If I could stop having that idiotic sci-fi con dream, I'd be a happy bastard.
That's terrible. However, it sounds like it's only some random dream, that's all. Playing off hopes, fears, aspirations. Those things often don't make a shred of sense. It's just the by-product of a brain that's bored because our eyes are closed.
The pool suggestion sounds like a good idea, you should do that.