I had a dream this morning after I fell asleep during meditation practice
. Its not where the dream started but its what I remember the most. Since there's been lots of flooding around the globe, I thought it was interesting to also have a flooding dream. For those in flooded area, stay safe!!
I past a couple in a park while heading towards a shopping town. It was a dark overcast and the couple were nervously talking. An emergency evacuation was called but the couple did not seem to take it seriously and, I guess, they were having second thoughts. I was on the wrong side of the town so I didnt actually hear it but the overcast was indicating some heavy rain so I had the impression of potential flooding. As I walked past the couple, I asked if they had any valuable electronic they needed covering. I had a large ziploc bag for that purpose as a temporary kind of protection.
I was already carrying a lot of other important items that I was delivering to someone or somewhere, the bag was for this kind of unexpected emergency and I was going to put some of my electronics away. I think only one of them put their phone in. I walked towards the town and they followed (I now had one of their phones!). It felt very much like, if you pretend you know what you're doing, other around you will assume the same! In this case, I knew I was delivering something very important, like damning evidence, it looked mundane but it was more important than my life, so I had to get
it to safety. Whatever it was, I had also put it in the bag just in case if it came to the moment where I could hand it off to someone else before getting swept away myself.
When I got to the town, it was actually quite pretty. The impression I got was it was a town square built up for tourist but all of the local still had their business there so everything was run by locals. It felt much more like a European town than an US rural town. The buildings were coordinated with a Marigold color on the walls and any wood external décor was painted over a dark brown. Any sidewalks were paved in cobblestone and lots of colorful plants were in large pots. It wasnt until then was I able to hear the emergency system.
Their emergency system played like museum tour, where you had to walk up to hear. Where I was at, in a calm voice it said to cross the bridge. The bridge had these large chain-link that would allow someone to hold on while crossing if the water was too high. Below I was able to see the water was already rushing fast but wasnt high enough that the bridge was flooded. While crossing, I remember thinking that if the water suddenly rose, I could at drop one of my bags, preferring the electronic bag from before. I'd prefer not to drop any of them, because these were important. Even if waterlogged they were still useful. The couple following finally realized the situation, they were shocked. But they saw me, crossing, I wasn't panicked; I looked like I knew what I was doing and calm enough that they crossed too, even though they were very scared.
At the end of the crossing the emergency picked up again where the recording continued with the story of the town. Mind you each recording was very short and followed down an evacuation route, so you had to follow it to hear the rest of the story. The older man in the recording talked about a historic hurricane that destroyed the town, suddenly, bringing heavy flooding. The flooding is what killed most of the people and in the aftermath, when they rebuilt, the townsfolk built in the evacuation route, including stuff like the railing, into the layout, so that if there was another that hit, there would be better survival rate. There was something about the region where they were located that if the kind of storm would hit again, flooding would always happen in a specific way so it was pretty certain where you could go for safety.
I remember when the path went from a straight to a sharp turn, and I was able to use the volume of the sound to figure out where to go. Part of the recording would tell you what to look for, so in this case, the last recording I past said to go look for a set of planters while the one at the planters said here you are now look across the street since there was now a large gap where they couldnt put one of the recording. The whole time the guy's voice was calm, flowing very easily between the relevant guiding directions and the story, I'm guessing to ease any nervousness.
At this point, the water was everywhere, flowing like you would see on a normal raining day, but it wasnt raining here, just the flowing water. After I past the gap (which I think was a road for vehicles as opposed to pedestrians), I saw a few (maybe 3 or 4) of remaining townsfolk that stayed behind in case there was any stragglers like myself. I remember there were yellow string or rope the length of the alley for the event of the water level rose. I glanced behind me to see if the couple were still there, they were, since I still had one of their items. I saw where we were just at, a small group of maybe high schoolers, they wore a school uniform, trying to cross but that section of the road turned into a shallow rapid, maybe up to the thighs or waist. Remember, the flood lines were still there so they could follow it to get to the alley I was at. In front of me, where the townsfolk were at, there was a set of stairs under an archway. The impression I got was that was the safety threshold, so if you could get there, that was cleared from the flooding. But, I woke up here
