{"id":3460,"date":"2015-11-20T18:18:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2015-11-20T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:24:25","slug":"back-to-nightmarish-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/11\/20\/back-to-nightmarish-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Nightmarish Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stomach and intestinal discomfort again last night which has been a frequent experience since the course of Doxycycline.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And with those have come disoriented strange nightmares again.\u00a0 Between 1978 and 1995, I worked for Pacific Northwest Bell \/ US West \/ Qwest (now eaten by CenturyLink).\u00a0 I’ve been gone from that company for twenty years, still it haunts me.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In downtown Seattle, they had three buildings, 1101 Forth Avenue (now a Hotel), 1122 Third Avenue (this used to be known as “Main” and housed much of the central office equipment for the downtown area), and 1200 Third Avenue (which I believe is now some sort of retail complex).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The three buildings were connected by underground tunnels<\/a>.\u00a0 Inside the tunnels there were cables on the wall connecting equipment in one building to another.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The tunnels also had some mysterious doors my key did not open.\u00a0 Early on I had a key that would open any central office doors and most other things but not these.\u00a0 I later found out one of them was to the battery room for part of the complex, which was odd, as I had access to the power room of every other central office.\u00a0 Another lead down to the train tunnel that goes under Seattle.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But there were others that remained a mystery.\u00a0 Some of the old timers told me there was a nuclear reactor run by the military down there but I think they were just messing with me.\u00a0 There may well have been some military installation as many military circuits ran through the facility and the train tunnel provided a perfect supply route that allowed loading and unloading of cargo totally incognito.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, in this dream, I was back at the telephone company but when I went into one building and then attempted to use a tunnel to get to another, everything had been re-routed and I came up in strange buildings that were unfamiliar, they had ground level entrances onto streets that were unfamiliar, and I was totally lost and disoriented.\u00a0 And oddly in downtown Seattle it seemed completely devoid of humans that could assist.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was almost as if I went down into the tunnels in one reality and came back out in some parallel but very different reality.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stomach and intestinal discomfort again last night which has been a frequent experience since the course of Doxycycline. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And with those have come disoriented strange nightmares again.\u00a0 Between 1978 and 1995, I worked for Pacific Northwest Bell \/ … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}