Dream Journal
January 20, 2015 @ 7 AM
This follows the dream “The Madness,” which I awoke from at 4 AM. In that, I was trapped in a rote that was difficult to escape from. I suspect that the following might be the same place from a higher, more detached perspective.
The second part of the night was remarkable and strange. It followed some siblings, and a whole cast of people that (I think) they didn’t know. Over and over and over again, the observers took a set of circumstances and tried to get the siblings to do something. The circumstances took a shape, like a building. Each successive scene, the building got bigger, taller, deeper, and the observers became more numerous. It may have begun as the roller rink in the earlier dream. But after each iteration it became larger and more abstract, soon hanging in space. Before long, the building was mere outlines, when viewed from outside. The observers were focusing on a girl from the siblings. But about three quarters of the way through realized it was the younger brother — the strange adept, the savant — who held what they wanted. With him, they tried flattery and appeasement. At this point, the building was large and very deep now, coming to a point at the bottom. They offered him a special train ride, but rotated the perspective so that the train was facing down. They wanted to get them deeper into the building. It worked. After a little while, near the bottom, one of the siblings asked a question about evolution. In response, they went through a thought gateway into a wide grassy field to look at and study these different animal versions of themselves — monkeys and horses, I think.
I wish I remembered more. What were they looking for?
Experimenting On Dreamers: This is so strange. A group of entities who understand the nature of the astral world is running these people (dreamers?) through a rote, trying to elicit some behavior or reaction. While I don’t know what the purpose was, what’s important is that there are goal-oriented entities who are able to manipulate the simulation’s circumstances. They didn’t seem sinister in any way and were happy to answer one of the siblings’ question at the end. It seems more like curiosity.
Were they trying to get me to the bottom of the structure in my simulation? Deeper into the madness of the basement? They sure did try hard to keep me in it.
A Thought Gateway: The dreaming siblings open up a gateway to another place to answer a question one of them has. This is unlike most gateways in that it is intentional, and without any kind of physical rationalization.
Importantly, I’m an outside observer here, watching the dreamers from outside their dream structure. Perhaps from this perspective I don’t see their projections and rationalizations.
Purely an Observer: I experience this entire dream without rationalizations. I do not inhabit any of the characters or get pulled into the plot. I can see the entire context, what is going on from the outside, from a perspective probably similar to that of the astral entities manipulating the situation. This is a true dream — I am seeing something happening in its true form.