Sea

This is my picture for Illustration Friday. The theme is Sea. "Sea" was drawn on a scrap of multi-purpose copy paper then colored and cleaned up in Photoshop. I have always been a vivid dreamer. The Sea is one of the prominent elements in about 80% of the dreams I remember. Somebody once told me the sea in your dreams represents knowledge.

About ten years ago I spent a month at this funky little hotel in Seoul. At the time I was doing a lot of soul searching and I had a string of wacky dreams while staying there. One dream started with Satan and me standing on a cliff overlooking the sea. Satan asked if the sea scared me. I told him it was only knowledge and there was nothing to be afraid of. So he snapped his fingers and I was suddenly out in the middle of the ocean in a tiny boat.

Satan hovered over me and laughing he said, "Are you scared now"?

"No!" I said mocking him.

Satan snapped his fingers again and the boat disappeared. "Have fun!" He laughed and vanished.

I sank to the sea floor and started walking. Eventually I reached the shore. As I walked up onto the beach the Red Hot Chili Peppers were standing there. Flea looked at me and said, "Hurry up we need a drummer."

Then they took off running down this path into the woods. I ran after them. When I got deep into the woods I dropped this crystal I had been carrying. I turned around to pick it up and when I stood up again everyone was gone. I started to panic because both ends of the trail looked the same and I couldn't remember which way I was headed. There was a giggle behind me. I whirled around and a smiley Tibetan Monk is staring at me. "What's wrong?" He asks.

"I'm lost." I reply.

"Silly boy." The monk says to me. "You're not lost you're on the path." Then he laughed and was gone.

Then I started to laugh. I was still laughing when I woke up.

I suppose there is a lot of symbolism in that dream or maybe I just had too much Kimchi before going to bed.