I am on a cherry-red jet-ski type of thing, but slightly wider & longer. The body is all hard edges & sharp angles; a series of triangle shapes (think ‘80s style Ferrari), & in the water, it absolutely GLEAMS red. Me & many other people are in some kind of goodnatured water race. The sun is shining & the water is bright & blue—a lake maybe, surrounded by mountains. The other racers are all young & fit, & some of the women are topless. Most of them ride on their own jetskis but sometimes I see 2 or 3 people on one craft together.

The water itself has strange qualities. The sur face of the lake curves up & down into hills & valleys, as though it were solid land, mountainous, & we the racers are able to carve up & down the slopes of these water-mountains with our super-fast futuristic jet-ski things. I look up to my left & see two racers 100 feet above me, cutting diagonally down the side of a steep water-hill. They are going so fast. Everyone is having fun.

But then I try to do a ‘trick.’ It involves me skimming along the lake bottom, sort of body surfing the underwater current, so low that my torso scrapes along the sand, while my jet-ski continues to ghost ride the surface above me. The idea is that I then pop out of the water like a penguin & land back on top of my jet-ski, but I come up only to realize that the jet-ski has gone flying off, is lost, in fact, & that many people are angry with me because the trick was so dangerous—the loosed craft could have killed someone.

So I go back underwater, swimming along the bottom, feeling around for my jet-ski & / or the limb of a body that may have been hit & sunk. But the latter is a secondary concern, almost an empty gesture, because nobody knows if someone actually sank, & I have the dream-knowledge that nobody was hurt, & am more interested in finding my jet-ski. The water is murky & I can’t see, but I realize that I can breathe underwater— or rather that I can hold my breath indefinitely. Then I feel the smooth plastic edge of my jet-ski. I’ve found it. I pull it to the surface & get back on.