I am walking through a town I understand to be town I work in - but it looks different. There is a wide, shallow river that runs beside the road. In the dream, the town is the highest point in the state. There is a ratty looking white building with a small brass plaque indicating the high water mark. Because I know this is the spot of highest elevation in the state, I understand that this high water mark is not just the high mark for that town or that river, but for the entire state. I think that's really cool. I also briefly consider that for this building in the highest town to be partially under water, the entire state would be under water. That's interesting. I don't remember that every happening, but neat!
The river is about as wide as a football field and is so shallow that you can see the texture of the rock under the water. There is one area where there is a little waterfall and at the base of the waterfall the water is a little bit deeper. A lot of logs and sticks collect in this area and I sit down on some boulders between the road and the river to watch it go by.
A man appears with his son - a four year old. The man and the boy both have extremely bright blue eyes. The man has brown hair with some gray sprinkled in, the boy has bright blonde hair. The man sees me looking out at the river and he says, "You know, we we saw a mermaid over there." He points to an area of the river where the water swirls around. I think this is a line of conversation for the child's entertainment/enchantment, so I play along and we talk about river mermaids. I stand up from the boulder and brush salt off my hands and clothes. He comments that this river is particularly unusual because it is a salt water river - and that must be what attracts the mermaids.
The man tells me that his name is Virgin Matthew Ginn. I've never heard a name like that before, but it makes sense - it's like naming someone Jean Baptiste. I don't know if this man is particularly devout, but I know his first name is a reference to Mary, and I think it's intriguing that this man has such an unusual first name.
Later in the dream we are in the old house of the woman who used to babysit Anne, Michelle, and I. She wasn't home and I was alone in the kitchen with Virgin Matthew. I tried to remember why I was there and why I was alone with this man. In the way of dreams where you find yourself suddenly plopped into situations without knowing what decisions brought you there, I tried to figure out what was going on and how this had come to be. Virgin Matthew was handsome, kind, and mysterious. It dawned on me that I must have allowed myself to be put in this position because I found him attractive. At that moment, I thought of my husband and saw the peril I was in. I knew I had to immediately tell Virgin Matthew that I am happily married and even just being in a suspicious situation with another man could hurt my husband and damage my marriage. I had to remedy the situation immediately!
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