DREAM DREAM AGAIN

I was on a battle ship and it was pitch black outside, the ocean was dark, and we were at war, it was the Austrians vs the Japanese.  I don't know which i was, I must have been Austrian.  I remember being in a hidden passage under a stairway in the bowels of the ship and the room was stuffed to the brim with porcelain pugs and porcelain courtiers with parasols and porcelain babies.  My mother was there, I was a child in this dream and she asked, "why are all the sculptures in here?" and I responded. "so they don't get broken by the bombs."  Everything in the dream was lit by dim lamps.   There were weird scenes where we were battling with distant lights from the Japanese ships across a span of water but the 'bombs' looked a lot like fireworks.  The deck of the ship kept dipping into the water and it would spill over the rails, which was terrifying.  Everybody was dressed in Victorian clothing, or sort of Edwardian, and then some important head of state was coming aboard and we all had to pretend that we were not at war so all the best decorations got put out, and everything looked like versailles, and it was all chandelierrey and I was with a maid who was being very clingy and I looked over this balcony in the ship's ballroom and my mom was all alone on this couch in the center of the ballroom below us and i told the maid I had to go help my mom convince the colonel that we were not at war, that she couldn't do that alone.

DREAMS, I always always dream about water, I was on a steam-boat in a dream from a week ago, and its often pitch black...darker than it ever is naturally, spooky...I feel like this might be me missing true darkness or true night because the minneapolis sky at night is always that damned purple color.