Sea lions

This is my first post to this forum. For info I'm a male age 44 doing some counselling and with an interest in the works of the psychoanalysts.

Walking in the dark. It was perhaps in a hotel garden or similar, as there were swimming pools and those lamps you get along pathways. I remember needing to relieve myself and my attention wandered towards the pools. I notices slow, dark creatures like huge slugs were slowly swimming in there and I remembered (how?) that these were the sea lions I saw earlier (although this wasn't part of the dream). The last thing I remember was X, a member of the teaching staff where I'm doing some studying, walking in my direction along one of the paths.

The sea lions emerged out of black shapes which I take to be inaccessible thoughts, memories or feelings. Large, slow and hard to shift but not harmful. Darkness suggests the unconscious. Paths suggest that it is accessible in/down there although the sea lions were in water which isn't so easily accessed. The tutor is someone who represents knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis and her being there suggests to me that the work I'm doing will lead me through paths in my unconscious.