Dream Journal
August 3~6, 1998
I came to at the intersection of 3rd and Tjo Street. It felt like I was tipsy. My vision was slightly dim, but pretty good. I noted a blue/green car with license plate 590 GBJ — the letters were something like that. I was totally aware that I was dreaming, and OB in my neighborhood. I made a mental note of the car and license plate so I could find it later.
While first setting out on Tjo Street, Rebecca came skipping down the way and it was like this bouquet of flowers came from her and shot into my arms. Then she gave me a big hug and kiss and then retreated away (she’s awake and at work right now).
I continued down Tjo Street for a while. I was stumbling at times, winding and weaving and it seemed that my vision could easily go out and a fantasy-dream would start up and take its place, but I held on strong. I was walking, not gliding. I came to a street sign and I reached out to touch it. It felt solid and real.
Continuing down Tjo Street, I eventually came by a nursing home complex. I went inside and this old woman stopped suddenly and said “I feel a presence.” I started speaking to her. She was frightened at first but my voice was soft and soothing. I told her my name and asked hers but she didn’t respond at first. Then I pushed on and she said something like “Anga” or “Ema” or “Ama” and I repeated it and she clarified it and it started with an “A.” I told her I’d come by in about 1/2 hour in person.
While I was talking to Ama, I saw Cous-Cous and Smitten (our two cats) approach. They were totally loving, and I was holding them and petting them.
I left Ama and walked to the top of the hill that Tjo Street went along. The cats followed me. There was a little dirt & gravel bare spot or parking lot. I decided to turn around and go back to see if the blue/green car was still there before I woke up. I ran swiftly back down Tjo with big steps. As the speed increased, so did this tingling feeling that was in the back & top of my head and my scalp. Soon it felt that a hand was holding my head steady as I bounded down that slope. I looked up at the clouds to match that, too. They were swirly and billowing, and I thought “that’s not normal or likely,” and the alarm came on.
Verification: During the very half hour of that dream, Rebecca wrote me an email! Thus her appearance!
Out of Body or Lucid?: I went for a walk immediately after I woke up to confirm the details. Did this all correspond to the physical world? Mostly no. It turns out the sky was totally clear. While I knew 3rd street was close to my apartment, I couldn’t find Tjo Street, a nursing home, or a blue/green car where I had seen them. This entire experience was like an OBE that I was lightly dreaming onto. It was mostly the physical world, but with projections added to it. It was undeniably one of the most lucid experiences I’ve ever head. It felt as physical and real as waking life.
During the very half hour when I had experienced the flowers coming to me from Rebecca, she’d written me an email. This telepathic contact was given representative physical form in the dream, meaning I was understanding true things but translated to physical forms.
Rebecca’s Love: Rebecca’s positive thoughts of me while she was at work connected with me in this dream. I’ve seen similar bursts of something shoot out from people in the near realm, and it’s a sort of communication. This one turned into flowers, either through some visual similarity or a representation of her feelings toward me.
Waking Communication: Rebecca was awake at the time, and her thoughts of me reached me in the dream world, where I could see them!
Whatever she had to say in the email, the love behind it was what I received, and it took appropriate physical form.
My Cats!: I have no doubt that cats are adept dreamers, considering how much they sleep. Here my two cats accompany me on an out-of-body adventure.