ORIGINAL
TRANSCRIPTION - "CAPPADOCIA" DREAM, 1971
Within the horizontal lines below is the exact and complete
transcript
of a dream and two commentaries on it, as recorded on Aug. 26,
1971 in New
Port Richey, Florida. A few minor corrections have been made. A
brief current
comment concludes. This is linked to from Paranormal Journal.
DREAM - 4 AM. I am a leader - or usually just
a working
member - of a construction crew that is erecting a sky-scraper in
an ancient
town in the Middle East someplace (Turkey?). The town's name is
"Selechrine"
(pronounced 'Selekreen") and it is an archaeological site of an
ancient city
(later ascertained to be early Christian or Byzantine). Its main
feature
is a labyrinth of vast tunnels and underground churches. The new
construction
is understood to be a hotel for tourists - though there are
virtually no
people presently living at the site. I am not pleased at the
desecrative overtones
of the work that is being done at Selechrine (there are other
"improvements"
such as roads & other buildings).
I am on the 15th and top floor of the
uncompleted
building; the floors are not in, but others and myself move about,
unconcerned,
on the girders high above the ground. Now I instigate (or am part
of) an unethical
plot to bankrupt another contractor working on the building. Some
incident
is created (forgot) to give an excuse to demand immediate cash
payment for
money he (the leader of the other working crew - the
subcontractor) has borrowed
from us or owes us for services. The idea is to acquire all the
work he has
done for a fraction of its value. I have a key part in this unfair
scheme
by inspecting and criticizing work done (welding of a flat
platform on the
top floor). After doing this I demand payment. He is understood to
be a very
good man. But he is annoyed by my demand for the cash. Soon he
returns and throws down about a dollar in change! I had been
expecting the cash to be
a great sum - so great he couldn't produce it. But this amount
seems to satisfy
me - and I feel shame for my part in the scheme. Work resumes on
the building.
Now considering myself just a humble member of the other crew, I
descend
from the building and enter the tunnels.
[This phase of the dream is somewhat
distinct and
more interesting than the above]. The tunnels are perhaps 50 ft
high - and
further down them I will find high vaulted chambers like
underground cathedrals.
I think of the enchantment of them - wonder at their antiquity,
but Christian symbolism makes me think "they are not so old after
all." I am in a tunnel
that slopes gently down. I have been told that one can find many
pottery
chips here. But the floor and all soil is very damp - too wet to
dig in I
think. I pass a small grotto on my left which contains small
mounds, each
with a pottery chip stuck in it facing the main tunnel. The
display reminds
me of a graveyard but the little mounds are only about fist size.
The potsherds
contain some beautiful designs - many have writing that I have
never seen
before though it is reminiscent of a squared Arab style alphabet -
[five
characters here] - or perhaps more like Sanskrit without the
unifying bar
at the top of the letters. Now I begin to see the vast underground
chambers
- all made with stone - their interiors dilapidated and worn -
damp and in shadows - but always the overhead vaults are secure.
Projecting stones appear
on the floor. I have turned about now and am returning to the
surface. In
an underground cathedral on my left I see a robed man and wonder
if these
holy places are still being maintained. Continuing upward, soon a
man overtakes
me from behind and talks to me (always slightly behind me and out
of sight).
He speaks of his regular long walks in this and other tunnels. I
don't speak
for some time - and I wonder if he is a denizen of these regions -
perhaps
some occult figure. But now he mentions he is working on other
tourist buildings
in the area - a complex called "Futurama." The name strikes me as
corny commercialism
and I am a little disappointed. Now he mentions that he wondered
about me
- thought that perhaps I was some strange mystic inhabitant of
these catacombs.
The idea is flattering for so would I prefer to be than in my
present job.
Now I notice I have missed and walked by the upward pathway from
the tunnel
to the building I am working on. Though I am in an unfamiliar part
of the
tunnel - and I feel I must return to the surface - the two of us
walk on
silently and I have little concern. END
[I wake up at 4 AM - e.g. return to the surface - first part of
dream was
uninteresting and unpleasant but in keeping with honesty of these
records
I present it in detail. The underground scene was similar to
another dream
- little analysis comes though I feel dream is significant.
Perhaps it says
- "the contents of the hidden parts of your mind - the secret
hopes and forgotten
beliefs - are more Christian than perhaps you wish them to be."]
8/26/1971, afternoon.
Amazing coincidence (?!) The
Selechrine dream
(dream #1 of previous night) was strikingly prophetic. The next
morning,
after recording the dream at about 10 AM, at about noon, my
mother suggested
I look at an issue of Aramco
World
that had some pictures of birds. I had not seen this magazine before (May-June 1971 issue). Taking
it up I noticed an old
friend, B.T., had an article - The
Caves of Cappadocia. Turning to this I read through it
without much
thought until I came to a sentence about the "imitation of
Byzantine architecture
... arches, vaults, and domes " - all underground! Then I realized
the amazing parallel with my dream - the dream had underground
"cathedral" - Byzantine
- in Turkey! And a picture showed inscriptions amazingly like
those I saw
in the dream. Further - what of the word "Futurama" !!!
The dictionary says "Sele" means "time" in Scottish.
Also -
I recall particularly I wanted to spell "chrine" with the "ch" -
very close
to the Greek "chronos" - time.
2010 & 2015. Lompoc, California
Journal entries for 3/26/1971 start with a
pre-bedtime
resolve and then the "Cappadocia" dream and a first comment,
remembered and
recorded at 4 AM. The "afternoon" comment above gives "10 AM", but
I think
this was an error, and was the time I recorded four other dreams
that occurred
after the Cappadocia dream. In any case, the Cappadocia dream was
definitely
recorded before I first saw the issue of Aramco World.
Shortly
after seeing the magazine, I recorded the precognitive aspects as
above.
The 3/2010 comment on the Cappadocia dream in Paranormal Journal is based
on this.
The last dream of the morning begins: "I have been a member, or
the leader,
of a troupe of costumed banjo players ..." This is structurally
very similar to the way the Cappadocia dream begins.
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