March 14, 2001
Act 1: “The Portal”
Act 1, scene 1: "Professor Dies” I'm in a large building. It is a center of activity for witches, but it has the look and feel of scientific research. There are many secret projects going on. The professor was working on something and he died. A man takes me to the tunnel. I go into a small cave. There is something of great value here. I see a small hole in the wall. I look through the hole. I see an eye looking back! I move away. I'm not sure if it was another eye or a reflection of mine. I know this is what killed the Professor. This shakes me. I'm a little surprised that I did not share his fate. I get a message from Aliens in a different dimension. They say that the item(s) was placed here in storage. They had not been aware of the existence of our race (humans) and had not even known that this planet was here. (This is not necessarily Earth.) I think that they retrieved the item(s).Act 1, scene 2: “Professor Lives” Some time later, I seem to be in a hospital room. The Professor comes in to see me! I tell him that we thought he was dead. He tells me that the "death" was a cover-up. He explains that seeing the item caused a medical emergency but it was not serious. However, what he saw was so important and the project so secret that he was retired and given a new identity, with the full "witness protection program" type of new life.
Act 1, scene 3: “Behind the Story” Someone describes to me what really happened to the Professor. His exposure to the alien artifact did indeed kill him, but the aliens came and did some form of surgery to bring him back to life by extracting the item (which seems to be 'Knowledge') from him. They then performed some form of hypnosis to plant the cover story in his mind. Information was then somehow transferred into the Professor’s mind, by means of a hair, which the other man pulled from his head and put into the Professor’s mouth.
Act 2: “My Divorce”
Act 2, scene 1: “Black & White” My girlfriend [whom, awake, I do not recognize] and I set out on foot to go from here to there. She is wearing white jeans. I put my hands on her shoulders and use my mind to turn the pants black from about the knees down. This delights me. (More by -that I was able to do it- then by what color the jeans wound up being.) She is displeased. She turns them back. Feeling playful, I try to turn them back again, but she resists and I only manage to turn them gray. Soon they are back how she wants them. I forget about it and go on with the walking, but she remains angry. By the time we get there, I have forgotten about it.Act 2, scene 2: “Witch's Trial” We get to where we were going. It is that large building -the Witches Place. It resembles a warehouse. We are on a platform. She turns to me and points a fist at me! This is trouble! Now I recognize her as J. S. Everyone sees her do this and they react. I realize that this is a ritual accusation. Others approach me and I am made to stay where I am. She is very serious and so are they. I'm scared. A sort of trial ensues. I say, "If you want to break up with me, just say, 'I don't want to go out with you anymore.’. Don't do this!". But it is underway. I am shown a document. It is intended to be my confession. I am told that all I have to do is sign this, admitting that I am guilty of these (3) things and the Divorce will be established. "Divorce?" I say, "I haven't done anything!". They take this as prove of guilt. I plead with her, but she is as stone. I remember the jeans and changing the color. So that's what she's angry about!? How could that lead to all this? I say, "I'm sorry about the jeans. I didn't mean to upset you. I'm sorry!", but she wants blood. I don't understand. I'm found guilty, of course and sentenced.
Act 2, scene 3: “The Punishment” I am put into some kind of "body cage" like a suit of armor, with genitals exposed. I am hung high on the wall. Time passes. I get confused here and lose track of the progression of things. By some valance shift, I am at some point, looking on as a third party, thinking that the sentence is not so severe, but how long?
Act 2, scene 4: “Over the Edge” There is some great disturbance. I am now free of the device, my personal prison. I am trying to fight my way out of there. I battle with a man. I think he is in charge. We are on an elevated platform (a different one from the stage of the accusation, on the other side of the room, and much higher). I do not feel very strong and don't seem to be able to do any damage. I want to dispose of him by pushing him off of the platform. I don't seem to have sufficient power. Now there is a table there and on it are pieces of wood and metal. I pick up a piece of wood to hit him with, but he picks up something too. We fight with these for a while but still there seems to be no damage, no pain and no resolution. A third person shows up. I do not know whose side this person is on. He doesn't seem to offset the balance of power in either direction. I finally manage to push the man off of the platform, but he only falls onto another level of the platform about one foot lower. Encouraged at having pushed him over the edge, I jump down and continue the fight.
Act 3: “Roofing”
Act 3, scene 1: “Roof Flight” [I don't know where this part belongs. It may have been a separate dream altogether. I forget the first half altogether and the ending is fuzzy.] I know that I am dreaming, so I am flying. I fly for a long time. I seem to be mostly going back and forth. Sometimes I land, and then take off again. (Each time I come down, there is some concern that I may not be able to take off again, even though I know that it is only this fear that would prevent me from being able to fly, and nothing else, so I try to block the thought. At some point, I land on the roof of a small house. I talk to the old woman that lives there. When I am ready to move on, I have trouble taking off. There are low trees blocking the path of easy assent. I stand near the edge. I could jump off and then fly, but I know that sometimes flight escapes me and this could be one of those times, especially if I'm afraid that it will be. This, despite that fact that I know I won't get hurt. I think I manage to lift off and fly away.Act 3, scene 2: “Wooden Roof” [I'm not sure where this belongs. It, may be a separate dream.] We come upon a house and go up some stairs on the outside. We see the roof of the lower level. I notice that the nails used in the construction are very large. Actually they are spikes. One next to my foot is sticking out about an inch and needs to be hammered back in. Someone says that his grandfather took the roofing test and passed it, so he built this roof. The roof is made from think wooden planks. There were no shingles applied. I'm surprised that such a roof would last -much less keep water out. I step onto it and walk around. It seems dried up and weak in some spots. I keep to the ridge, where I (somehow) know that there is strong support. I say something about the need to put some tar or something on that roof. He explains that there used to be tar on it.
