Dream Journal
1992
I go to visit Bethany. I arrive, and her campus is a darker equivalent of SSU. She lives in Aquarius (a dorm at SSU). I meet this fairy who glows brightly through the gloom. Her real name is a one-word name that reminds me of “Patchouli”, but I call her “Tink”. We became immediate best friends. I have an utter fascination with her, and my whole visit begins to revolve around her. She can change size from small to really tiny to human size. I seemed to have the fairy power, too, as I could also change size.
At one point Bethany is showing me her room, but I’m just waiting for when she has to leave so I can go visit Tink again. Then I was searching for Tink because I had something to tell her. It was a very dim dream except for Tink. I was so enraptured by her!
Nov 9, 1992: In waking life, Bethany told me that during a guided meditation, she wandered into fantasy. She became Tinkerbell, pure white, and flew off to a far away place where I was a dull gray, sitting, lonely. She swooped down and flew in circles around me and I turned from gray to a shiny, shimmering white fairy just like her. We smiled at each other, took each other’s hands, and flew straight into the heavens.
I wish I knew the date of my dream about Tink, but I didn’t write it down. I wonder if these coincided.
Meeting Tink: This is the first time I met Tink, whose warm light cuts through any gloom. In the years to follow, I met many who reminded me of her fairy qualities.
And yet, Tink was a form Bethany took during a guided meditation. So I can hardly call her a fairy spirit, which was what I thought at the time.
Bethany and Tink: Without knowing the dates, I can’t confirm this, but it seems likely that her meditation and my dream crossed or influenced each other.