10/13/08

Dream I -
Another night with many dreams, but only one to remember. I was with my grandmother, or I should say an older woman because it wasn't my real grandmother at all. But in my dream she registered as my grandmother. So I'm with this old woman on what seems to be the side of the road back in my home town, the one that leads into Bernville just a few miles out of Shartlesville. She has this big brown leather looking purse, and is digging through it. In her hands, she is showing me these small RVs. They look like models to be honest. But in a moment, the one she shows actually because life size.

Through the dream, she is touring me through these RVs of hers, each one different. Some had large areas for storage and snacks while others were well equipped with beds.

Eventually, as I toured the last one with her, the old woman was no where to be found and was replaced with my sister, who took the wheel of the RV. In reality, she would have no clue how to drive one (even though she is almost thirty). So she takes the wheel and starts driving down the road to head towards Bernville.

Dream II -

One dream that I just remembered now that I had is a little fuzzy, but there is enough there to recall something.
I'm not sure at what part of the dream this occurred, but somehow, I was hell-bent on finding this place called "Willow...something" that was apparently located here in Pennsylvania. Why it was so important was because my online friend Davis, apparently lived there, or was moving there, even though he is located down in North Carolina.

So me and a friend of mine (I'm not sure who it was), went on a search. We came to this old building which I think was located in my town of Shartlesville. It was kind of old, and when we came upon it, we thought it was closed. But we went in anyway and realized it wasn't. We were asked what we were looking for, and I told the woman that I wanted to find some maps.

We were led to a downstairs that appeared like a decaying sort of library. It seemed to have had books there from the 1700's, as everything was torn, yellowing, or disintegrating. I was trying my hardest to look for a map of PA, and as easy as it sounds, I couldn't find one at all that was helpful. Some were just relief maps, and others just had high ways labeled on them.

I had to go back to a computer, and just like searching for books in a library, I typed in what I wanted to find, an I pulled up all these maps, that were apparently located all over the library on the wall. Go figure that I didn't see them right away.

So I walked all over the library looking at these maps. Again, nothing helpful. I do recall however picking up an old book with photography of Pennsylvania in it. The binding was tearing apart, and the photograph that I saw was something like that of a mountain taken from the inside of a cave. So you could see the silhouetted edge of the cave, a bluish-white sky, then the crisp green trees from the mountain side.

Environmental Influences -
Setting - Bernville is a place right outside of my hometown that I have grown quite familiar with.
Setting II - Though the dream took primarily in Shartlesville, we do not have a library there. The library itself didn't seem familiar to me at all either, except maybe that it was a very twisted or warped version of the library here on the arcadia campus.

People - The old woman who was supposedly my grandmother didn't look at all familiar, so I assume it really was my grandmother but with just a new face or form. The other person that was in my dream was my sister, and I had just seen her over the weekend, so I guess she was still fresh on my mind.

People II - The whole reason I was doing a search for the PA maps was because of my friend from NC who I usually talk to everyday. Other than that, there wasn't really anyone who I knew there, besides a friend, who shifted from one person to another during the dream, so I could never tell who she was. There were other people in the library too, but none who I was familiar with.

Items - The only thing that really stood out to me as an item were the small toy looking RVs that somehow turned large.

Items II - During my search for the map, which I guess could be an item that stands out, the picture that was taken from a cave of the mountains in Pennsylvania stood out to me somehow. I'm not sure why, but in the dream, I thought it was so beautiful. It isn't a familiar place or scene though.

Pictures -
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