Finger Mullet - Dream

I was at our old home on Summerland Key, FL in the back yard. The house was on a canal in which I would catch bait ( finger mullet) with my cast net. Mom and Dad were sitting on the boat and watching me cast my net to catch bait. Dad said “You never catch any fish with that bait, why do you bother?” I said “You’ve eaten AND enjoyed the fish that I have caught with this bait” Dad got mad at me and came after me. I jumped in the water and let my cast net sink to the bottom. I swam away from him. Then I woke up.

Lot-O-Hooks - Dream

In this dream my parents owned a house on a beach somewhere. Every night we would take walks on the beach and enjoy the sunset. The tide was out this evening and a private dock/pier was totally exposed underneath. I could see many fishing hooks stuck under the dock that were still in good condition. I had my fishing pliers with me in shorts and proceeded to cut the fishing line that bound the hooks to the dock. This took sometime but I eventually had removed all the hooks. I reached the end of the pier closest to the beach to find about 20 chartreuse bomber lures all in pristine condition hooked to the bottom of the pier. I thought to myself “wow, I’ve hit the jackpot!” I carefully unhooked the lures from the dock and put them in a bucket I was using to haul the hooks. My parents had since headed back to the house as their neighbor was putting on a play for them.

I walk past where the play is going on to find that it was over. The playwright had some comments for me in the credits that I saw as I walked by the outdoor stage area. Mom and Dad were watching the credits. I could tell that she was mad at me, so I kept on walking to the house.

When I arrived, my brother and Adrian, a kid we knew in the Keys, were there washing dishes. I went around the back of the house near the pool to drop off my bucket and entered the rear of the house through the sliding glass doors. Adrian handed me a small white net as I walked in the door. I promptly inspected the net and dropped it into the hook bucket.

Shortly thereafter Mom and Dad came home arguing as they walked in the front door.

That’s when I woke up…. Right around the time when the cat puked on the floor and Carol rose to clean it. I think that was around 3:11 am.