Platitude @ MindSay

Did you ever have a dream that wasn't a dream? A dream that felt too real and that kept coming back? I have had a recurring dream for many years that I am in the water, falling. I am on by back and looking up as I sink into the blackness. I look across to my right and see another man there as well, I know I know him but I don't know his name in the dream. Somehow I know that he is a really good friend, someone I know very well. I look up and see that there is a great ball of fire above us. I know it's a fire and not the sun or the moon because I have the impression that it is night. As we fall into the darkness I wake up, usually in a cold sweat, clutching the sheets tightly.

Last night, for the very first time, the dream started before I am in the water. I am wearing the same dark pea-coat and black beanie, the sea is choppy and the wind is freezing cold. I am standing at the railing of a boat and there is a sudden burst of light. I fall backwards off the boat over the railing and into the water where the usual dream sequence starts. I have had the wind knocked out of me by the fall and am sinking, unable for some reason to move.

As I pondered this dream today I wondered if, since this dream comes to me often, this is a past life memory. The flash of light might be an explosion which I then see again as I look up from the sea. I wondered why I would be on a boat with such a low railing untill I realised I was standing on the deck of a surfaced submarine, possibly a U-boat. That would make sense since they recharged their batteries at night while running on the surface. What if the explosion was an attack? What if the fall didn't knock the wind out of me but I was actually shot? Perhaps that's why I am unable to move?

I have always had a facination with U-boats and have models, blue prints, books and movies on the subject. I used to draw them constantly when I was just a child and my favourite toy was my U-boat that actually had a motor and could dive in the swimming pool. Perhaps this is a past life memory after all. It would explain my paranoid fear of the sea, although my sister tells me that was a shark-related event in my childhood. Makes ya wonder eh?

Now for something completely different and unrelated.... A discussion my son and I had over lunch today:

If animals have attitude, would a Llama have lattitude? Would a Platypus have platitude?

Now for an incidence of coincidence:

Last week my ex-girlfriend was in hospital. This week my ex-wife is in the same hospital. I went to visit her today and asked at the front desk what room she is in.. it's the SAME ROOM!!!

Am I spooked by this?