ORIGINAL TEXT - "CAPPADOCIA" DREAM, 1971
Below is the exact and complete text 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.
3/25/2010. Lompoc, California
Journal entries for 3/26/1971 start with the
"Cappadocia" dream and a first comment, remembered and recorded at 3 AM
(not "10 AM" as above). Then four other dreams were remembered and
recorded at about 9 AM when I awoke. Finally, shortly after seeing the
magazine, I recorded the procognitive aspects of Futurama as above. The
current comment on Cappadocia 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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