Dreamland: the High Island

As I woke up I dreamed I overheard Irene talking on the telephone saying “well, Al, if he called you he must have wanted you to come on over, so come on over!”

My first waking thought was that she was talking to Al Walton, and that she was inviting him to my birthday party. It was one of those funny sleep to wake transitions, where I didn’t really realize it was a dream but thought she had actually been talking to him until I really fully woke up a few minutes later. Also had a really long dream with lots in it about a trip north by train, almost to San Francisco, just a trip to turn around and come back, in other words the reason for the trip was to ride the train, not to actually go to San Francisco.

Then there was another part, on an island not far removed from the mainland (shown connected to the island on the map, via an automobile bridge), walking down a road with a vista to the left of the sea below, and then off the road onto a small green pasture next to a fence which protected the edge of the cliff, a cliff so steep you couldn’t see the very bottom, with some boys playing with gliders or maybe throwing rocks off. They were on the other side of the fence in a place just before the slope increased and disappeared.

It looked like the pasture petered out as the fence came back in because there was a steeper part and a lot of small trees ahead, so we stopped: at that point where the six- or eight-inch long grass was growing, very green.

It was sunny. I was with my Mom and I asked her can you see the road (that on the map is shown as going around the island) below, because I couldn’t see it, there were just huge cliffs on the other side, about a thousand feet and the sun was shining more or less in our direction.

I was looking for a ledge somewhere on the cliff, from halfway down to nearer the bottom, but she pointed out the road it was on the very bottom level where the land was flat and I saw just a single car going around the corner on the road so I was able to spot it curving around the island next to the sea.
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