In the first dream, I'm swimming in the ocean off the Kansas City coast. I decide to see how far out I can swim. I swim out quite some way, and try to swim back to the coast. I lose my orientation and am unable to find the coast. I notice the St. Louis arch behind me. Another swimmer is in the water near me. He says "Wow, you almost made it to St. Louis."

(what?)

I got home after a fairly late night out. I taken a nap before going out and drank a cup of coffee at a 24 hour diner before getting home, so I had a bit of trouble getting to sleep. Eventually I did.

I remember the dream starting as I'm some sort of coast, waiting to board a gondola which goes miles out over the ocean, presumably towards an island of some sort. We all board the gondola and it heads out. We're riding on the gondola when it starts to get somewhat windy, and the gondola is blown around on its wire. I'm looking out the front when I see a sign saying "No Anti-Sway Bar next fifteen stations". As we pass the sign, the gondola begins swaying so violently that I'm having a hard time standing up.

I immediately realize that there are no sides or bottom to the gondola, just a mesh of pipes that I'm precariously balanced on. I also notice that we are very high up above the water. I'm deathly afraid of heights, so I drop to the bars I'm standing on and hold on with my arms. I'm absolutely terrified, but I hang on and count the stations we pass. Finally we pass fifteen, and pull into a landing, where I assume we are supposed to transfer to a different gondola that will take us to our final destination.

As we get off our gondola, I notice that the transfer station is very crowded, and hear a female voice saying "Just open the god-damned safe!" I quickly figure out that the transfer station is being robbed. I'm not particularly scared, but we all get off the gondola and attempt to stay out of the way.

I end up heading to the stairs going down to the second gondola. The transfer station is very crowded, I assume because it has two gondolas full of traffic in it when the first group should be gone. I'm waiting on the stairs looking for a chance to attempt to grab the gun from one of the women, in the hope that the other people at the station will then jump the other and we can disarm the robbers. The two women robbing the station are upstairs and need to go down. The stairs are fairly small, but I smash myself into the corner to allow them to go by.

The first woman is very thin and walks by me with no problem and head downstairs. The second woman is covering me as the first passes, so I don't make any attempt at her gun. The second woman is more full-figured, and has trouble getting by me on her way down the stairs. Visibly annoyed, after she has passed me, she quickly turns towards me and fires, hitting me in the pelvic bone on the left side. The pain is intense, and I wake up almost immediately. After waking up, I can still feel the wound for a few seconds.