Boat on the River
This was the first night I have slept with a Herkimer diamond in my hand. It was generally well behaved, and I did set it aside a couple of times briefly. There were two quite long dreams I was aware of, plus fragments of others. Some of the second of the long ones was remembered upon waking. There were long scenes involving a river, which are not remembered at all. The first remembered part being near the end of the river sequence.
Begin: I and one or more companions were traveling in a small open boat up a wide but very shallow river at a very high speed. I was not directing the boat. While we stayed near the center of the river, it appeared to me to be deeper on both sides. In the middle it was filled with water plants and barely, or not quite, submerged rocks. There were animals in the river as well. We tried to avoid the rocks, but at the speed we were going this could not be done well, so occasionally we would bounce over one with a hollow thump. The boat was very strong and rode very lightly on the water, as though weighing only a few pounds.
We abandoned the boat (at a bend in the river?) and proceeded on foot through a narrow place in a sandstone canyon. At this place, the high smooth sides of the canyon were so close we had to walk single file as though through a crack. Once through, the scenery changed. there were low buildings here, but their arrangement changed often. There was some association with (Isis ?). I was told we would be going through a three stage process. The first stage would be a testing and cleaning; the second a development; and I have forgotten anything about the third.
A woman, who I believe was part of myself, was the first to go through this.
She was alone and isolated, had no idea what was going on, and was just a
touch panicky. This I knew was part of the first stage, and I had some idea
what she would be going through if she did well here, but this was all
forgotten, as the waking process took a long time.
End.
Begin: This was a very short scene I remembered where
I was in the bathroom (of my waking house ?) and checked the length of my
hair. It was tied in back and was so long the ends were below my bottom. I
was a bit surprised it was so long and reached back to pull it around so I
could check what the condition it was in down near the ends. I am unaware
of any more of this sequence.
End.
2023: My hair, left to grow uncontrolled during the COVID pandemic reached less than three inches below my shoulders. I doubt it would have grown a lot longer during my younger years.