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 may have been connected to "The Hand Of Glory."
In it I went out to the mailbox in what seemed to be wintertime, kind of, but it also kind of wasn't. There were two mailboxes--one of them was ours, and one of them wasn't. I went to the one on the right, which I thought was ours; it was bigger. I opened it up and there were schoolbooks in it, lots of schoolbooks and papers and stuff like in a locker, and I thought, "Wait a minute, this isn't our mailbox; it's got too much stuff in it. This belongs to the people down the road."
So I closed it and moved on to the mailbox on the left, which was smaller. I opened it and there was a lot of stuff in there too, but it was all stuff that Dad had put in there. I think this was the Masonic material from the "The Hand Of Glory" dream, because I started to take this stuff out, and there was a pair of gloves in there, like rubber gloves. I knew that they were put there for me; I could put them on if I wanted to pull the stuff out of the mailbox and keep my hands clean, but I didn't put them on, I just pulled them out. I think that's where I got the Masonic material. It was in the mailbox.
