Whacky beach

In my dream last night, my family and I were walking to a beach to go swimming. To get to it we were walking across a large concrete road/bridge thing. We got towards the end of it and it made a sharp 90 degree turn but the road was angle downwards. (Basically if you followed the angle you'd walk right off the bridge.) I went towards the edge to get a view of the beach and realized that we were around 300 feet up in the air. (The number 326 comes to mind.)


The beach was almost directly below us but we'd have to snake around the down part of the bridge to get there. From this height I was able to notice that the beach's interesting shape.

The beach was a giant U shape but in the middle of the U there was a huge sandbar with a very steep angle which created something like a "3rd" beach in the middle of this odd little "bay".

As I was checking out the beach I lost my footing and fell. As I was falling I realized that I needed to stop myself cause hitting the water would be deadly at this height so I grabbed rafters as I flew past them, eventually I was able to slow my descent enough that I could actually grab hold of one of the rafters and stop myself about 20 feet from the water. After getting a good grip, I let go and dropped the rest of the way down.

I then looked up and realized that my wife was tossing the kids down after me cause I guess she thought I had jumped on purpose! As soon as they hit the water I dived after them and pulled them all to shore. They were fine and had thought it was fun. (No way in real life, my eldest is very scared of heights. She'd have been in tears to be dropped from any height.)

After this, we swam for a little while but the beach was insanely crowded so we decided to see if we could find a more secluded spot.

We ended up walking through this boardwalk/mall type place that was right up against the beach. It had restaurants and business offices and tourist shops in it that were a big giant maze. At one point I found myself in the restaurant trying to figure out how to get around the tables and back out. I finally found a door but it lead to an atrium, which only had doors back into the restaurant or this little research office.

I vaguely remember finally finding my wife and kids again, and some more swimming and talking to a researcher but its all fuzzy.

A full night of dreaming...

Dream #1
For some reason this guy called me up and asked me if I wanted to run for sheriff. I said "Sure, why not." and went to bed.

I had barely fallen asleep when the guy called back to say that as of right now I had won. They were counting the last of the votes by I was way ahead of the others.

I was, of course, shocked.

My wife and I then sat around in bed talking about what choice I should make. If we should stay here in California or move to Oregon still (we are planning to move to Oregon in real life). I pictured myself as a sheriff and saw the image of me with short hair and a cop mustache in uniform. Ack.

Dream #2? (Not sure if this wasn't part of one of the other dreams)
A friend of mine was in a salon getting his hair put into dread locks so I decided to join him and get cornrows, but the salon person didn't know how to do "regular" corn rows as he called them. I looked at his head and sure enough his were weird. They were sorta cornrows down at his scalp and across the top of each row he had really long hair that was in dreads but rubber banded to the "corn row" below it.

Dream #3
In this dream, a bunch of people and I were being forced to walk along this strange metal building structure thru a series of stairs and corridors. After awhile it hit me that this did not look like it was going somewhere I wanted to be. So I started letting myself fall further and further back in the group.

At some point I ducked into a side corridor and started searching for a way out. I knew that the stairs leading up eventually got somewhere bad so I was searching for stairs leading down, but couldn't find any. I kept finding up stairs until I hit a point where there was a really ominous sign saying something like "research point here". I knew that if I went that way I was dead, but by now there was a robotic guard following me. I looked around and jumped over the stairs railing into a corridor below and found stairs leading down so I took them hoping that I had lost the guard.

The corridor I ran into was dirty and rusty and there were weird goblin like creatures where metal standing around. I changed my pace to walking and hoped they would think I was supposed to be there. One of them walked up to me and pointed this long gun at me that looked like a 3 inch wide and 2.5 foot long pipe with a gun handle. The goblins were only about 3.5 feet tall so he jabbed it up at my chest and muttered something. At the second jab, I snatched it from his hands turned it around and fired it into his chest. It had very little kick and shot out several pellets that ripped a wide pattern into him. He fell and gurgled a little.

I immediately turned and started shooting all the goblins as fast as I could. Figuring I was running out of ammo I grabbed a second pipe gun and started to walk away when I noticed the robot guard had found me. I fired a couple shots, but the were to weak to even faze it. I started running.

Once again I was going upwards, but this time at the edge of this strange structure. I made it to the top of a wall when I realized it was some kind of floating fortress. As far as the eye could see was water. I turned to find I was surrounded by robotic guards.

This voice started talking to me from some speakers. It started monologuing about its evil plan. Basically it had found a way to create a world wide flood so it decided to do it, but to feed itself it had fooled the governments into using its brainwashing program to make people "good little citizens" but what it was really doing was dehydrating the bodies for food storage. At this point I knew I was a goner anyway so I jumped off the side of the fortress and into the water.

When I hit the water the proportions were all wrong. It was like the fortress was no larger than one of those super dump trucks with the 10 foot tall tires. I swam under it and found this weird buoyant netting was keeping it afloat. I hid under it for awhile wondering if I had to worry about sharks. The water was so diluted that it barely even tasted salty, so I figured I wouldn't have to worry about water at least.

Then I saw them. Caught up in this net were strange looking stick figures. I realized after a second that these must be the dehydrated humans.

At this point, the dehydrated people were partially released from the net, I can't recall if I did it or the thing did it to try to drown me. But I was lost in a sea of people struggling to get back to the surface when the dream ended.

Dream #4 (This may have been the beginning the last dream, not sure)
I was in my van driving around trying to find some place but the road was very confusing. It kept splitting up and forcing you to turn into this side street looking thing to stay on the main street and at one point I somehow got confused and ended up going the wrong way on a one way. So to get my bearings I pulled over backwards on the one way and got out of the van, but somehow where I got out I had to walk thru a parking garage of a hotel I had passed earlier, which told me that I was indeed lost cause I had gone in a circle. The parking garage had cryptic fencing and it took me several minutes to get out of it. I finally found a small passage that lead to the hotel store and left out the hotel store's front door. When I got out I was looking around and realized that my van was just in front of the hotel, so I started walking towards it and now it wasn't surrounded by a fence.

I don't recall going any further in this dream, but I vaguely seem to recall the line at the fortress started as a line with cars in it. I'm not really sure.