What are seal dreams about?

I'm running through a jungle with a brown snake wrapped around me, his head above my right shoulder. We are speaking, but this doesn't seem strange at all. We're laughing and joyful, having a complete blast. Although this first part of the dream is harder to remember, we're basically going through this jungle with the snake teaching me how to swap conciousnesses with different animals. This is to teach me the "lessons" and physical experiences of different creatures while allowing them to spend time as a human to better understand us as well.

We emerge from the jungle and find ourselves looking across a vast grassland. To our side, following along the treeline, is an elephant. This elephant is barely touching the ground with its tiptoes, flapping its big ears and traveling in strangely graceful, gliding hops. Sharing a conspiratorial glance, the snake and I take off toward the pachyderm. Throwing a startled glance over its shoulder, the elephant flees. We take off in hot pursuit!

We're led on a long merry chase, until we finally catch up to him in a dilapidated amusement park. The rides are covered in rust and overgrown with creepers. The elephant heads straight for a small, stagnant puddle in an area of broken concrete. To my amazement, he executes a graceful swan dive right into this shallow puddle and disappears. I run up to the edge of the puddle before hitting my belly and shimmying close enough to peer in. Under the shallow green water is a perfectly circular hole that leads down deep into darkness. As I press my face closer trying to get a look at what's in there, the large gray head of a seal pops out. His penetrating, inky eyes unnerve me, and I scramble back.

His head disappears back into the water just as I hear a creepy little girl giggle behind me. Turning around, I see a girl of about 6 in an old fashioned frilly dress cupping something in her hands. When I ask her what she's got, she opens her hands and holds them up to me, still giggling. In her palms is my friend, the brown snake. He's been chopped into little slices that look like sushi roll pieces. In the center of each piece, there is an eye staring up at me, moving around. I shove the girl away in horror and start screaming "What have you done?" I tell her we were going to bring him back to life after the body swap, but now we can't, she's ruined it. I keep insisting we (I'm not sure who I meant when I kept saying we ) were bringing him back to life and am very distraught. She regards me calmly before adopting the creepiest condescending smirk. She looks me right in the eyes and says, "That's not what you were doing at all, was it?"

I wake in a cold sweat. I mean, seriously, wtf!!! This has got to be the most bizarre dream I've ever had.

I woke up with this dream still very vivid in my head.

In the dream, my girlfriend and I were on a cruise of some type. The ship was smaller than those massive cruise ships, more like a large yacht. We anchored way off shore so far out we couldn't see land. A couple of seals were playing around the boat. Some people from the boat decided to swim for a bit, including my girlfriend and I.

We were swimming maybe ten or fifteen feet off the side of the boat, the others were on the other side of the boat so it was just her and I. She was swimming away from the boat, I was closer to the boat, when I thought I saw a *massive* shadow under the water. I wasn't sure it was real, but I told her to get out. She asked why, I told her "just do it" and we both got out. Sure enough, it was an enormous great white shark. The boat captain said it was the largest one ever recorded.

What's it mean?

Had a dream last light where I walked into a counter to buy (or pick up) something, but then I noticed there was a small coin. I t was greenish silver (and actually had some black around it, indicating it was actually silver) and the "head" part had a picture of some dark landscape with a small glass over it to apparently protect it and framing it there was the value of the coin, which I can't remember (maybe 30), but I do remember the currency was called "Yodel". The "tail" side simply read "Hell 3099", which I assumed was the then current year in hell. Anyways, I picked it up reluctantly, flipped it to see all these details I just told you, felt some bad vibes from it and put it back, but afraid I was then cursed from touching it, I made a certain hand seal and went back to do whatever I was there to do, but then I woke up

In the dream I was some sort of sci-fi samurai, being dropped off on some magical island. I understood that in order to properly see my way around here I had to retrain my perception. I put tape over my right eye, because apparently that was my stronger eye so I could only see through my left. There were some incredible alien entities doing stuff in the horizon is all I remember really. I think I had a partner on my quest.

When I woke up I tried to check the time on my phone. I think in order to not get glared too much I was only opening my right eye. The screen was blurry to me, and regardless how often I opened and shut it my right eye just wouldn't focus (left one was fine).

Later I was walking towards the park with a friend and past me walked a guy with an eye patch on his right eye. I had to do a double take. Granted if I hadn't have had that dream I might not have taken notice of him, but still, how often do you really walk past someone with an eye patch in a year?

So, I remember this being a fairly long dream, but I can only remember the tail end of it. I'm quasi religious but not particularly concerned about hell or demons, and when I was a kid i was interested in spirituality, but the whole "energy" thing seems pretty kooky to me now.

At any rate, it was a pretty overwhelming experience, and I woke up absolutely freaked out. In the moment of the dream it just felt so real, like I was actually feeling these experiences.

So my cat woke me up at 4:30am and she started knocking stuff over, so i booted her out and closed my door. I was feeling like i had a sore throat and aching ears so i popped an antihistamine and put a bit of oil in my ears, and tried to go back to sleep. I was really restless for a while and then i guess i knocked out because I'm in this hallway (and i know things transpired before this moment, I just cant remember what happened) and I am running from something. I remember knowing that I was gonna die if I didnt get away. And there were other people in the room with me. And then this thing is there and I remember asking it what it was and I think it said it was a fallen angel? and then it just started draining my energy and there was blood pouring out my neck and I was kicking and screaming and trying to get away, and then i fall to the ground, and am like slow crawling but its still draining me, and I dont know if I call out to God or what, but there is this man named Gabriel who whisks me away back to my room and puts like a seal around me. And then, this is where things get weird. Suddenly, I am the monster, as in, I know what's thinking but its perspective is also my POV? And I/the monster is being attacked by two glowy beings and I remember being right outside my real life house just fading into the darkness and into the other realm. And then I/the monster is in space absorbing the cold and the void to regain its energy and everything gets really deep and philosophical but its goal is to still get into my house and absorb me. It then goes to my house and my dad lets it in and remember floating up my stairs and into my room and looking at my body on the bed and then my alarm goes off, and I wake up. And then Im super freaked out and I remember my heart is beating so hard and my mom comes in and tell me to come down and drink coffee with her. So i shut off my alarm just laying there trying to absorb my feelings, and its about 7:30 am, and I hear her calling me again, so I roll out of bed and stand up and I just fall. I'm super perplexed because this has never happened before (im a fairly healthy young adult) and I try to get up and I just cant. And i start freaking out because this same thing had happened two years before when I had mono, but I didnt have mono now, and i kinda crawl to my door and use it to force myself up and I still cant walk. So let myself fall back on my bed and after about five minutes I can get up, i stagger downstairs and sit and the table, and my mom comes over and just is staring at me, and apparently i had been dissociating for a never ten minutes, because she's trying to talk to me and its not registering. She then comments that I look really pale and sickly and that i should eat something. I still feel kinda weird a few hours later and i keep replaying it in my mind. Some insight would be awesome.