Dream Journal

Befriending a Ghost★★★
January 21, 1997

Such a strange dream — I should have written it sooner. I was in a house that was haunted, trying to interact with ghosts. Certain parts of the ghosts would phase solid and I’d grab them or push them. Then I met a girl who was killed on December 17th or 21st, waiting eternally for Xmas. I attempted to befriend her. She started out as a dog — she had a really close bond with her dog and took its shape from time to time. Suddenly inspired, I tried to tell her I was studying this kind of thing on the earth plane. I told her about death and what happens afterwards, the pure essence, and more. Very strange dream. The girl turned into Ashley from South Hall later on.

References: South Hall was my dorm at Oberlin.

Ghost Communication?: Was this real a communication with a ghost? Seems real enough. Except why did she turn into Ashley later on? Did I start projecting?

Shape-Shifting Ghost: I had this dream right after returning from England, where Rebecca and I went on a number of ghost tours, so ghosts were on my mind.

Her focus on her dog caused her to sometimes take its shape.

Cross-Plane Awareness: My dream self knows the difference between the astral plane and the physical plane, and I’m casually aware of what I’m studying in the waking world. Feeling “suddenly inspired” is that memory connection between the dream focus and waking focus.

This is a very physically-oriented dream. Ghosts are a physical-world phenomenon (seeing astral bodies from across the border), as is the thought of them as being insubstantial. So my dream self is in a rote of a ghost story from the physical, but knows that the experience isn’t physical and that I have a separate life on the physical plane.

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