On Wednesday, November 3, 2004 I had the following dream.
A young child approached me with a small, transparent cup that looked somewhat worn and used. The cup had a small amount of water in it with a tiny ice chip. The child asked me if I wanted some of it. I looked at the cup and thought that it appeared to have been used before, so I had some hesitancy about drinking from something that someone else had possibly drank from; I also thought it was kind of a funny little container but felt that it was important to this child to take a sip from the cup. You could tell, just by looking at the cup itself, that not many would be willing to drink from it. I responded, "Sure, I'll drink from your cup". When I did it was the sweetest water I have ever tasted. Unbelievable! I can still taste it in my mouth.
The next thing that happens is I am walking with my daughter and see the streets are flooded with defiled water. I don't even know how or what we were walking on but somehow we were able to walk along and just look at the water around us without getting wet or being touched by it. The water was flooding the streets and it was filled with sewage and dogs that were drowning in it and yet they were seemingly unaware they were dying in it - they were not attempting, or struggling, to get out. My attention was drawn by a splashing sound and I looked further down the street and saw a houseboat which appeared to have been ripped off it's moorings in the flood; the ramp was floating out extended. I heard more splashing coming from near the front of the houseboat, then a man popped his head out of the water. He was very upset and was spitting sewage out of his mouth, swearing and angry that it was in the water. His son ran from the back of the houseboat and asked the dad why he had jumped into the water cause it was so dirty - it was apparent the dad had just wanted to go for a swim and didn't recognize the state of the water prior to jumping in. The streets were being flooded with this filthy water and no one seemed aware of it. There was a false sense of peace and of calm. Even the flood waters were not 'raging' they looked peaceful but they were everywhere.
I kept walking and found myself, with my daughter, on a street overlooking a valley with houses beneath it - the street was surrounded by a white fence with a gate. The waters were rising, I knew they were going to come and flood the whole of the valley below. I saw a house which I thought I recognized as one we had stayed in temporarily when we were moving houses - I asked my daughter to go check it out and make sure that my husband was not still in it. She did - he was not there - I knew he was safe. I was told to go to the higher ground and there we would find clean water. Before I left that spot, I adjusted and turned two of the railings as though it was necessary to do this. It did not make any sense to me while I watched myself do this in the dream, after all it was not as if this adjustment would be able to ward off any flood waters.
When I arrived at the higher ground where I had been told I would find clean water I found a rackety old kind of country store - the type that would carry everything in it. When I saw it I was concerned that with the size of the store (it was small) there may not be any water left because the demand for it would be high in this crisis. I went in and realized there were others in there. Some women had come to shop around but they were down an aisle of dry goods and other merchandise, they were happy with what they had found; there were men sitting at a table at the back of the store near the counter and right beside them was an upright cooler/fridge with bottles of pure water in it. The men seated at the table were drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes and when I went to get a bottle of water they just looked at me as though I was strange. I picked up a small bottle considering I had little money and I realized that because there was no other clean water around it would be very expenseive. However, when I went to pay, I could hardly believe the cost, it was so low - an unbelievable price. Since the price was so low I put the little bottle back and found the biggest bottle I could find because we were going to need it with the water situation; I was even able to purchase a small food item (like an energy bar) for my daughter. Then out of no where the same child from the beginning of the dream, who had given me this wonderful water, walks by. I was so happy to see the child because I then realized this was where the water in the cup had come from. I was delighted in the dream, that the cost was little for this unbelievable sweet, yet pure water and could hardly believe that no one seemed to be buying it. The water was being GIVEN away for next to nothing in the midst of a major water crisis where there was no PURE WATER available anywhere except in this one location.
