(8/28/05) the stuntmen are done for the day

(Entered at 9 AM at the Tea Lounge at Union Street and 7th Avenue in Brooklyn.)

Dream 1

I was with someone from my NYC Americorps program, maybe VT, under a scaffolding. There were two trees. The one on the right was small and thin. The other one struck me at first as being unbelievably large. (They both stood outside the scaffolding, and we saw only their trunks.)

I was almost frightened by the thought of the size of the large tree. I called to my friend to look. I couldn't quite bear to look completely at the large tree. It was in a small pit and its root crown heaved and bubbled up over the sidewalk so much that I said, "Look! On the other edge it looks like a mountain!" But when I looked more directly at the trunk I saw it was thin as an average young oak.

Now I was afraid to look directly at the trunk because I didn't want it to be a regular tree instead of something special. I told myself that the root crown was enormous, so at least that was special. But I didn't believe it.

Now I saw someone in a silver spandex bodysuit and helmet arc down from the air on skis and land on the asphalt and slide on down the street. I was amazed. I wanted to see it happen again. I told "VT" to look, too.

We watched as a bicyclist arced down from the air to the street. I thought there must have been a huge jumping ramp nearby. We looked for it. We found a dark blue Volkswagen Beetle (?) with a cream-white board laid against it (?) as a ramp. I thought I'd like to try, but I was also afraid.

But now my crew chief SM came at the ramp with a tiny push-scooter. As he got to the ramp some vague hands set a barrier in front of the ramp.

Some vague person said, "The stuntmen are done for the day. The ramp is no longer safe to ride."

I was now on a bike, riding down the street. I went right, onto a strip of lawn. As I headed back toward the street, apparently preparing to do something showy, I rode toward a ditch I hadn't known about. I didn't have time to turn away. it was so steep and rough (though small) that I thought I'd wipe out. But I kept my balance. I was surprised that I didn't make a fool of myself in front of my Americorps crew mates and the stunt people.

But now I saw I was coming to a ridge or a little step-up in the ditch. I didn't know if the bike tire could take it or if I'd have to "jump" with my bike. I was pretty sure that now I was going to make a fool of myself.