Last night I had trouble sleeping. It was probably some residual jet lag. I passed the time in the middle of the night by reading A Man in Full. The chapters were both stressful because I had gotten to the point in the book when everyone's life is falling apart. One guy had a bad day where he got towed and ended up killing someone in the towing lot because he was so frustrated. When I finally got back to sleep I had a dream where I was looking at a lake and I noticed that at night a large dog looking like a dalmation was sleeping at the top of the water a few inches beneath the surface. I wondered how this made sense and then saw other dogs sleeping beneath the surface. The next morning in the dream I went back to look at the lake and could see through the port hole clearly down to the bottom. The dogs were diving down to where other intact animals like cows, pigs, and horses were corpses at the base of the lake and the dogs feeding off of them throughout the day. I then looked to the edge of the lake where I saw a gigantic snapping turtle that was beyond dinosaur scale. It had a long neck about four feet in diameter and rather than having one oval plate it had a series of them fused together to form six figure eight like indentations in a giant shell. The snapping turtle was reaching its long neck into the water to eat the carcasses at the bottom of the lake.

It also reminded me of a dream that I had a few days ago. I was with Madeline and her adopted brother at a playground. I looked away for a moment and both of them were missing. I looked throughout the area and couldn't find them. When I asked people if they had seen either they said they had but not recently. I awoke in a sweat with a giant adrenaline rush when I realized that they must have been abducted.

These dreams seem to be new and possibly related to the rewiring of becoming a parent. One more obvious in its relationship than the other.