Dreams

I dreamed I was in charge of a team responsible for getting rid of a shark; it had swum up one leg of a U-shaped trough that was open to the ocean at one end, partially open but partially blocked at the other. The trough had been dug as a trap for the shark, with the idea that if the shark was trapped in the closed end, we could plant explosives along the path and blow it up. The trap end was supposed to have been closed off except for a slit that we could lure through, but it had partly collapsed so it was big enough to let the shark fully through. I decided, based on a Sandra Bullock movie [that I think exists only in my dream], to use myself as bait, swimming inside a shark cage that would effectively block off that end, and keep the shark's interest while the explosives were being set -- that would give time for the rest of the team to get away before setting off the explosives. (They could be set to detonate immediately but that would sacrifice the rest of the team.) I knew there was a chance I'd get either eaten by the shark or caught in the explosion, but one loss was better than many. Except the cage wouldn't open oh no! So I went in "naked" hoping I could punch it in the nose before it bit me; the shark came close for a while but then started swimming back the other way, so I called the helicopter in to light it up, while swimming hard backwards into the ocean, and the helicopter came in and pew-pew-ed along the length of the trough, both hitting the shark and the explosives, and everything went boom but it was a nicely controlled explosion that hurt no one except the shark. [i don't know why the helicopter didn't just pew-pew the shark to begin with, but I get the feeling the copter didn't exist until the very end -- if this had been a scripted movie it would have been grounded for some reason and only revived last minute, swooping in like Han Solo...]

I also dreamed I was investigating a haunted roller-skate-hockey-golf-pool thing ... it was a 1v1 game played on roller skates where each person had a puck that they hit with a club, and used that puck to hit a third neutral puck (kind of like how in pool you use balls to hit other balls?) and the course was multilevel with broad shallow ramps up and steep narrow slides down (sort of like a real life chutes and ladders except not ladders because wheels) and the goal was to get the neutral puck up to the top and into a marked goal. Only there were ghosts preventing anyone from winning; it turned out they were lonely and feeling sulky because their original playmates had "abandoned" them -- really they had grown up and had kids and then died, but ghosts have no sense of time so they thought they'd been deliberately abandoned -- so we cleared that up and arranged for an ongoing club of kids so the ghosts (who were also kids) always had company.