Water Polo

Date: 1/20/2022

This dream was so long and deep. The first part I can remember, I am in school getting my courses. I get signed up for a water Polo class that is very expressive and dancey, like a creative expression, pool activity...class. So the whole time I feel quite disconnected from engaging with school itself, I feel shy and different. Shawn Wilson is there at one point and we have an interaction where he seems shy too. I go to a specific class to buy my goggles for the class, the usual ones have one blue glass and one red and surround the eye, the person in the shop shows me the ones they have and they are all so unique and different but I just want the ones that everyone else is using (fitting in). So I go about multiple days in this massive, modern school. My first water polo class we get in the water and do drills, swimming for exercise. Something unique about the class is the teacher would come to your current classroom and tell you that it was time for this class (personal interest). I would move through the motions. At one point a boy came up to me and said it must be hard to get to know me because I'm so closed off. I was flattered just by the fact that someone saw me clearly but he said it while walking by in a crowd and was gone. We were headed to the first expressive water polo high school game. The game was between two teams and they were picked by the teacher, maybe 6 people each. There was the first half which was a real water polo game and then it was judged and then the dance portion where there would be plexy glass over the pool and they had to do moves to music. Each person was judged individually and the area was absolutely PACKED, like a huge party. Me and the rest of our class and the coach/teacher were up in a pod high above the pool, along with members of the other team's class and teachers. I was trying to think of how I could get out of ever having to perform. The teacher saw me as I was commenting and said that I would be up next week but it's good to have fair warning to prepare! Now I'm in the small pod with just guys and they're talking about drugs and movies and internet jokes, I'm just sort of chillin. They offer me the joint but I pass. I'm really disconnected and trying to keep my head above the social waters of this dream. I wonder why there are no buzzers between classes and am aware that I have been missing all of my classes except for Polo because our awesome teacher actually comes to get us. I feel inadequate and lost. Another part of the dream there is a big plant in the middle of my house, I put it in some water and it goes all limp, so I take it out of the water and the next time I'm in the room is is blooming with massive white flowers! This is connected to my sister somehow, I think it's her plant. Also a small part where I have teeny tiny miniature books and I'm setting them up, just so, on my night stand. Another part, I am walking through the school and there are these cool people who seem to be overwhelmed too. They are sitting at a bar in the "school" and having some drinks. I sit with them and can see how I can connect with them but I don't actually feel connected, they talk about parties and different things. Another part Alicia McCarvel and her husband are there (this is before the game) and we're talking and laughing together. I really like them and I can tell she likes me but then they start making out, she gives me normal person turns famous vibes. The end