saving a child as a shark/reprimanded/attacking owls
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I was at Nick's house and we were supposed to be leaving for Scotland the next day. Nick's mum wanted to have a bbq and we needed to pack our suitcases but I really wanted to go to an art class with Nick. We were trying to convince Nick's parents we'd have time to do it all and eventually the agreed to drive us over.
Once we got to the college the class was at, the art class morphed into a swimming lesson and Nick wasn't there anymore. In the swimming lesson, people in the class were large sea animals when they were in the water and there were young children in the swimming pool. I became a shark in the water. The swimming lesson was about saving the children from drowning. A child near me started to drown and after a moment of hesitation, because I wasn't quite sure what to do, I dove down to save the child and lifted it up to the surface on my snout.
The class teacher started to shout at me, saying that I should have alerted others the child needed saving, not tried to save it myself. In the exercise sharks were not supposed to save the children. He suggested that I had caused to child to drown myself and had wanted to harm it. He told me to get out the class and not to come back again.
I felt humiliated and upset that I'd been expelled from the class and I was feeling hurt and empathy for myself because I knew that it was a risk and a brave thing for me to go to the class because of my social anxiety. I felt afraid and embarrassed that others would be disappointed for me when I told them it hadn't gone well.
I walked through another swimming room to get to the changing rooms and there were physically disabled people in the class. I remember thinking the people in the class seemed much more peaceful and accepting and feeling a positive energy from them.
I went into the changing room and it was dark in there as though it was outside in the night-time (although it was indoors). No one else was there and there were owls flying in the room swooping at me. I started to get undressed and an owl flew at my face trying to attack me. I lit some kind of flare because my intuition told me the owls were afraid of light and then I went over to the light switch and turned the light on.
The rest of the swimming class came into the changing room and started getting dressed too. I saw that two girls next to me were doing a physics assignment. I became afraid I'd been supposed to do the assignment too so I asked them if I could see what the exercise was. I copied it down quickly and started trying to do the assignment.
One of the girls looked over with a look of horror on her face and said I was doing it completely wrong. My 'graph' was inverted and my logic was wrong. The teacher came over and looked shocked that my 'logic could be so inverted'. I started to cry and shouted that I was doing my best and that it wasn't easy as I had been depressed and socially phobic until recently. The teacher looked worried she'd upset me so much and said I probably shouldn't have come to the class at all if I had those issues. I cried and left the room and went looking for a dr/therapist upstairs in a building that was a little like my old school.
Nick rang me on my mobile and asked me were I was and said I had to come quickly because his dad had come to pick us up and was waiting in the parking lot. I tried to explain I needed to see a dr but Nick said I couldn't do that because his dad was waiting. I felt upset and said I'd be there soon.
Then real life Nick came into the room to wake me up (I thought he was dream-nick and said 'yes, yes, I just called you to say I was coming!' and then I woke up.
Additional Comments:
*attacking owls are a recurring theme at the moment
