06/13/04
Frankie Avalon & The Acrophobe

Dream as described in my personal journal, 6/13/04:

I...had this odd little dream that Ma and I were in some fancy place surrounded by big glass windows overlooking the water, and it was overcast or rainy outside. We were eating, and I had a cookie, but I was too full to finish it. We decided to leave. As we did so I spotted a couple of people eating cookies filled with some rich jelly-like substance and moaned, "I wish I hadn't thrown my cookie away!" as I was suddenly hungry again. Leaving this place entailed descending a steep series of metal bars, and of course it was VERY far down to the bottom, and there were only a few bars near the top and I was so terrified of even setting foot on them. Then that guy who sang "Beauty School Dropout" from Grease (the soundtrack of which I purchased on CD this past Friday), Frankie Avalon, appeared below me and held up his hand to help me down. And that was when I awoke.

Further details: I had this dream the day after returning from a trip to Ocqueoc Falls and the Forty Mile Point Lighthouse with my parents in real life. During this trip, my dad reached his hand out to me to help me up a very steep trail from the river, and I had to use a set of VERY narrow and VERY precarious steps to ascend and descend from the top of the lighthouse, clinging on to the bars/railings as I went. (I'm terrified of heights.) We got rained out at Ocqueoc, and at the lighthouse got a good view of Lake Huron and the rain pouring out over it in the distance.

The place that Ma and I were in (in the dream) was some large public building and the room seemed to be surrounded by huge plate-glass windows overlooking some large source of water (Lake Huron?). It seemed darker, overcast or rainy, but there were warm lights inside and it felt good to be in there with all the other people. The place was nice and modern; I think of warm golden wood walls and brass trim, maybe around the windows. I don't remember my meal but for the cookie I disposed of, which seemed to be a regular sugar cookie.

When Ma and I were leaving and spotted the two other people (men, I think) eating cookies, we seemed to be turning a left corner around some large wooden thing; the men were turning the same way just ahead of us. I got an unusually good view of the cookie as it was bitten into and the substance filling it was dark and clumpy, looking much like caviar, though I knew it was some sort of jelly filling, like blueberry or blackberry (probably the latter). When I saw that I felt so very hungry for another cookie, particularly THAT kind that I just saw.

Then I seemed to be in a completely different part of the building, maybe back in the large room, only I was very high up; this is reminiscent of the earliest somewhat lucid dream I can recall, "Lucid Falling." As in that dream I was standing in an abnormally high place inside a building and looking down at the floor far below, and I had only a few nearby bars to hold onto/walk down, then there was a bunch of empty space left to go before reaching bottom! Like reaching the middle of a ladder only to find that the rest of the steps are missing. o_o There were maybe two or three painted bars (green or blue?--the ones at the Forty Mile Point Lighthouse were blue, BTW), and a couple on the sides; I clung onto the side bars and put my foot on the top horizontal bar and stared down, not knowing what I was going to do and feeling VERY afraid. The floor seemed light colored, like cream or offwhite; probably carpeted.

Then Frankie Avalon appeared right below me--as if he were leaning out of something, or floating--and just as Dad had held his hand down to me, he held his hand up. I think he was dressed in his white Grease Teen Angel outfit and everything; I seem to remember his deeply tanned skin was in stark contrast to his clothing. He smiled. He didn't say a word but I sensed kindness from him, yet I think I was more surprised and puzzled than anything to suddenly see him. And just as with Dad, my fear of heights was so great that I did not immediately take his hand even though I knew he meant no harm. My alarm clock woke me then.



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