Dream Journal
February 17, 2026 @ 5:30 AM
I was in my run-down castle-like home in the old forest with the giant trees and no underbrush. I was talking mentally with someone who wasn’t present, and they mentioned that the huge trees around it could fall (a sore spot with me since people are cutting down trees left and right because “what if they fall on my house?”). The voice said there were five sister trees right next to the house, each 8 feet across. I had just flown a circuit around the house and said “there are two that are 12 feet across.” I was proud of these giants, but they were old. The forest was old, in a state of slow decay.
Now I was leaving this area in a rationalized car on the winding road out. Just after exiting the old forest into a small town, I turned around to see a tree tip and fall, crushing the flat solitary wall of a ruin that was the same style as my house. Was it my house? No, this was by the edge of the forest. But then I saw a fire blazing up and to the right of it. . . . Was my house maybe there after all, but not visible? I couldn’t make sense of the scene. There was a police officer I knew, and he was in a building nearby. I looked towards him intently through a window and caught his eye. I was still in the car, but it wasn’t moving now. I held his attention and signaled “fire” by holding up one hand and wiggling my fingers, then pointing to the old forest. Then I held my arm up and tilted it at the elbow, signaling “fallen tree”. He got the message and flew out of the building, creating a police car around him as he flew towards the forest. I floated up out of my car, then joined him in the car as he went to investigate. He had trouble finding any fire.
Relative Motion: Even though he’s flying away from me at this point, my desire to join him draws me quickly to him.
Watching Rationalizations: I’m closer to true dreaming here, so I see the travel rationalizations forming almost as an afterthought. We don’t get into the cars — the travel begins immediately and then the cars appear around us.
The dream self experiences the scene further up the stream, before the physical rationalizations come into being. I see the true action and then the rationalizations coming into being.
In addition, the policeman doesn’t bother with leaving the building by a door, nor do I bother with leaving my car through the door. We float right up and through the forms as if they weren’t there.
Scenes from Behind: I turn around and see a tree fall — a fear brought up earlier by an unknown communicator. Maybe this was a further visual communication from them. Then the image of the blazing fire appears “up and to the right” of the ruin. It’s not integrated into the scene, and appears without explanation. Does it also come from the unknown communicator?
Cross-Focus Talk: I think this may be a conversation between my dream self and waking self. I’ve never noticed a communication before where I didn’t know who I was talking with. My dream self is in this old forest scene, and it’s possible my waking self brought up a sore spot that the scene triggered in it.