Chapter one of Death Dream

My eyes were closed but I sensed the suns warm rays against my face and the crisp water on back. I had so sense of time and space and I could have been there for a minute or an eternity but I eventually had the idea to sit up and look around. There was water as far as I could see in every direction but the water was unlike any I had ever seen. Though the water must have been hundreds of feet deep I could see clear to the bottom, and all the sea dwelling creatures that inhabit it. The Light shone deep and darkened nook and cranies irradiated with light. As I tried to get my bearings on the aquatic landscape I dove into the water and didnt feel a pressure change as I got closer to the bottom and the air passages of my nose had been flowing and I could inhale water as thought it was air. For the first time noticed that the creatures swimming in the water were in every direction. Thousands of tiny fish all swimming and changing direction simultaenously. There was also what looked to be some kind of crab crawling along the bottom that had to have been as big as a mack truck. I was so excited about my ability to breath underwater and with the amazing sight before me I barely realized the speed at which I was zooming around under water. I could focus my energy to my feet and propell myself at an incredible velocity. The exhilaration burst through me as I created a powerful force that propelled me 44 feet into the air. And as I broke the plane between water and air I felt the temperature and pressure drop and the warmth of the Light in the sky washed over me. Right when gravity caught me and the half moment that I lay motionless and floating midair that was a good moment...I held onto that moment. When I snapped back into reality and started my descent I effortlessly dove back into the water with no splash at all. I happened to catch sight of an old sea turtle that had a pocket watch around his neck. I swam over to the turtle and asked him why he has a pocketwatch, He did not respond, he just looked at me with intensity, as if i had offended him by asking such a stupid question. I asked what he was keeping track of, and again he just looked at me with his peircing eyes. I had a suspicion though that he had a valuable peice of knowledge for me. "Does time effect your life" was the question that came to mind next, the turtle smiled and said, outloud in plain english, "Whats time?"
I swam away from the turtle with his question on my mind. What's time? I took in the scene around me as i was lost in my own thoughts. In the series of causes and effects that get strung together to make up my life we call the distance between those actions and reactions time. I felt as if i was learning about time from a book because I had no sense of it in my life. I'm just swimming around taking in the sights living my life. I got to a ravine with a cave of jagged rocks and menacing creatures crawling about and I saw an eel swimming in figure eights around two of the jagged rocks. I approached the eel and asked it why it it was swimming in the same place over and over, and he said because I know this place, it is familiar to me and there are no surprises. I said but dont you know that you could swim in one direction and see new things everyday and meet new people and live a new day each day. The eel looked at me and said maybe one day, but we both knew that day would never come.
I had already met two creatures in the enviornment that was clearly not the one I had come from, though I couldnt remember anything from before just waking up. I stopped swimming at making this realization and concentrated on my racing mind. I must be dead and I am creating my life as its happening. Now I remember, I thought this is what heaven looks like so when I died I came here. I saw a figure swimming in the distance towards me and trying to contain my excitment I was staring into the eyes of the most beutiful woman I have ever seen. Her eyes were pale blue and she was wearing only a smile as she took me by the hand and led me down, down, down towards the bottom of the ravine I had seen from before. It went on for a long time and just when I thought this was going to go on forever I rememebered, I'm dead, i need to paint whats going to happen, and as soon as the concept buzzed through my head I saw a cave in the side of the ravine. This time I led my dream girl and we swam up wards a little bit to an opening where the air had been trapped in a bubble. When our heads broke the surface of the water we were at the footsteps of an underwater palace made of glass. It was enourmas and since it was made of glass we could see around the entire edifice. I could see a kitchen with tantalizing food already prepared and looking delicious, and several bedrooms with beds that looked softer than clouds. This will do for now I thought, as me and the woman of my dreams opened the front door.