Dream Journal
December 20, 1996
Rebecca and I are traveling through England. We stop in a presentation of “The Garbage Pail Kids!” in a church and I’m sitting behind this enormously tall guy. During a break, a commercial appears onstage: a car or truck in the forest is consumed by this vortex of flames and an electrical field emanating from between these trees, because it couldn’t meet the competition. Instantly I was there, curious to learn more about this strange electrical field. I was with someone, too.
The forest was dark, and the trees were tall, beautiful, and thick. I started walking and was instantly seized by some electrical field of blue lightning tendrils which lifted me up and spun me about. Then we began traveling down the trail at tremendous speeds, still spinning. I smashed through branches and growth and went higher and lower and was wholly unhurt. In fact, I was quite exhilarated by it. We went higher and I thought of how far ahead of the others we’d be. I looked below and saw the “Pelennor Fields” and a castle I wanted to explore but didn’t know how to stop moving.
References: The Garbage Pail Kids was a card series. The Pelennor Fields are from The Lord of the Rings.
Commercial Rote/Gateway: The car in the forest scene was suddenly there on stage, like a projected rote. I took it to be a commercial — an interruption in the flow of the dream — and then I went into it.
Dream Phenomenon: The electrical field seems like an astral phenomenon; something that can carry you along with it.