Death In An Empty Pool

Why is it that in most of my dreams involve people chasing me or trying to kill me? Last night some guy tried to get rid of his girlfriend and several of her friends (myself included?) by planting an explosive on an elevator. While leaving the building the entire group was anxious, so when we all couldn’t fit in the elevator together I opted to take the stairs down, much to the chagrin of the others. Gripped in fear, they all followed me down the stairs instead. When we got to the first floor, I heard an audible beeping sound that could only be an explosive setting off. We took cover and I watched in almost slow motion as the stairwell/hallway erupted in shrapnel and flames. I could see the orange of the fire but could not feel any of its heat. My alarm woke me shortly thereafter, which can be somewhat of a disturbing sound after already hearing one electronic beep. I can’t explain it, but I feel like most of my dreams recently involve a lot of chasing and near-death experiences. Let’s just hope there’s no foreshadowing there.

As for strange occurrences in the real world, I came home last night from seeing “Over The Hedge” to see a rubber hose carrying water from our backyard to the gutter. Our pool is being drained in order to clean-up the water or some other explanation my father tried to tell me last night. Oddly enough, there’s something somewhat morose about seeing your pool drift down the street through the gutters of the neighborhood. With each cascading water drop tumbling through the storm drains you can almost see and hear the memories you’ve had in the pool being literally flushed down the drain. Of course, waking up to an empty pool is somewhat unusual as well; however not as sad or eerie. An empty pool always reminds me of the “That 70’s Show” episode of the party in the deep end of a drained pool and how that could possibly be fun (or at least amusing). As long as people don’t completely lose themselves and go all “golden god!” on me. Or I dream of my demise in the empty pool.