were so vidid, I really felt like I just experienced something totally out of this world.
Later in the day as I reflected on all that happened in my dream, I realize that my brain was filing and sorting everything that I've been learning and experiencing on this trip. All the diverse marine life we've seen, the umbrella from my camera was actually images of the flying foxes we saw at Palau Palau Su, the falling palm trees that we learned about during one of the lectures onboard, how they grow in the soil and eventually fall over. And me ruining the village was a reflection to us humans destroying the planet.
I just think that it's interesting how we are all so connected, and how our minds work to filter our experiences.
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