Dream Journal

Crying at a Different Level★
November 23, 1996

I’m in this dark sky land, in a dim house, purporting to be mine. I’m cleaning, sweeping the floor. While sweeping around my three guitars (my electric, an acoustic, and an acoustic from Rebecca), I accidentally knocked over two of them and the necks broke. I knew they couldn’t be repaired and emotion welled up. I thought “might as well cry” and I did, but I heard it from another level (one closer to waking but still dreaming). This woke my consciousness. I realized I was dreaming and got over it.

Voices: So either I was physically crying and heard it from the dream or, more likely, heard my inner voice crying in the near realm, where I heard it as though it was coming from another level. While sadness is emotional, the act of crying is a physical thing, so crying happens at a level closer to the physical.

Lucidity out of Weird Experiences: The strangeness of hearing the crying coming from another level of dreaming, or even from my waking body was enough to make me realize that I was dreaming, and knowing that allowed me to let go of the sadness.

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