I had the strangest dream. I was on a boat, which seemed a bit like a cruise ship and a bit like a floating town. I've never been on a large ship before, but I do know they don't move fast when it comes to turning etc.
At some point it seemed like perhaps it was a Down syndrome group meeting as there were lots of kids there and some adults who had Down syndrome. There were grand stairwells, people chatting and eating and enjoying themselves. Then I was in a house and Leslie (Colburn) was telling me that her doctor told her she better hope she's having a boy because she just wouldn't be a good mother for a girl. He had also offered to abort her baby should it prove to be a girl. I was really put out when she told me the news and told her she should file a formal complaint with the hospital's ethics board. I also told her that I knew of someone else that had happened to and just couldn't believe there was more than one doctor out there who was A: telling women they would have a difficult time parenting female children, and B: was making offers to abort a child simply for lacking a Y-chromosome. *somehow my conscious brain is tying this in to the fact that all doctors seem willing to abort, and even recommend termination to mothers who find out their child has other chromosomal differences.* It is a very blatant and misinformed prejudice.
So the boat ride goes on...the driver of the boat decides to make a few turns. The front end of the boat lifted and we spun around so quickly people were falling down and having to hold on to keep from sliding toward the rear of the boat.
Gemma was swimming in a little kid pool with a life vest, Aaron was with her. There were other kids in there as well. At some point I wound up in the upstairs of an old farmhouse while still on the boat. There were 2 adults with Ds who were naked and expressed their intent to have sex with one another. I told them that what they chose to do was private, but they needed to go into a private room and not become physical with one another while in the view of everyone.
So, I was going down the stairs and I said hello to Marica Golibiewski who passed away a couple years ago. She was doing well and enjoying her cruise.
I walked up a hall with purple carpet ant gold railings, there were rooms off to both sides which resembled casino areas and restaurants. All of the sudden I'm dizzy as hell, the boat is up on it's end and spinning to go back the way we came from. I hear the captain giving orders to someone that he wants every one on the ship killed with the exception of those with Ds, and those who are not carrying on screaming. I clearly remember him saying, "Even the sailors" as well...as if it were a Navy ship we'd borrowed for the cruise.
I went up on deck to get some air, I saw the captain of the ship sitting on a perch on the top center. He looked at me and I said, Wow, this boat seems so enormous and elegant while you're downstairs...how does it seems so little from here? (It looked like a 35-40ft cabin cruiser from on deck) He asked if I was upset about it. He continued to talk and I continued to try to play it cool as the boat went sailing down they equivalent of white water rapids with large rounded sides like a water slide. I'm pretty sure he wanted to decapitate me as we started down a set of locks that had beams from a railroad tressel over head. Each time we'd go airborne over a level I'd have to duck my head into the crashing water. When we got to the bottom there were 3 women standing there who appeared to be from the 80's. I was out of the boat and we were talking about kids. I went to find Gemma, and as soon as I went to pick her up she grabbed a worm off the ground and put it in her mouth. I tried to get it out, but she had bitten it in half and ate a small piece of it. "/ That's all I can remember now, my brain has already put the soft fuzz around the edges of the dream.
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