I'm given a tour of a deep mine out behind my parents' house, showing my sister around. The deepest levels have water, cold and hot, even some token trickles of lava, a lot of gold-bearing quartz, and blue clay where diamonds have been found. Little diamond-shaped tags mark the spots to encourage the miners. On the deepest level, at the end of the furthest tunnel, see a dark door. Look in till my eyes adjust...

Stars. Starlit hills against the night sky. Recognize them at last: it's the rift zone near Caņada College and my parents' house. I can see the water tower, in a mirror set up just outside the door.

Movement! There's a guard! I fear he'll kill me for finding out there's an easier entrance to the mine--a simple route to the depths and their treasure! My father owns the mine, dug it himself. A monopoly. How far will he defend it?

The guard just glowers.

I back out, return to the surface the hard way.

And I wake.

Write the dream. Believe it to be true. So I tell it to my mother as if it's a rumor I heard, without mentioning the source.

She doesn't know, so she asks... my dad! Damn!

But he's not angry I've discovered the secret entrance. He says "No, I've never mined out behind our house, because if it caved in while I was alone, no one would know, I'd be doomed. It's just too dangerous to work alone."

I believe him. He really didn't dig it. Yet the mine is there.

So whose is it?

And I wake again.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• My dad never mined: "Never mind"? It's true, my dad's the family extravert--he doesn't dig deep into his psyche--thinks it's dangerous. Consciously. In my first dream he owns the mine, but in the second he's sure he never dug it.
• The easy back door to the mine seems like Freud's dictum "Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious." I read a Freudian study of dreams today. Seems like my dreams agree they're a short cut!
• The owner wants the shortcut kept secret= the side of me in control now? Wants to keep the monopoly.
• Gold: profitable advice gotten from dreams?
• Diamonds/stars: deeper spiritual transformation from hardship--diamonds form only under great pressure!
• The two dreams as a whole echo a science fiction book I just read, Doris Piserchia's Spaceling. Daryl's an orphan in an energy-poor future; but she can slip into parallel worlds, changing shape to match the natives. A rare talent but not unique. Others are trying to steal energy from other Earths. Reckless! Just as pumping oil can cause quakes or salt intrusion, mining other realities causes dimensional instability. Daryl has to stop oilmen from wrecking TWO universes!
  The book's full of mines, secret doors, guards... and institutional denial.

Are my dreams warning against themselves? Or at least... that my inner dad's belief about the danger of dreams can cause trouble itself.

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