TOW 		             
Dreaming; Night of
March 15, 1985
       8:17              2I discovered, through a little bookcase I had that was much like my nightstand but larger with 3 shelves, another dimension. I looked at the bookshelves and all of the books were awry. I brought M to look at them so I could complain, and they had all been put back in order. A little else happened, and I realized that it was a door to another dimension. It was now 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, we'd had a party or something, so M didn't want me to go, but I did, so I went. First, I put some plastic liners over my feet on the outside of my socks and then put my shoes on. I didn't really know why I was doing this, only that I should. It was like that; I had a sort of amnesia concerning my identity in this other dimension/world, but things slowly came back to me. I then was ready to enter the new dimension. It took the aid of a little metal timing-type device which I had found. Several children, whom I knew, had been gathered around me as I lined my feet, excited about where I was going. One of them was accidentally(?) pulled into the other place when he fooled with the mechanism which I'd given him to hold. I quickly followed, but never saw him again. I arrived in a large auditorium-like room, which was well-lit by the tropical sunlight pouring through many windows (remember, it had been night before). The room was filled with people who were standing, sitting, walking around, mingling. I immediately recognized one man, "knowing" that I had seen and spoken with him at this place a week before (remember, I had no conscious idea of this place's existence until moments before). I went up and asked him if he remembered speaking with me, but he said that he didn't and returned to his conversation. I next went to a long table and took a seat in front of a man who seemed of some importance. A bell sounded and the man called out an Earth place-name. I assumed from this that the dimensional gateway was transient and that a bell sounded when it arrived at a new location. I asked the man how he knew which place was signified by the bell's ringing. He said something to the effect that it wasn't something easily learned. Then a girl, whom I knew and know but have forgotten, came up and sat down on the same side of the table to my left. She had a large musical instrument, a sort of cross between a trumpet, a small tuba, a French horn, and who knows what else, with several sets of keys, including a normal trumpet-like set of 3, the second of which was broken off (it was old, almost antique-like). She handed it to me and, after a few sick sounding notes, I managed to blow out a nice little tune, using only the trumpet keys. It sounded deeper and richer than a trumpet. I handed it back to her, and the people nearby clapped a little and returned to their conversations. I'm a little shaky on just what happened next, but the gist of it is that some great girl (J-like) somehow caught my attention, I seemed to know her, and then something happened (not involving me), and she fled to some place upstairs and away from the large room. I followed her by climbing up an enclosed, steep, and winding concrete-like slide. I had almost made it around the final bend, which would open into the room she was in, when I heard voices (in my head? from below?) saying something about fur or something which momentarily struck me with horror and doubt and I slid back down the slide. The next thing that I remember is being outside and having to climb up a rickety old gray wood ramp-ladder up the side of a building-hill to get into a patio-room to talk to a woman scientist-type in a lab coat. By this time, I was feeling as if I had considerable, perhaps total, power in this place and was beginning to remember things slowly. I carefully climbed up (here my acrophobia really acted up as I swayed back and forth) and made it to the top. Unfortunately, Merlin [my dog at the time] followed me, putting himself in a dangerous position so that the woman and her aides had to sedate him so that we could speak. Else in middle. (G)