Last night I had a really strange dream that I absolutely cannot decode, which is even stranger than the norm.
I was on a pier, with my camera, when I see his little boy maybe 3 or 4 years old playing with an older boy in the ocean, along a pier. They could be brothers. I snap a picture of them laughing, but awkwardly because my purple flash went off (rather, the flash produced a purple powder residue that filled the air a bit) and called their attention.
Next thing I know, it’s night time and there are fireworks and I’m taking pictures of the fireworks (and there’s a tutorial going on in my head where this lady is explaining how people normally take pictures straight into the light and how a good photographer knows to zoom out and take a picture within context… oO) and I pan back around to eye level and see that the teenage boy is hurt and that the small boy is trying to prop him up on a bench… The little boy sees me and sees me staring, so he comes over to me, not saying anything. I quickly delete a photo that I had just took of him and his brother and show him the one from earlier. I push the camera in his direction showing him the screen saying “look it’s you.” And he just keeps shaking his head and I keep urging him and insisting that it’s him. All the while, his brother is dying and I look down at the picture and sure enough, the little boy isn’t in the picture. In his place is another boy, bout the same age as his brother, but laughing just as much. They look happy.
I look back over to the older brother and he takes his last breath. In my head, all I can think about is how I regret deleting that last photograph of him and his brother moments before he died…
The little boy disappears somewhere and comes back to shore with a large flounder that he caught from the ocean. He puts it on a bed of ice and a man (I suppose his dad) is calling him to come with him. He refuses and sort of puts of a tantrum and eventually breaks down crying. The fish dies, too.
I tried looking this dream up, but can’t figure it out for the LIFE of me. I wonder if I’m missing something…