Act 4: “Different”
Act 4, scene 1: “Altered Fate” I find myself in another world or a parallel world in a different dimension or this world in a different time -the past. But I am in that same building. This time, it is a factory. There are people I know there (or versions of them). I think about a friend of mine who has died. I think I am now in a time before that happened. I consider ways that I might prevent his death. I see a small electronic device that I think Ed will need at a crucial time and it would not work. I pick it up and open it. I see batteries and wires. One or two of the wires is disconnected. I take a soldering iron and start to solder the wire back in place. I have difficulty. The pin that the wire connects to has come off. This will be harder to fix. I try. A man (I think it is Chase) sees me and decides to help. He adds flux and quickly solders the pin in place, but he adds so much solder that the pin is buried. I say something to him about attaching the wire. Someone sees the batteries, which are now sitting on a shelf, and asks about throwing them away. "No! Don't throw those away. They are needed."Act 4, scene 2: “Mourning Theft” Some people come into the factory (a guy and two girls). They are looking for someone. I am on the phone and learn that the person has died. I tell them. It then occurs to me that he may have been their friend and this may come as a shock. I should have broken it to them more gently. They seem to take the news ok. One of the girls picks up something from the table and looks at me (in a Dawn-like flirtatious way) asking if she can take it, as a memento. I look down. It is a piece of useless wood. Sure, she can have it. They start to leave. One of the girls (with a different look on her face) picks up a shiny new wrench and takes that for a souvenir. Now that is a little different (and pretty strange). We don't say anything. I think that one of them took something else on the way out.
Act 4, scene 3: “A Different Time” I start talking with a good-looking young man. We walk out of the factory and down the street. I have to say something to save Ed. I tell him that I have come there from a different time. I was afraid that he would think I was crazy but he seems to accept what I tell him. I'm not sure how far back I am. He looks at me and tells me that I look about 27. "So, I am 12 years in the past." [It doesn't occur to me until I type this, to consider taking into account that I look older than I am.] I tell him that my friend Ed died, and that I want to try to prevent it from happening (in) this time (or dimension). [Should this be Act 6, scene 1?]
Act 4, scene 4: “Another Dimension” While we are walking, I consider the notion that I am in another dimension. I see the reflection of the sky in a pool of water. I look at this man. I look at the buildings around me. I tell him all this looks just as real to me now, as my world does. I touch something and notice that my sense of feeling seems to be just as real. [I become semi-lucid at this point, but I am fascinated my the story that is unfolding and want to see it through. I intentionally release what lucidity I've obtained and the dream goes on as before.]
Act 4, scene 5: “Alternate Reality” We arrive at a building -the shop. There are other people there. I ask if he knows Ed. He does. It occurs to me to ask about Meredith. He knows her well and says something about her being a "girlfriend". At first I think that he meant that she had been his girlfriend but later I realize that he meant she had been Ed's girlfriend. I tell him that I was with her for 7 years. This leads me to think about Barry. I consider asking the guy if he knows him. Then he looks over my shoulder and says, There's "Sargent" Barry."! I turn and look. He does not look like the Barry I know. He looks harder, tougher. It seems he has had a rougher life. I would not have recognized him if I hadn't have been told who he was. I notice he is taller too. He doesn't seem to recognize me. I think I tell him my name (or he overhears it). He says it back as if hearing it for the first time. I wonder about other people I know and their counterparts in this world, and about myself. I look at people passing b on the sidewalk. I notice more Asians that I would have expected. The thought of "casting" comes to mind.
Act 4, scene 6: “Taking my Coin” Inside the shop, I'm walking around. There are several others there. I happen to kick something metallic. I think it is a coin. It rolls out to the sidewalk. I go out after it and a black man quickly picks it up. I feel it is obvious that I'm following this out. He takes it and walks away. I walk after him for a few steps then stop. I see some others walking by. There seems to be something different about them in this place. There is a lot I don't know. I turn to my left and there I see a piano on the sidewalk against the wall. I think it is my piano. Maybe it just looks like it. I wonder why it is out there and wonder if rain won’t ruin it. I consider playing.
[Comments: I wake 20 minutes before the alarm is to go off. I think about the dream(s) for a minute and then realize Ed is not dead. So was my mission successful? · Themes: dating, letting go, venting, fighting ] · Copyright 2002, all rights reserved
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