I'm at the beach at night. I'm in the shallow ocean, sitting on the sand, just enjoying letting the waves hit me, but I'm holding my phone and I realize that it isn't a very good idea, a big wave could come along and soak the phone. So I get up and walk a ways up the sand, where I have a backpack, but I have some trouble figuring out how to put the phone in the backpack without getting it sandy.

Then I look out over the ocean, and there are a bunch of people out there in the shallow water, playing and swimming with a long black whale. I realize I've seen this on some viral video. The kids climb up partially onto the whale's back, and then he throws them all up and out into the ocean. The whale is very gentle, seems to know what he is doing.

I want to play with him too, but more than that, I want to... communicate with him, I guess. I'm wondering why he's there, why he's doing this, instead of being with the other whales. I think that nobody is really putting themselves in front of his eye, where he can see them, so one time when his head is out on the beach I stand right in the direction of his eye, but a ways away, and approach him.

When I get near, he's now in a pipe, completely out on the beach, so I approach the end of the pipe where the face would be, but it's become a fierce face, like a wolf or something, and it cowers and growls aggressively. I put my hand out as if in friendship but it looks like it will bite me, so I proceed cautiously.