UNDERGROUND JOURNEY

Dream of Helen Luke, age 80, recorded in her journal:

I dreamed I had been on a long journey underground. A number of individuals were on the same way. There was no sense of underground trains, just empty dark ground on which we had walked. Now after a last stretch we were moving towards the surface at the exit nearest to 'home,' which was our goal. A brief last bit of rising ground was ahead.

I was waiting, however, before going on because I thought my mother--- who had not traveled with me for the last part of the journey, having chosen another way-- would want to be reassured that I had arrived safely at this point where the alternative ways met. It felt as though many traveled on this underground way, but each was alone--- though there was a sense of comradeship.

I waited awhile and then I saw my 'mother' arriving. She was slender, dark-haired, middle-aged-- she recognized me and nodded a greeting and walked on. I was relieved and released to continue my way to the exit. She was wearing a trim suit of natural-colored moire silk or perhaps linen. All the others I had seen were in darkish dress. She did not physically resemble my memories of my mother.