Dream Journal Ultimate
Date: 4/15/2026
By lucysdreams
I dreamt that I was visiting an underwater city set up entirely for diving and free diving. There were various shops, a town square and I was vaguely aware that I might be on an excursion of some sort, where I was probably the teacher and responsible for students. There was even an underwater road that led off into the distance of the ocean, ultimately probably coming to shore. This concerned me as I saw a truck driving down it as they’d cleared huge amounts of coral away from the seabed in order to make this road. I went exploring and saw multiple sharks. First I ran into a hammerhead and a tiger shark, both of which I was pretty comfortable with and caused no real stress. I had a floating mesh daybed which kept you in the water but let you catch your breath floating on the surface, as I was free diving. As I dove down to go under a tunnel through the wide grand gates of the city centre (it looked like the colosseum) I saw a slight commotion happening inside. There was a large great white shark that had drifted inside. The woman in front of me continued into the square but as the great white dove down too I thought it might be smarter to give us some space and go backwards. I swum out of the gate only to realise that it has followed me out. It approaches me and I do my best to remain still and stop swimming, but I’m very deep underwater without real weights. I’m a little worried about triggering its predator instinct by swimming away from it and I’d rather let it move on from me and lose interest, but I’m running out of air in my lungs. I eventually have to make my ascent (as slow as possible) because my lungs feel like they’re about to burst, and it does follow me upwards. I don’t like having to stick my head above the water to breathe, and leave this world behind for a second especially because I can’t watch the shark beneath me. I take a breath, stick my head back under as the shark brushes up against my legs. It doesn’t take an exploratory bite, instead it swims away and I can suddenly appreciate how beautiful and gentle it really was before swimming back into the city centre to share what happened.