One night when I was three years old and we were living on Ferndale in Ames, I had a dream that has stayed with me my entire life. I don't remember the context of the dream. All that remains with me is a single powerful image from it.
In the dream I was looking a very tall structure, one that reached up in the sky higher than I could see. The base of the building was a square pyramid like the Great Pyramid in Egypt, except it was featureless. Above this pyramid was another structure balanced on top it. The structure was like a skyscraper, with many floors and windows, but it was tapered down into a point at the bottom end, and this point was exactly perched on the top of the base pyramid. I was amazed that such a structure could exist.
Thinking about this today I am almost transported back into my bedroom on Ferndale. I have no interpretation or feeling about what the dream means. But I can picture the structure in my mind right now as I write this.
Years later when I was in high school, I told my mother about this dream, because she had discovered the works of Carl Jung and was undergoing Jungian analysis. She suggested maybe it had something to do with astrology, as I was a "Libra", the sign of the balance. That was particularly satisfying. Maybe someday, in this life or the next, something about this will be revealed to me.
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