TOW 		             
Dreaming; Night of
March 20, 1987
       5:45              2Else. Then I somehow got somewhere where they were showing a strange wrestling on TV. Several bad guys were watching it. I tried to make polite conversation but they weren't really interested. Then their leader, a thin black man about 7 feet tall, came up to me. I was forced to defend myself, beating him and the rest of the goons up. I got together with an older man whom I knew to be a good guy, and we made our escape in his sports car. I had been with him before, it seemed; it was how I'd gotten there. As we drove away, after taking every precaution (except for checking for bombs on the car. I brought it up, but we just crossed our fingers), we discovered something we hadn't known: he had picked me up in another dimension. We found this out by my spotting several discrepancies—like a Christmas tree when I knew that in my dimension it was March. As it turned out, he was out of his place, as well. For him, it was October. We drove through quickly changing scenery. I remember at one point there was off to my right (I was in the passenger's seat) a sea, with palm trees growing out of its shallows like cypress trees in a swamp. It was gray and stormy, and the waves crashed about. I thought it was magnificent, and told the man that it reminded me most of the Philippines, and told him of my trip there. Then we came through a man-made tunnel, and we both felt a change. We were in a very modern-looking city, and we both tried to memorize its features for future dimension-hopping. He seemed to have a better time than I did at it. Then a shift, both forward and in PoV, making me an observer of the two characters. We had arrived back at my home (actually, it'd be better to say that they had arrived back at the boy's home), and, for some reason, the boy's father took the man captive. The boy was upset about this and worked out a deal whereby the man traded his car for his freedom. He agreed to do so, having already decided to take a long trip/vacation into the deeper dimensions. I guess he had another special car to do it in. Then a shift. My PoV was that of the boy again, and the man was gone. Some woman said to me that some girl had done wonders displining so-and-so (she used a name), the same name as that of the bad guy we'd overcome. There was an ambulance and he was supposed to be inside, though when I peeked in, I didn't see him. (G)