RICK'S NOTES

This is a key dream that began to establish the idea in my mind that the landscape itself played an important symbolic role in the dreaming. The Bridge, The River and The Mountain all appear here, based on actual land formations, but larger than life and heavy with potential.

...the dreamer is not ready to "climb that mountain". Clearly a dialogue is trying to happen, but there are important issues the dreamer is not ready to face.

The footings of the actual bridge that this dream appropriated are poured on prehistoric petroglyphs carved into the riverbank rock.

EDITOR'S AFTERNOTE

My own dreamscape has a similar divide, just not between Vermont and New Hampshire. I grew up by the San Andreas Fault on a stretch where one side is watershed preserve--a near-wilderness where even hiking's mostly forbidden--while the other is the Bay Area (high tech, millions of people). All my life, the Pacific plate's meant dreaming and the North American plate waking life.

We all know dreams do transmute day-things, but usually we have to infer that. Here, we get to see an element manifesting differently as it crosses the line--the jet on the waking side becomes a pterosaur on the dreaming side. This single dream alone disproves brain-science theories that dreams are nonsense or mere housekeeping, by showing symbol formation in realtime! Jung was right all along.

And when waking and dreaming fight... notice which one wins.

SOURCE: Rick Veitch's Crypto Zoo, 2004, King Hell Press (collecting #s 15-20 of his Rare Bit Fiends comics), pp.16-17 + note p. 130. Untitled; I added "Bellows Bridge".

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