The Pilgrims, The Transition: In Six Parts [Big Dream]

8:30 AM  (Day 2 of 40 Day Intensive)

The Pilgrims

I am with a group of modern pilgrims. Israelis? They are together in a complex each evening. There is something special about one of the young women. She has blonde hair and is dressed in white. She glows. She may be a virgin or some other special status. She has walked a long distance by herself to join the group.

There comes word of another special person, a man. He is still traveling but will join the group in a few days. His journey has also been long and solitary.

As time goes on the anticipation grows. There is an understanding that he will interact with the sacred young woman is a unique way. The time of his arrival comes but he doesn't come to see her immediately. The evening progresses and still he does not present himself. The next morning he doesn't appear and meet her either.

So all of the blessed anticipation of this union has now come to uncertainty and tension. What are his motives? She is still expectant, but her hopes begin to fade.

As I watch this non-dance unfold I go back-and-forth from concentrating on the woman to the man and back-and-forth. I am less certain of the man's motivation and of his purity. I'm concerned that he is being manipulative.

Nothing explicit happens. I wake up.

Notes. Even though I woke up and moved abruptly I still remembered the dream. I went to bed late after, 3:00 in the morning so now at 8:30 this is about five hours. Excellent opportunity for wake back to bed hybrid method.

I am doing more reality checks (Day 2 of 40) and paying much more attention to detail. I see the shadow from my finger as it approaches my palm. I notice the difference between the single shadow outside and the multiple shadows cast on my palm inside. I try and fell my palm feeling my finger, separate from my finger feeling my palm. I try and anticipate it going through my palm.

9:30am

The Transition: In Six Parts [Big Dream] [S: DreamLeaf, x2 all at once]

Part I: The First Try; Failure

I am in what is possibly a castle. I'm anticipating the results of a major effort. I have created a woman. She is encased in metal like a knight from the Middle Ages. She has been asleep or unconscious and I'm about to wake her.

She wakes up. I can see through the metal that she has a female shape. But really the only part of her I can see directly is her face encased in a metal helmet. She opens her eyes, she looks at me, and starts screaming. I am horrified. My point of view suddenly shifts and I'm looking straight down on her from above. I can just see her face her body is underneath and obscured. I'm not sure if I'm doing something to her or if it is just happening spontaneously, but she screams as she starts melting down or shrinking down to nothing. She is not just screaming in pain, she is screaming directly at me, blaming me.

I think to myself, well that was a failure. Back to the drawing board. I don't think those words exactly but that's the idea.

Part II.  Further Incubation

Apparently there are many other people doing something similar to what I am doing. They have a body that is encased in something, it might be metal, it might be some kind of cloth. But instead of opening up the case like I did, they are lathering it with this thick cream or paste. So they are allowing them to stay in this sort of cocoon thing much longer. As the goo is rubbed over the body it gets softer and it continues to mature. I think of the thing in these cocoons as women but they don't have the shape of women. There are no woman protruding breasts. It's just like a three-dimensional stick figure, so you can't tell any gender by looking at it.

The word is circulating that this is a much more successful approach. So while my first attempt was literally a screaming failure there seems to be a Way Forward.

Part III. The Plan

The plan has to do with escaping Captivity in this Castle. All the people involved seem to be young men. I'm part of a larger group or a cohort. The plan is nothing more than to run away, go out into a large field and hide. It is not a grassy field it's a big torn up area with large piles of branches and sticks and rough stones . We explore and play for a while but then it's time to hide.

We hunker down under the dirt and branches and try to hide. I'm looking up through a small hole in the cover. I see a woman reaching down. She's like a giant. She's is 10 or 20 feet tall and when her hand comes down to grab me it completely obscures my view. She does grab me and I am captured. This happens again possibly multiple times. We need a better plan.

Part IV. Escape Into the Woods

There's another scene of us going into this field and burrowing down in the debris. Once again our captors come and find us and start picking people up and taking them back. I then get the idea to run away. I am not running, I am moving through the air.. I don't feel the movement, I just see a rapidly moving point of view like a flying camera. I am weightless and moving very rapidly into an increasingly dark woods.

There is chaos and screaming all around me. There's some type of very small dark creatures that are zipping around grabbing people that have run into the woods. I hide up very high in a tree. This seems to be a temporary effective hiding place.

Part V. Primitive Shelter

I'm in a very small shelter perhaps a cave. There are a number of my comrades with me. We're almost climbing on top of each other as we move around the tight space. There's a table in front of me or at least a platform and there are a number of smooth stones of different sizes spread around on top of the table . A young boy comes up to me with a pouch. It is a sophisticated manufactured container,  a black pouch with a zipper, something that electronics might come in. He asks, can you play this one? He shows me a long smooth black stone.

There is a very large black boy, he seems to be in charge of things, sitting right next to the table. I asked him can we play this one and he kind of denies that it exists. But then,  he relinquishes. I take the black stone out of the bag and put it on the table. It has the feeling as if I'm putting on a cassette tape for a DVD.  It's as if I am doing something electronic and it starts playing and making everyone more comfortable . I don't hear any music or sound, I'm not sure exactly what is coming out.

Part VI.  The Fort in the Distance

[This is a direct continuance of the scene before but has a significantly different perspectives so I am making it separate]

The group is being quieted with whatever the stone is playing. I'm moving around slightly in this tight room/cave and I look out of an opening to the outside.  It's like a long chamber with a small square opening that slopes down and gets larger as it opens to the outside. 

I see that I'm very high up in the mountains and I can see something far away and much further below me. I can see it very clearly in great detail, even though there is mist or clouds floating around.  It's a massive stone fort. I'm looking at the top of it because I'm hundreds of feet above it and maybe half a mile away. There's a wall around it but the buildings themselves are incredibly solid. In stead of a roof there is just solid stone. A series of small openings in the structure serve as windows. I realize that if we could get into the fort we would be safe from anyone coming and plucking us out or trying to grab us. At the same time I wonder who is living in that castle and if we go down and enter it, are we going to be at further risk from whoever is living there.We will be safe from the people that have been chasing us [PUR] but the next chapter is uncertain. Wow.