date: 2023-02-04
subject: Mystic Training Camp

Mystic Training Camp - 2023-02-04 - TOGoS's Journal

Dreamt that YC and I were on some sort of therapy retreat.

The place we were at was out in the boonies somwhere, and was a few buildings surrounded by meandering paths through gardens and over creeks and through the woods, mostly encircled by some hills.

They sent us to go for a walk, and outside was thick green fog. YC was 'going through some stuff' mentally, and was leading the way ahead of me without talking much. We crossed a bridge, and then came to a point where, as I was looking at YC's head, the world around and to a lesser extent YC herself appeared to stretch out until everything became infinite in size, and then the process reversed until everything looked normal again, but we had been turned around without turning, and walked back out the same way we came in.

The effect was sort of like looking at an object through a magnifying glass that was being pulled away, where at some point everything flips. But it also had a spherical aspect to it, like the wormhole from Interstellar. The space warping was interesting, but more interesting was that the event coincided with a YC's reaching a turning point in her pondering, and was exactly what the therapists had sent us out here to do.

It wasn't entirely clear whether that weird warpy turnaround point was put there by us or by someone else, though I had a hunch that it was a combination of both, one of the therapists stabilizing something initially created by YC. And there was a point where one or both of us somehow walked beyond that point on the path, which made things extra twisty because there should not have been a 'beyond'.

But they didn't actually want to stop at epiphanies. As long as we were bending space, they started giving us challenges, like "put yourself up at the top of that tower", castiing a blob of green magic to indicate the place they were talking about as if it were a laser pointer, and my eyes followed it up, up...oh I thought that was the top of the tower, but no, there's more...up, up, up...how do they have a tower that tall here?

I guess we were able to do it, because later in the dream I was way up in a tower. Though there seemed to be something about a parking ramp and guardrails, so maybe actually I drove up.

In a different dream I was driving around by the strip mall across from what used to be Westgate, and there were new roads connecting the parking lot the way back to Tokay, and I didn't like that. There used to be weird little patches of wilderness back there and now it was all parking lots and TGI Fridays and shit.