Last night I had a dream that we were testing a new plankton sampling tool, a large syringe more or less the size of a rocket launcher. It had a bristly filter inside that slid out looking like a core sample of sea life.
In the dream I visited the lab of Holly Porter-Morgan and Sarah Durand, two professors at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York, near the Dutch Kills tributary of Newtown Creek. I have visited their lab in real life, but in the dream it was a future lab, full of new technology and gadgets that they were showing me.
In the second scene of the dream, I was walking over a marsh, and it was slow going in the soft mud. I looked at the plankton launcher and extruded its contents. Trapped in the bristles were many twinkling, turning creatures, some large and globby, others just specks of life.
![Apak](https://i1.wp.com/planktoneveryday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Apak2.jpg?resize=450%2C194)
Illustration by Apak, www.apakstudio.com
It’s the first dream I can remember having in years.
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