Rusty's Days 26

3/30/11: I changed my dreaming strategy last night, partly deliberately and partly accidentally. I decided going to sleep I would let dreams come as they may, and simply hope they would be vivid and I would remember them.

The first dream was of playing basketball, 2 men on each team. The brown plastic floor was quite vivid, it was a small extemporized basketball court, perhaps in a YMCA. My movements, my jump shots, a lot of which I hit, were vivid. My awkward unskilful dribbling was as well. I woke, mused about the dream, failed to write i in my notebook, rolled over and went to sleep again.

The second dream was a very vague dream, images were neither vivid nor clear. But Toni was in the dream, along with Del Arellano, who in real life had the office next to mine during the years before I retired. The words "saboroso" and "picante" are very important in the dream, standing out vividly and clearly. Toni tells me to put the chili into one of our white bowls. The bowl is also a very bright clear image. Again, I didn't write the dream, but went back to sleep, asking to dream more vividly and clearly, and hoping for Toni to be in th next dream.

The next dream was more vivid and clear, parts of it as clear as my waking life. Again Toni is in the dream. We are in a stone churchlike building. Toni is standing at a window in the stone wall to our left, perhaps asking permission for us to go further. Ahead of us is a wide stone stairway, doubling back to our right in a wide curve. The steps are deep and the risers are rounded. Everything is stone. All the stone varies from a not bright orange color to an orange that is almost yellow. As Toni turns from the window and heads for the stairs, I touch her right shoulder with my left hand and say, "I love you." She is not a very clear image. She is dressed in dark clothing. As she walks up the steps and I follow her the dream ends. After a brief while, I rise, record all 3 dreams in the notebook, and come out for the first tea of the day, plain old Lipton's.

I am pleased with the last dream, even the second one. I seem to be making progress in living a parallel dream life along with my very enjoyable waking life. And Toni is in it, more and more, and perhaps more vividly. The third dream is the first time I've touched her in the current dream series. That's progress. Expressing my love for her pleases me also. I am even with her doing the kind of thing that pleased her in real life, but interested me but little---touring an old church. What might develop next? Are Toni and I moving toward more intimacy? I'll try to keep tuning in, and will keep any readers informed.

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