Pondicherry
Dreamed 1991/6/6 by Toni Emrich and 1991/7/?? by Margaret Thomas
INTRODUCTION In 1991, Somnial Times, a bimonthly newsletter for dreamworkers, tried a 'Dream Meeting Project': twice a week, members tried to meet in dreamspace. This pair of dreams aren't that. They're weirder yet. In June, Toni Emrich had a puzzling dream about "Pondecherry". Without consciously knowing this, Margaret Thomas a few weeks later dreamed of a woman who punned on the placename and spelled it out so Margaret could look it up and answer Toni's questions--before Toni's dream had even shown up in the mail! --Chris Wayan PONDICHERRY 1: TONI EMRICH Clear, breezy summer day. I am in a rural area, which appears to be a federal or state park, with a few officials (guards? rangers?) in brown uniforms. There are brown, wooden farm-type houses (three stories, turn-of-the-century) scattered around--set on the level ground. No cellar. No gardens, etc. Furnished and apparently lived in during conferences. Area is far from transport centers. Very peaceful. Everyone is a visitor but conference seems to be over. |
On waking, I got the double directive--don't [tape] record this; write it down. Later, sipping my coffee, I pondered [Pondecherry?] the landscape to figure out where I was in this dream. It seemed to be old dunes or hills covered with scrub oak/maples, no pines, yet there was lush new grass. Short summers, long dry winters. There seemed a ringing empty sound, l) from being far away from centers of population in clear air; elevated; 2) associated with ancient time (experience I have had, both waking hours and sleeping in S. Dennis, Cape Cod--an old glacial area but pine-covered now). In the dream, there were no insects, no birds. The feeling was of being on a plateau surrounded by lower region of water yet I did not smell or even see ocean. At first I thought it was Prince Edward Island (where I hope to vacation '91 but have never been) but there was no ocean, nor association with storms. A thin layer of snow in winter and one ranger in a wood-burning cabin. Free association did not reveal [conference] center, though I called up Lake Louise (photos), Aspen, Colorado, and New Zealand. --Toni Emrich PONDICHERRY 2: MARGARET THOMAS I had a dream before I received your newsletter but didn't write it down at the time (not in India). As near as I can remember it... |
I was walking in a light fog beside a pond (water on my right), following a path, wet and muddy, stony, around the shore. I saw a lady next to the path by a tree before me. She was picking some kind of fruit from the tree and putting it in a bag or sling hanging at her side.--Margaret Thomas [Editor's note: Margaret sent a drawing and a description of the woman: "Dark almost black eyes, very dark hair, dusky complexion."] SOURCE: Somnial Times: Newsletter of the Dreamers SIG [of Mensa]; Vol III, No. 3: Aug. 1991, and Vol III, No. 5: Dec. 1991. Gloria Reiser, coordinator; Judy Landaiche, editor. |
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