fieldofdepth

I am driving home on a humid night, watching the sunset spill these amazing colors onto the sky as the sun just begins to dissapear behind the horizon. I am speeding home down a winding, deserted, one lane road in hopes of making it home in time to get some good pictures. Then, suddenly the road dead ends into a lake that I swear wasn't there before. I get out of the car, still watching the light show in the night sky. As my steps take me closer to the water I can just make out a shape of some kind floating at the waters edge. It seems to be tangled. It is a child's car seat. And it has a baby in it. The baby is not crying, it is terror stricken and trying to keep it's head above the water as the snakes slither around it's body. I see a pair of scissors and a pocket knife on the sand where, apparently someone has tried and failed to rescue the child. I opt for a more direct method and reach into the muddy water, passed the vines and water snakes, grab the seat and pull it free from it's entanglement. I drag it away from the water and cut the child loose from it's watery restraints only to realize that it's a doll.
Then, all at once I am at home. I'm washing the doll in the bathtub. It turns into a real baby again and it scares me so much that I wake myself up in a panic and run to the bathroom. My girlfriend is in there fixing her hair for work. It is dress down day and she is wearing denim Dickie shorts and a patriotic T-shirt. She looks really cute and I want to smack her ass but I don't. She hates it when I smack her ass. I sit down to pee, and I tell her about my dream; some of which I have forgotten by now.
She looks at me in the mirror and her reflection says, "You have weird dreams baby."
I smile and go back to bed, but have a hard time getting comfortable.