This entry and all others from 1996-97 are part of my dream project which extended from August 1996-97. I kept track of my dreams for an entire year by recording them to audiocassette and illustrating what parts I could in composition books. I ended up with over 70 ninety-minute cassettes and four composition books detailing my dreams.
The written transcription is from a much later date than 1996-97 but is almost word-for-word, with some slight corrections and omissions. This typed transcription is not 100% faithful to the original verbal account, as it allows for slight modifications, additions, omissions, and corrections. There are new separations between paragraphs and dreams are separated into different entries at approximately the right places. In addition, segments of dreams MAY be transposed/moved/added to other sections as I see fit. Aside from these modifications, these dreams are detailed exactly as I had them over six years ago.
This dream had a lot to do with asbestos. For some reason they were tearing the asbestos piping out of the junior high school, only it was the high school in my dream, because when I was in junior high in real life--at least I think it was that school--there were pipes in the ceiling of the girls' locker room and they had signs saying "Caution--Asbestos" on them. In the dream they were tearing these out only it was in our house too, because I remember I felt bad going around while they were taking out the asbestos; I felt like it was going to poison everybody, and there was this really sick smell. I don't think it was the sick sweet smell that I've had before in my dreams, but it was a gross smell--kind of mildewy, kind of sweet, kind of sickly--and for some reason I associated it with asbestos. I went down to my gerbil cage because I thought that maybe he would get asbestos poisoning, as the piping was near his cage; so I picked him up and brought him out into the dining room, and set him down in front of the ironing board where there wasn't any piping. I thought maybe he wouldn't get poisoned over here even though it was still inside the house. I think I opened a window because I was afraid that we'd all get poisoned if I didn't.
