Stupid dream

[nolawitch58]

Aside from maybe signaling that I had to pee, I awoke from a dream where I was treading water in the ocean, wondering if I would die of thirst, drown, or get eaten by a shark. I couldn't see anything except water and sky. No land. No boat. Nothing. It was even the cleaner part of the ocean without any debris floating nearby. If I was anywhere near the gyre of plastic, I would have climbed on that pile and built a raft out of some of it.

My brain is seriously stupid sometimes.

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[ms-issicran.livejournal.com]

Or, maybe you just had to pee. My eyes have slammed open after dreaming I was going to the bathroom because I had to go very badly. I'm really glad no one was around to see that limp-dance into the bathroom.

Where is that plastic gyre, I think I've read where much of the plastic garbage in the Pacific winds up coming ashore some remote island.

[tomo2k.livejournal.com]

The central Pacific gyre of plastic is not what you're imagining!

You can't see it, it's been found by taking water samples.

It's lots of small to tiny pieces of plastic that are suspended in the top few metres of the ocean.
- Perhaps 5 kg of plastic per sq. km.

Visible items are few and far between.

The problem is that even tiny pieces of plastic are not a recommended part of any diet, so it is likely to be affecting sea life and the tiny pieces take a very, very long time to degrade into something that is edible.

- The only things big enough to 'raft' are probably shipping containers or lifeboats that fell off a ship in recent days.

The "lakes of floating plastic" images around the Internet are nothing to do with this, they're either lakes that have been deliberately used as rubbish tips, or taken during a recent flood (eg of a tip).

[ms-issicran.livejournal.com]

Thanks much for the information, and damn, that's sad.

What I saw was a documentary on PBS about how the winds blew all kinds of tangled crap to shore on this one tiny island.

In essence, if humans don't kill marine life with plastic, we'll kill ourselves by eating marine life we've filled up with plastic. Great.

[tomo2k.livejournal.com]

Yep, pretty much anything you throw into the sea eventually comes back inside some form of seafood.

Any non-degrading material that isn't immediately poisonous tends to concentrate in the larger animals like fish, crustaceans and other sea life that we eat.

[saminz.livejournal.com]

Since you're floating in water anyway.... I'm not sure I wouldn't have ;-)!

[spiffikins]

hee!

All my signal dreams are about *filthy* bathrooms, or stalls with no toilets in them....it's so disgusting I eventually wake up and use my own :D

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

mine too. Usually the toilets are overflowing and I can't find any receptacle that is fit to empty a bladder into.