Result of the dream world "experiment".
Location of dream: Fort Point (under the Golden Gate Bridge), San Francisco, California
Time of day: It was night time and foggy, very cold
Sequence of events in the dream:
First of all, even though the sequence of events in the dream seem a bit complicated, they all happened in VERY FAST ORDER, two basic segments each only lasting no more than a minute, even less.
Funny, in one way it was right out of one of those ghost scenes in a movie though broken into two short segments.
In the dream I found myself first observing from the road in front of the Fort shown in the picture above just as you enter the "parking lot" square. A Devi must have arose out of the water from near this square and She resembled wearing the attire as shown in the graphic below of Ganga Maa but the Devi in the dream never said Her name.
She also had a blue head covering similar as shown in the graphic, not a sari, but the head covering was "pinned" further back on the head and there was no head band as shown, no Saiva mark on Her head as shown, in fact I did not see any headmark at all.
This Devi was holding what first looked like a rod in Her RIGHT HAND that later I realize is a trident (pic below shows trident but held in left hand in that graphic) and a very small "bowl" in Her left hand.
She came over the edge of the water barrier suddenly - I did not see any crocodile vahana normally associated with Ganga. She just sort of lifted over this barrier but I only assume She came from the water even though I didn't see Her actually raise head first from the water. She iust came flying over the edge of the barrier from the water side.
She then quickly "floated" and moved without feet stepping, across the "square" - Her feet were not moving at all. She was just "floating" at a fast speed and in the misty fog She had a white halo all aroind Her body extending about two feet from every portion of Her body but was more brighter around Her lower ankle area instead of head. In the misty fog the dream scene was sort of spooky and unexpected.
She entered the Fort quickly, literally it was no more than 2 or 3 seconds, She was moving fast.
But I didn't see Her go through any door to enter the Fort, I assume She must have went right through one of the walls of the Fort, but in the dream after She zips across the square and right "into the Fort", next in the dream I was also suddenly in the Fort myself in a room.
There were two other people in the cold, rather large, room besides myself - both dressed in white shirts and funny little caps, the shirts had black markings on them and I instantly thought they were in prisoner garb but that is what I thought for a split second and there was no time or anything to confirm this idea. I was still in my pajamas I wore when I went to bed, but oddly was wearing my heavy green-gray REI jacket over my pajamas which I didn't wear when I went to bed and I had my winter slippers on which are lined to keep the feet warm. The two men were sleeping on bunks, one was on a top bunk above an empty one, the other on one on the floor - I wasn't looking towards these bunks but for a second to look when due to distraction from the noise they made, they were both rising from their bunks in a quick set of circumstances noisily ...
... the Devi was in the North side of the room facing me and the two men, the halo very visible in the dark room lighting the room up like a lantern, suddenly becoming a bit brighter thus I assume the light had awoken the other two men who were startled in state and when I briefly turned to look at them they were raising their right arms just to the eye brow level as if trying to block the light to get a clearer look at the Devi - one knocked a cup to the floor, I didn't see the cup fly but heard it hit and tumble on the floor as if bouncing on stone not wood, both men rising up obviously startled and shocked even though I didn't even look at them until the noise of shuffle sounds they made, I only looked at them for just a second due to the noise.
The light from Her halo then got even a bit more brighter but Her face could be seen. She had very pale facial skin tone like a caucasian, heavy black eye liner, dark black hair that had a bit of "twist"" in some parts of the hair rather than only straight, She smiled a bit at the edges of her lips and teeth could be seen slightly and She started to lift up her trident a bit, not pointing it at us, just lifting it a bit higher towards the roof direction. She only had two arms. She then got slightly brighter and the dream ended just as a fourth man had rushed in through a door who was dressed like a policeman or something and no one paid him much attention, at the same second prior to this fourth character rushing in one of the other men was just giving out a loud explanation as if scared or shocked but it wasn't a word but more of a "hey!" shout. The dream ended abruptly just as I turned my head back to Her direction. The Devi in the dream never said anything. It was actually a bit frightening.
The entire dream must have been longer but seemed to be only a minute, maybe less, for these sequence of events to happen. It all happened very fast.
I am guessing the Devi is "Ganga" but She never said anything in the dream which as said moved very fast in short order of things and honestly this is only a feeling but no proof the dream was of Ganga at all. She was like the Ganga in the picture but also different. But in the dream She was without question a Hindu Devi and in Indian garb. Now since the goal WAS to dream of a Hindu God, this might have been my own mind giving me what I want.
I should note, I keep such a small Ganga poster in my house, not sure if this influenced my dream but I was not thinking of this poster at all before sleeping nor even looked at it. But who knows, maybe I just put that poster image into my dream. I have no idea why Fort Point, I haven't been there in more than two or three years. Not sure why the dream was at night other than I was dreaming after going to bed at night, and it was cold last night.
