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.
I was walking in the woods behind our garage and there was a ring of dancers in the woods, only it was like four people. I remember there was a man, a fat woman, like a little girl, and somebody else, I believe, maybe another guy. There might have been more but it seemed to me there were four and the circle wasn't complete, because I remember while I was looking at it, they were forming a half circle, or three quarters of a circle, and I thought, "That's kind of stupid." I crept around the woods and while I was coming up toward them I heard the guy say something like they had to get into some kind of position. I didn't want to ruin it so I backed away from them again, and watched them from behind a tree.
While they were dancing around in a circle or something, the fat woman said she had to go to the bathroom, and she was going to do it right there in front of the group! For some reason that wasn't very offensive, but the guy said she couldn't do it here. She was kind of embarrassed...now all of a sudden it was like myself and her at the same time. I was watching, but I was also a part of her, she was a part of me, and she left the ring to look for a tree to go to the bathroom behind. While these other people were still in the ring talking to each other, she found a tree, and all of a sudden, as I said, it was like ME walking behind a tree. She/I, because now we were somehow mixed together, peeked out from behind the tree to see if anybody could see us. I could see them, but I knew that I was secure behind the tree.
Now it's like I was manipulating the dream. I wanted this woman to remain away longer than normal so the people in the ring would come over and see what was going on. I walked around a bit and I found this big huge tree. It was like a whole bunch of trees growing from the same center, and there was a cut-off stump in the middle; the trunks arched up and formed kind of a circle around this stump, only it was all part of one tree. It's like I was hidden in this tree and I started whispering to the fat girl; I whispered, "Come here! Come here!" She was curious, so she climbed into the tree.
Back at the ring, one of the people who was there was now this nerdy guy in big glasses, and he wondered what had happened to the woman. So he came walking toward the tree. I had made her disappear, like I'd killed her or something; he came over, and this is kind of gross, but I have to say it because this is what I dreamed. He was looking around and I was putting the words in his mouth because I was making up the plot, like it was in a show. He said out loud that he'd found her private parts had been cut out and put on the ground in front of the tree. He was getting sick, and moved around to the far side of the tree, on my left, where I couldn't see him at all, and I think he said that her throat had been slit and she'd been hung from the tree. He made a gagging noise--"Uhh--!"--and ran away as the older guy, the leader of the ring, came over to look.
This man, I remember him as sort of like a pagan father figure; he was an old man and he was grave. He wasn't panicking like the nerdy guy was, but he was very grave when he was coming over to look at the murdered woman.
Available illustrations:
* The woods scene. [up arrow] dancers in this direction. [down arrow] trees on this side too. all growing from 1 source--openings wider--stump in middle.
