Waterfall School

Night of August 10th, 2012
Austin Texas, on a couch with a blanket.


Waterfall School

This dream was actually in the late morning. I had it just before I woke up around 11:00am. Unemployment offers the ability to sleep in, perfect for dreamtime adventures. One thing I really enjoyed about this dream was that it was very vivid. There was conscious understandable conversation between me and others. There was also beautiful sights, this is what I was shooting for. I set the intention of my dream to be vivid and deep, before I closed my eyes. I feel asleep around 1:00am so had around a good ten hours of snoozing.

The furthest my memory goes back into my dream is me riding in a tram/bus with my Mother and litlest sister. We were driving on a street going down a hill with a tram full of other people my age and there parents. I was speaking small talk with my family members.
When we got to the bottom of the hill we pulled up to a red brick building on our left) and stopped the tram. Other people started running off of the tram towards the building but me and my family got off slowly. Then I was helping my mom find a parking spot for her car, though her car was already parked down there..? There were winding Oak trees less than a foot wide spread out over the area.

Oak trees

I was now going to say goodbye to my Mom and sister for an extended amount of time, the Mother was saddened by this and was having slight difficulty letting go. She was holding my hand as I walked her towards her car. The other kids had all left there parents in a hurry so for a moment I felt a little self-conscious about still being with my mom and little sister feeling like I was being judged by the other kids. I felt that for a moment and then felt secure about who I was and didn't care what they thought, I wouldn't hangout with others who thought like that and I loved my Mom and sister.
I said goodbye to them and headed towards the building.

The building was extraordinary, the front entrance was a waterfall coming over a ledge. You had to climb the waterfall to get inside. At the time I couldn't spot a latter so walked around to the right to look for another way up. A counselor there told me I could climb up a latter I saw on the adjacent wall. I went up to look and saw it was another part of the building. It was like a tennis court area where people were just hanging about.
This place looked like a private school, except we were all at a graduation ceremony kind of event. Everyone was just hanging out. There were mostly people I knew in High School and from my brief time at community college. There were also older people I knew from work and volunteering who were there, So it was a big crowd.
I climbed down the latter and went back over to the waterfall entrance. I decided I could climb the 15ft waterfall to get in. There was now a step latter much like that pool's have. I got to the top to find a perfectly dry room that was the lobby to the building. I entered and looked around for a bit before walking to the left, opened a door and walked down a hallway. The hallway was mostly purple colored but didn't look out of place. Velvet rugs hung off around table. There was a bookshelf on one wall. I left the hallway into another door where i came to a room that looked like it would have an indoor pool but was pool-less.
I saw some of my old friends so I went over and squatted down to be on there level (they were sitting on a bench) I said hi to a friend Billy who was surprised to see me. None of them had seen me in some time, I had disappeared for a while. I chatted with them for a bit but saw they were still in the same games that they were in when I stopped hanging out with them.
I moved on and walked back into the hallway towards the main lobby again. I ran into a friend K. I started speaking with him and noticed something was different about him. He had told be that he was doing alright, that he survived school ending but when he lost his job he had relapsed hard. Then I realized he was drunk and had been for weeks now. Some of our mutual friends showed up and spoke dearly with him. He was very sad and was in agony. I told him that It would be alright and he knew what to do, he understood where I was coming from when I said this, I then left him in there company and care.

sketch of the waterfall entrance 

I now went back into the lobby and looked around it was almost empty except some people were walking through and down other hallways. Now the room was totally enclosed there was now waterfall exit. A wall and doorway was now where the waterfall had been. I read some signs posted on the door there. They were talking about different AA meetings that were happening in the building that week. I didn't want to attend any of them so decided to wonder the halls. I knew that I would come up to a main cafeteria if I kept walking.
This was the beautiful part of my dream I left the lobby down another hallway that twisted to the left and right a bit. It had large windows on the left side, showing me that I was on the second story of this building. I looked out of the windows and saw an amazing courtyard below. Very tall winding oak trees were high above a red brick walkway. There were black metal benches and terraced bushes at different levels. there was some black glass buildings in the background. A lot of greenery and the light was golden shining over the trees. It resembled a sunset's lighting.
I was amazed even in my dream, I said out loud "wow this is beautiful!" I kept walking slowly down the hallway passing other people my age. Some of them I knew from high school but I was trying to avoid them and look out the window at the beautiful trees.


Then I woke up to my alarm at 11:00am.  I quickly jotted down a detail text reminder to myself about the dream. It proved effective if I could recall this much in this kind of detail. I'am seeing more and more how beneficial keeping a dream journal is. My memory of dreams had doubled in regularity and I have already gained awareness of being asleep in a dream once, briefly.


Thanks for reading,
Taylor. <3