I'm in the Hawaiian jungle, packing for a trip. Packing with actor Gregory Peck. Through gaps in the the canopy, I peek out across a wide plain to the horizon where I can see... Pike's Peak.

I mutter "Pack, Peck, Peek, Pike, Peak..." but just can't make any sense of it all.

Then Gregory Peck goes crazy again--nothing new. He does it all the time, you know. So I fight Peck and tie him up and leave him under a mango tree to calm down.

Hike alone and naked along the ancient aqueduct through the forest, ignoring the occasional tourist, until at last, high in the lava rocks, I find a cairn of stones. My cache! I unearth my journal. Water damage? No--high and dry!

Good to have my dreams back. I sit in the warm green shade, eating a mango, happily reading my own dream-journals inside a dream... until then wake.

THAT DAY

Write the dream in my current journal. Can figure out some elements. I was just in Hawaii; I did pack through jungle and see ruins of basaltic rock. But I wouldn't even recognize actor Gregory Peck, and I've never visited Pike's Peak. Pack, peck, peek, pike, peak...

Bike to work. It's my first day back at the Stanford Library. I have to file a large pack of cards in the catalog. Blink as I realize I've been given a cardpack in the P's today. Like... no! It can't be. No way. But it is. Here are the cards for it. Stanford Library just purchased the journal of Zebulon Pike. The man who climbed, and named, Pike's Peak.

I guess it was just... in the cards.

41 YEARS LATER

Predictive dreams no longer surprise me. Over 5% of my dreams seem, like Pike's Journal, to be predictive, telepathic or clairvoyant (15-1600 out of 30,000 logged). These days, I'm stalking even more exotic sorts. One is the self-flagging dream: the dream that mentions lucid dreaming, prompting you to go lucid; a literal, non-symbolic dream that says so in the dream; a predictive dream that mentions predictive dreams. Is Pike self-flagging? All those extra "p--k"s to hammer it home, and the emphasis on preserving valuable journals... my dreaming mind seems to be prompting me both to write the dream in my journal before work [so it's provably predictive], and to notice if the library acquired any journals today. I still don't think Pike quite makes the self-flagging list. But close.

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