Dream Journal

It was dark. I went outside into the misty yard, which was surrounded by tall trees with a few dim lights coming from above. I find someone out there who’d caught this huge bat-like creature. Its head was as big as ours, but bony, extended in a way reminiscent of a cow. I wondered at how he’d caught it, and saw a picture of him with his arms extended, and it just flew to him. I came right up to it and watched it closely.

Then I was walking back to the house, holding it. I was holding it at an angle so that its head was higher than mine, focused on its face, and we were communicating — perhaps this was actually a telepathic window. I don’t remember picking it up, and the telepathic windows are usually higher up like this. How much of our dream recollection is “I must have” because of these unusual non-physical effects?

I start with “Hi” and it responds “Hi”. Then I say “Hello” and it says “Hello” back. Then I indicate myself and say “Ben” and it says “Mina” (something like that) and I think it got my name wrong and repeat “Ben”. After a minute I realize maybe that’s her name.

I remember walking around outside, continuing the conversation, and it says something like “It’s just up ahead” and I think, “Oh, so you can speak perfect English now?” I’m disappointed, as if this is a badly-written movie. But of course there’s no language barrier in telepathy.

Later on, back inside the house, it’s daylight, and Dan is there. I’m looking at his old pictures. They’re pictures of our family, Jessie and I as kids. I’m amazed that I’ve never seen them before. I remember looking at the photos as an index at times, as if some were photos of lots of thumbnails. I was looking through these, and got to a few photos of Mina or another bat-creature from long ago.

The next thing I remember is that I was outside, and there were these incredibly deep openings in the ground, striated with light yellow and light purple layers, of a psychedelic fractal design. The material of the earth seemed like a flexible dough-like substance. It looked almost biological. The openings were as wide as several houses. There was one crevasse on each side of the house. I was looking down as if floating in the air. I passed over the roof of the house as I moved from one crevasse to the other. I wonder if this could have been Satori playing out over the scene. I wanted to find Mina to ask her about these or to help me explore them.