It's been a long time since I've remembered a dream in this kind of detail. This time I'm opening it up to interpretation, if anyone wants to speculate. I know what most of it is, but am still trying to figure out a few little bits. Just curious what others have to say. So have at it....
I was in Philly, not sure why to begin with. I somehow found myself at an oritentation for the first year of grad school or something for some microbiology program. I knew I didn't belong there, but they had all these papers with my name and information and stuff. Since I was having fun, meeting people and I figured I'd just stick out the day and then get things straighted out- I told the people that I didn't belong there, was just hanging around til I got a chance to talk to the person in charge and straighten out the mistake, no one seemed to mind, everyone was just getting to know one another, making new friends, all that cheesy beginning of college stuff. My education backgrund in the dream was the same as in real like...uncompleted BFA's in film and photography. At some point during the meeting people,
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beckyjen showed up- she was supposed to be there- and didn't seem to question my being there. At the end of the day, we left. She had to go somewhere on a train, I went to the station with her.
This station was downtown. she got her ticket, we walked to the train, down some stairs, then up some more stairs. For some reason, Jen was upset with me, thought I had lied to her about something, but we got it straightened out before she got on the train. The conductor thought *I* was supposed to get on the train too, even though I had no ticket, I was afraid that I was holding people up in line, but no one seemed to care or even notice, So I felt better about that. We were outside at this point, and the sky was white, the sun wasn't out, there was no visible light source for the whiteness.
After she got her ticket, I went up some stairs and back to the ticket counter. That area of the station was very small, dark, warm and crowded. There were signs for the railroad company on the wall, posting ticket prices. It wasn't Amtrak or SEPTA, but some small comapny with an orange logo that went to just a few cities... Philly, NYC, some place in NC, and Los Angeles. I stood near the ticket counter contemplating buying a ticket to LA....but instead went down this hallway, which was not quite so dim or warm, but still crowded. I heard someone saying something about the building being L-shaped, and immediately after, saw a long, curving, tunnel-like hallway form off to the left. The hall I was in continued straight on as far as I could see. The walls were a pale creamy yellowish-beige, there were stone arches every hundred feet or so
I turned down this hallway, the floor was made of polished cobblestone, the walls and ceiling were made of a contiuous panel of stained glass. The scene in the glass was a night sky...but it seemed to glow. Outside it was evening and overcast (I hadn't seen the sky since quite some time earlier at this point, but I *knew*), but the ceiling in this hallway was an intense royal blue with the stars and planets in white and shades of gold and orange. The glow seemed to come from within the glass itself
After walking through this hall for a while, I came to a door to the outside, and went out. It then ocurred to me that, since I was in Philly, I would go and visit
justchelsea. I was going to call her but (I don't remember which) Either I couldn't remember her phone number, or I couldn't figure out exactly where she lived, so I never did call or visit.
The next thing I remember was standing next to a pay phone- the phone hanging off the hook- on a traffic island on a freeway near the train station, beside the road, there was a grassy slope down, and from there a 10-foot or so straight drop from there to a dirt road, then a small stretch of grass or meadow or somehting, and then the station. I had to get back to the station, so I crossed the road, walked down the slope, stopped at the ledge. There were 4 cars coming out of a tunnel off to my right, one after the other. They made no sound that I recall, except for the second to last one- which was actually a large truck. The first and last cars had no headlights, the tunnel was unlit, except for a few orange lights at the edge. Off to my left, the road seemed to disappear. When they passed, I went to lower myself over this ledge, expecting to drop straight down, but I sorta hung there with my hand on the ledge, as if suspended, and when I let go, I floated the last few feet to the ground. There were some trees and shrubs around. The green in the trees, shrubbery and grass all seemed to glow, like the stained glass in the hallway seemed to glow. The sky was overcast, very grey-purple, but much lighter than when I was in the hallway, as if it were now earlier in the day...but it was still the same day.
Outside scenes were very quiet. I was in Center City, Philadelphia and there were regular city noises, but they were very distant and faint. Once I left Jen at the train station, I was alone, no one else was ever aware of me that I could tell, but I never felt alone.
From there I could see the tunnel/hallway that I had come out through. From the outside it did not look like stained glass, but appeared to be made of a solid white stone, like white quartz or marble. And that's the last that I remember, I don't think it continued past that point.
And yes Chelsea....that's much more detail than I gave when I told you about it earlier :-) I was trying to get out as much of the more blatant stuff as I could before going back over the details.
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