DREAMS FROM 1973
DREAM FROM 1973
Most of my dreams prior to the 1980s are included in my daily journals and my trip journals. Dreams are placed unpredictably in the 1970s.
10/17/73
Dream of 10/16/73: I'm exercising in the LIVING room, on the edge of the rug, back to the windows, at night, and there's a FLASH of light and the jangle of bells hanging from a PUSHED BABY CARRIAGE coming toward me from the study into the hall. I chill, panic, freeze, then rush to see who's PUSHING the carriage (which I haven't SEEN, only KNOW it's behind the wall). No one. Into bathroom, flicking on light, one of the mercury contacts so that I can't hear the sound, and there's the same even-lighting, color-in/color-out effect as on Spiro Agnew on color TV the night before, when the woman upstairs was walking back and forth changing the reception, going from an intense blue to a somehow just-as-intense gray without any of the color quality. The same lighting change takes place in the bedroom, and I have the same fearful feeling as I had when I had those dreams as a kid and wanted DESPERATELY to turn on the light and it wouldn't work, and while I'd FIGHT to tell myself that there wasn't actually anything WRONG, I just wanted the light ON so that I could PROVE it. Frightening in the extreme, but though I tried to call out, I don't believe that I made any sounds, and I seemed to come out of it as out of a regular dream, not in any start or relief NOT to be sleeping. And I hadn't smoked the last two nights, I think, which gave the dream a chance to get through.
Hoarse woman growls "HOLD IT" as elevator at Court Street closes. OBVIOUSLY she's more important than the 25 of us IN the elevator and the 5 people waiting DOWNSTAIRS.