ailurophile

This dream occurred on October 4th, 2010. I was taking a nap around 2PM-ish.

I was at the beach with my mother. She was lying out on the sand tanning while I was in the water. I was about hip deep in the water; the waves were calm and the water was crystal clear (which is not natural for where I live). It was also very warm, I remember I could feel the sun beating down on my shoulders. As I was walking around in the water I noticed a few stingrays swimming around near my feet. I wasn't afraid of them (as I normally would have been), instead I was more or less intrigued by them. I watched them swim for a while and upon closer inspection I realized they were not stingrays but bull sharks. I was more shocked than terrified. I felt like it was just a surprise rather than a life threatening situation but I still ran for my life. I jumped out of the water screaming "SHARK! SHARK!" which then caused everyone else at the beach to run out of the water as well.

The entire population at the beach (my mother and myself included) ended up running into an abandoned supermarket -- but it was still intact and well kept. My mother approached a nearby pay phone so that she could make a phone call; I'm not sure who the call was for. While I was waiting a little distance off for her to be finished I became a bit hungry. I wanted to take one of the candy bars that were at the register but because there wasn't a cashier (seeing as the place was abandoned), I decided not to because I didn't want to steal.

I then turned my head to look down an aisle and I saw my dog (who was supposed to be a 100lb chocolate lab), Grant. I called for him to come over, and he did. It didn't strike me as odd in the dream that my dog was a middle aged black male with graying hair and a collar because I seriously believed him to be my dog. I grabbed "Grant" by the collar and tried to take him with me towards where my mother was but he wouldn't budge. I tried to look towards my mother for help but she was leaving, so I started to panic. I called out to her but she couldn't hear me. I ran up to the supermarket window and banged on the glass but she just continued on.

I then ran back and grabbed my "dog" and went outside where I saw my mother getting into her car. I went to her and was about to put "Grant" in the car when he was attacked by a zombie. It was terrifying (even more so then the whole bull shark incident) because I knew if he were to be bitten then he would turn into a zombie. I managed to push the zombie away from him (The zombie was very slow and easily overpowered. More like the zombies from Night of the Living Dead rather than 28 Days Later, Thank God!) but the zombie kept getting back up and coming towards us so I kicked it in the leg and it just snapped off and right when I heard the snapping of the leg, I woke up.