Thanks for the warm welcome guys (even if you didn't have a big speech!)

And also thanks for the tips.

I think I'll be joining the adoption program....need to have a look around a bit first (and wait until my probation is up!)

Water as a dream sign for me - well, it does feature in some of my earliest dream memories...that much is true. As for whether it's just a pool, or the ocean....I think it's my dream ocean, no sand, nice flat bottom (not paved like a pool though)...with oceany blue wavy water and no creepy water animals or seaweed to freak me out. The only time there was sand in my ocean was when I jumped in to get away from a boring conversation.....there was sand on the beach, and a bit of a sand-cliff (like how the water erodes the beaach at King Tide), but when I jumped in it was so deep I didn't touch the bottom even after the water covered my head. I remembered more about this one actually, I was talking to someone from work about work, but then I realised I was dreaming and that it was a boring topic to be talking about in the dream, so I kind of said so and apologised to the person and then jumped in the ocean, away to my next dream.

Does my dream journal have to be chronological or is it okay to add other dreams from the past that I've remembered?