02/13/05
Cave Of The Woods


I won't even think of a creative title since I really don't remember anything of this dream; I only take note of it because it's about Mackinac Island. ^_^;

All I know is it had a lot to do with Cave of the Woods, a natural limestone formation on the island. It's a cave, way out in the middle of the woods, of course. It features importantly in my fantasy writing. In my dream I know that Ma and I were either on the island or...the island was somehow here...and I seemed to keep going to Cave of the Woods. I even seemed to be living in it or just hanging out there a lot. I had this odd feeling almost like this location was inside the house even though it looked almost like the real Cave of the Woods, a cave in the middle of the woods. It was either evening or overcast, getting late; I seem to think of a sort of overhead view of the cave, not possible in real life. Lots of green. I kept returning. I really wanted to be there, but it wasn't a feeling of peace. I felt tense, almost. Not anxious, not excited, but tense. Ma figured in to this but I was the main player. I just seemed to keep going back there or ending up there somehow and maybe somebody was watching me. I felt drawn to it, like it was important. I don't remember much else aside from that, but it seemed to go on for quite a while. I had this dream a while before getting up for good so that's one reason why it faded so badly, but I don't think I remembered it well even right after having it. Just recurring images of the cave, and a feeling of importance in being there.

This dream was likely influenced by the fact that in real life the day before, I had found, online, scanned page images of a two-volume book set about Mackinac Island which I have been DYING TO READ! I saw it on sale at eBay for $95 several months back and really wanted it but couldn't afford it. -_- And then yesterday I got curious while browsing archaic texts at Canadiana.org (a site with lots of volumes from the 1800s, dealing with Native Americans and the Great Lakes area, etc.), and decided to see if there were other similar sites. I ended up going through archive after archive on different sites, getting really sidetracked, and finally came across a University of Michigan site I have visited plenty of times in the past. But I'd never noticed their Michigan county histories and so decided to check out that section. And there was this two-volume book, available online for FREE! :D I was SO happy! And I've been very busy saving the page images to the hard drive.

Before I went to bed I wondered if I would have a dream about Mackinac Island now, since I have not had one in quite a while and have been wanting one, and I had just been given good reason for having one. Well, I did have one...I just didn't remember it worth squat!! ^_^;

The feeling of importance I got from the cave, and/or the feeling of being watched or observed, may have had something to do with my fictional character Moon Wolf, a medicine man and a sort of "Animus" figure. In my stories he lives in this cave, and I go through occasional bouts of obsessing about him. He's a very intense character, which reminded me of how I felt in the dream.



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