Dream Journal
August 29, 1997
This is the end of a very long dream. Rebecca was with two friends, one of which kept capturing this green bug thing. He told her to pull the legs off this caterpillar and butterfly and she did! I was so mad, but apparently they were growing back.
I was in a circular area. I found a small mouse and picked it up. It began talking to me. It suggested I go back to the fire shaft, a place I was familiar with but hesitant about. I had four cards in my hand with different pictures of the inside. The structure was white and had a pillar with flames in the center. Around it were some wood spokes, perhaps? Anyway, I opened the heavy door to it and left the mouse outside. The entrance was at the top and I jumped down. I knew that I might end up in some other dream, and I had to try not to sink below the fire chamber. I held myself near the pillar and opened up to it and communicated with it. Upon doing so, I felt this ecstatic energy surge through me. I moved around the center with this feeling and then eventually left. The mouse wanted to be returned to its home. I brought it home but when I left it, it was a bent paperclip, not a mouse.
The Fire Shaft: Note my familiarity with the fire shaft and my reluctance to go. I know I might end up in a different dream. What is it?
Mouse to Paperclip?: How odd that a mouse that could communicate with me would become a bent paperclip when I brought it home. I’m at a loss as to how or why that transformation took place.
Advice of the Dream Self: Here my dream self knows that following this path could lead to a different dream and I know what I must do to avoid that.
Gateway Cards: I’m holding cards that I can use as a gateway to the fire pillar. It’s likely I was viewing memories of the fire pillar which I translated into cards in my hands. I could have skipped the card step and just gone there through my memories.