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The Dark Tower Is a School and Dorm★★★
October 4, 1996
The Dark Tower • Southwest State University (SSU)

I was at SSU again, during orientation. Rebecca was with me. I was there to visit Paxston. We had to stay in a dorm, and were assigned to the Dark Tower, so I think that might be SSU. Rebecca and I were allowed to sleep in the same room. She took a shower and a sizable stream of water flowed out the door and joined with one of the two streams running down each side of the spiral hallway. I tried to call Paxston repeatedly and failed. One time, I encountered the rudest phone operator lady ever. She went crazy, and I chewed her out big time.

The entrance to the Dark Tower
seen from above

This is all very familiar. I’ve been here before and had trouble contacting my friends. Everyone there was like new college students at orientation, walking around with pamphlets and folders. The sky is always ominous and cloudy, and the light is like early morning. There are other buildings up the road. I know this place very, very well. The doors to rooms were black, and all the same and kinda run down. The DARK TOWER is the main dorm there, the main building and receiving area. Most everything in this SSU/Dark Tower isn’t working yet, but you can explore. The beginning lake part of the drive is like the curving forested roads along Lake Minnetonka.

Newspaper ad for Dante’s

At one point, I see a place called “Dante’s” in a newspaper ad. It had an image, and the hills/dome behind on top of it reminded me of The Tower on Arcology Hill.

References: SSU is the first college I went to.

The Dark Tower: This appears to be my first recorded dream of the Dark Tower. It was an orientation, and I was assigned to the Dark Tower dorm.

Aware of Other Dream Locations: Here I am at the Dark Tower, looking at a newspaper ad and thinking an image in it reminds me of another popular 4 AM dream location of mine: the Tower on Arcology Hill.