Martian Summer

Date: 7/14/2016

Mars is a re-occouring location in my dreams. specifically a place with a giant red sandstone butte. The landscape immediately surrounding the butte is flat and barren, and slopes upwards a few hundred yards like a basin into craggy bluffs. Beyond that is open, endless desert and canyon lands to the southwest. A dam exist somewhere southwest down a path leading out of the butte basin. I've been there in another dream in which I arrived at the butte for the first time. There were futuristic soldiers there in a convoy the first time. In my dream last night, I was with one other person that I can't remember now and I climbed to the top of the butte. I don't remember most of it, but I do remember searching around the bottom for a pass to the top. The bottom is heavily eroded and creates a 12 foot overhang which provides shade as I walk around the base. After searching around at the bottom, the next thing I remember is the last moments of my ascent to the top. I had indeed found a route up and was climbing up a final boulder to the summit. I remember feeling exhilaration. From there the dream comes back in pieces. At some point an elderly woman told me it was summer. There was water on Mars, and I remember looking out over a large body of water with the elderly woman. Later, I was sailing alone and felt a mix of excitement and fear. Sailing is another re-occurring element in my dreams. This was the first time sailing on Mars and I was scared of what was beneath me in the sea, yet excited for the chance to explore untouched shores.