Houses on the water

Date: 9/17/2016

In this dream I was in a wide bay on the east coast of the US protected from the ocean by a narrow, high sand bar. Pirate style ships were present in large quantity and there was one aircraft carrier that didn't actually enter the bay but moved about slowly just past the sand bar. Within the bay there was a disorganized collection of houses that floated on the water - these weren't houseboats, but rather one and two story homes painted in pale blue and other pastel colors which floated still level atop the mostly still water. Some of them were connected by docks and each had a segment of dock directly before them so that one could dock a boat there in order to float along with the house wherever it drifted in the bay. My parents, siblings, and I were on vacation here and I had to swim from one home's small dock to another as I did not have a boat. Inside the homes were small and quaint in a good sort of way and had a feeling almost of belonging to a grandmother or a middle-aged aunt. Many of the windows had boxes of flowers beneath them and there were small bushy gardens between the house and the narrow sidewalk of a dock. The docks were made, it seemed to me, of the palates used at department stores and I received many splinters from climbing upon them. There were dangerous creatures in the water but they took no interest in me and I felt comforted by this as normally I am so afraid of large, natural bodies of water. Near the end of the dream I felt I was running both from something and toward a thing for which I was late. I fell asleep while swimming in this dream and woke up in another dream exhausted and realizing I had been running from people aboard a boat and toward a dock where my family waited for me because my dad had decided we would go to Paris completely without warning or preparation -- which is where I was when I woke within the dream.