TOW
             
Dreaming; Night of
March 29, 1987

       2:36              A long series of happenings in which I was watcher. Then a flashback to a particular situation—being trapped in a conversation with a woman when I wanted to leave—in which my PoV was 1st person. The rather lengthy and detailed flashback ended, and I returned to the main part of the dream, which I hardly recognized as such, having taken the flashback as the main thread. Again I was watching, and, after a time, things became more and more as they'd been in the flashback. Then, lo and behold, things were just as they'd been, and my consciousness was pulled forcefully into the PoV of the character who was in the role I'd had in the flashback. Time seemed to compress, and I realized that the universe ran in a circle, repeating itself again and again, and that I'd reached my endpoint and started over with this scene. Then I found myself "waking up" and I felt a sudden fear, afraid of where I found myself to be (in time) when I awoke. I woke and found myself to be in a bed that seemed to be where I thought I should be. Then, as I came fully awake, I realized that there was a man there talking to me, and I recognized the phrase he spoke from earlier along my time-line. I realized that it was true, that I had indeed looped back to an earlier part of my life. I panicked and rejected the scene, causing it to fade away. I slowly came truly awake. Afraid that I would again find myself to have lost years of my life upon waking, I awoke with an audible whimper, to find, of course, that I had not. (G)