Dream Journal
February 14, 2004
I’m at Blaine House, which I identify as an Oberlin College dormitory somewhat. I’m trying to pee in a urinal in a bathroom crowded with people and various things (when I wake up, I find I really have to pee). Anyways, I get it wrong — I take off my jeans and dunk them in the urinal water, which is already yellow. Oh no.. I realize my mistake. I’m slightly embarrassed and head back to my room, leaving the other people in the bathroom. There I find a sink and put the pants in the water to clean.
Isobel, sleeping next to me in bed, stirs, and I awake momentarily. When I return to the dream, it’s Isobel I’m washing in the sink. “I need to get the urine off,” I think. It’s not actually Isobel, but a squirming Cavalier puppy who wants to get out of the sink. While washing the yellow off her back legs and backside, I wonder if I’m mistaking the golden cavalier spots for stains. At any rate, I wash off all the stains. Notice how it was the lower part of the pants that was stained, and when the dog replaced them as my object of focus, it was the lower end of the dog that was stained. When I was done washing, the dog was smaller and whiter than Isobel, obviously a shrunken thought form.
At this point, Jared came in. He wanted to do something. I said “Hold on, I have to pee.” He went around the room unhooking the power cables to Blaine House. I don’t recall if I saw this, or simply knew this. My room was where the fancy dining room was — on the second floor corner in the back. The whole house was similarly divided into small dormitory-like rooms. Now as I was peeing, Jared ran over to me and started jumping around. The entire room started rocking and shaking and I, laughing, fought to keep from peeing on the floor and my clothes and such, failing because the urinal wasn’t there anymore. So the shaking and rocking continued, then all at once the room slid out of the house. It fell to the ground, slid across the grass in the back yard, and finally down a hill. It was a rush! The room came to a stop and then fell apart so that there was one wall flat on the ground and another standing up precariously. We laughed.
About ten people from the school were there, laughing, amazed. They were people who took positions in school government and RAs. They were really excited about this, talked of making it a new school tradition, and I was proud to have made an impact on Oberlin again. I thought, “Hey, it’s like that Simpsons episode where Homer is a party animal at college.”
Angel from my soccer team walked through. He said hi, looked about, and kept walking. Probably just a brief intersection of dreams.
Anyways, everyone went back to Blaine House. On the way back up the hill I noticed several odd-colored golf balls laying about, and as I looked around, found more and more. “Where did these come from? Someone must be practicing golfing,” I thought. I looked around, and sure enough, there were some golfers standing not too far away, not doing much. Clearly projections. I returned to the house and my room, which had mostly regenerated, and people set the room loose again, sliding down the hill. I enjoyed it but really wanted to start packing up because I was leaving soon. To wake up? Then they did it with the next room over. I awoke shortly thereafter.
References: Isobel was our dog.
Waking Substitutions: This is another great waking substitution, just as in “Isobel’s Head”, with the same subject! In this substitution, she is also made into the subject at hand — she replaces my pants as the object in my hands, with her bottom end as the stained end. Being that the dog form shrinks and fades pretty quickly shows that the need for that attribution to remain in the dream also fades pretty quickly.
Social Dreaming: Jared walks in and wants to do something! Another great example of social dreaming. It’s as simple as that. Just as easily as you’d drop by a friend’s house to say hi or pick up a phone and call — in fact, it’s easier because all you have to do is think about someone and you’re right there with them.
He shakes me free from my body (my room representing my body) to go on an adventure. Angel, a player on our soccer team, wanders through.
Buildings and Rooms: It appears that each room within a building is connected via a cord (or cords) to the larger structure. In “Deflating Tank” some rooms were also removed from the building, though in that case I didn’t see how it was done.
Dream Crossing: Apparently Angel thought of me briefly, which resulted in him walking through my dream and saying hi.
Sliding Out: The body-as-house metaphor appears again! The rocking back and forth is something I’ve seen when getting nonphysical assistance in getting out of the body. Jared knows what he’s doing. The way I slide out and drift to a lower spot is similar to the exit I had in “Passion & Liftoff” — one in which I rationalized I was in a plane drifting down and crashing.
The dream begins at Oberlin in a dorm. My brief awakening from Isobel stirring brings on an awareness of my physical body (represented by Blaine House). This mixes the two locations in my mind. When the room slides out, I exit the body to the exterior of Blaine House — my metaphor for being outside the body.