Last night I had a dream that i was standing on a sheltered wooden dock overlooking a grand serene lake. The dock was surrounded by roots shooting out from beneath the lake, they looked like the remains of a giant tree, first gone wild and then died in the waters. Far off in the distance i saw the greyish shapes of land, other islands. The sky was a greyish blue, it was dusk and everything was very still. The water was completely flat, not a ripple. Then i saw a beautiful elegant elephant-like creature approaching from the east where it was darker. It walked on the water, hardly creating a ripple. It had beautiful supple leathery skin, falling gently all over its frame making folds of soft skin, glimmering black and blue in the half light. It wasnt like a regular elephant. Its legs were alot longer and its trunk wasnt as long, its ears werent as big as an african or even an indian elephant, but it was the body that made it look most unlike an elephant. The body was shaped more like that of a hyena, its back sloped back and its rear legs looking rather unsturdy despite being big-boned. I thought it was making its way over to the islands in the distance, but then i realised it was being chased by another elephant almost identical except this one seemed more aggressive just in the way it moved more swiftly, swaggering, and slapping its trunk this way and that. The other elephant wanted to mate with the first, the second being the male, but as it caught up with the female it started to shrink and its form changed shape into a large bird with a wing span of at least 10 metres, and a neck and beak like that of a heron, only its body was quite fat. It plunged itself into the female and mated with her. The bird was obviously in pain, the elephant was much stronger than the bird and it just wanted to get away. After the bird mated with her, it let the wind carry it one last time high into the air and then plummeted down dead into the water. The elephant was confused and panicked. From the dock I coaxed the elephant near me and led it back to its home to the isles in the east.

All day i felt a little bit fatigued as if id gone through some kind of trauma and i dont understand why but i ended up crying in my pillow tonight. It wasnt due to the dream, but usually dreams signal your state of being. Its funny but i feel alot better after that cry and more determined to do my work with energy and focus.