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The Pole Vault Event

Morning of April 13, 1970. Monday.

This was a shorter dream of childhood, but quite vivid and eerie. I am not sure of the background story or how it came in. I or my friends were never involved in pole vaulting at any prior time. The outcome is rather macabre. There is a slight possibility that the idea of “pole vaulting” (within my dream) is somehow associated with magnetism (regarding the play on “pole”) or time distortions.

I am seemingly near the high school building and area across from the primary school which I had been a student of in real life (West Elementary). A friend, D Smith (yes, his real last name), a black boy about my age, is running about and is going to be involved in a pole vault attempt. I do not seem to be engaged in any sport or practice of any kind; I am just standing around. There are hardly any other people around, mostly at least one male teacher or coach and a few other students (and possibly a couple parents).

Somehow, I am aware that the bar is sixteen feet above the ground. This has been a recurring height distance since earliest memory.

D begins the pole vault routine, running due south. However, when he goes up and over, he quickly ends up as “old” skeletal remains on the other side, along the side of the road (with a soft “gasp” or “sigh” from the others - no yelling occurs), which is near the sports area. I somehow perceive that he went through a “time barrier”. This is vaguely similar to another dream “Beyond the Martian Time Barrier / The Martian Casket” of a couple years later and which was similar in concept to a few other dreams where time supposedly moves at different speeds in different areas within my dream (even at different heights as is the case in this dream).

In this particular dream, I strongly “sense” that if he had not gone to (or moved through) that particular area, nothing would have happened. Again, it seems the “time barrier” was only a certain height in a smaller area in midair. In the “Martian” dream, the aging also seems to relate to movement through the “time barrier” and the movement itself may have been a supposed factor (causing rapid aging) in both dreams. This unusual theme was also in the background in a subtle way in quite a few other dreams, mostly from 1970-1974, I would say.Interestingly enough, I dreamed about unrealistic death scenes far more as a child than as I got older, especially in this sort of eerie way - which had its own precise mood and focus compared to later dreams. I do think there was some sort of influence relating to a particular mood and awareness of movies such as “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963) and several others, as there was usually a strange sense of antiquity or a nearly liminal awareness of Ancient Greece for no logical reason.

Coincidentally on this date: An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.

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