A group I was with (have no idea who they were) was going to be conducting research in the South Pole. It was a large group of people and I had my own small part, although I don’t think it was ever specifically labeled in the dream. Apparently, each of the people in the group was able to take someone with them, and I told my friend Rob he could come if he wanted to.
I remember in the dream walking down a very long hallway, like at an airport or something. I started off pretty relaxed, I think, but it didn’t seem to be about emotions. The task or maybe even the setting seemed most important. Anyway, Rob showed up in the scene and he’s apparently excited to be able to go along because he couldn’t stand still. The whole scene was very out of character for him. He walked around me as I walked down the long hallway, and he talked excitedly the entire time. He had bought “things” for the trip, some of which turned out to be strange gear that looked like wrestling gear. But in the dream, I called them hockey pads. I had no idea what he was thinking he’s need or want those for. About then I got a little panicky because I couldn’t recall specifically hearing my boss tell me I could bring someone, nor could I even remember anyone else telling me. I didn’t really know anyone in the group, so I felt uncomfortable asking what the deal was if indeed I couldn’t bring someone, because what a stupid thing to ask if it wasn’t the case. So I became worried that I may have to renege my invitation to Rob when he seemed so into the trip.
Suddenly, I reached the end of the hallway, which was also the end of my destination - the South Pole. I remember thinking to myself in the dream that I needed to recall if I was to go to the North Pole or the South, but then I decided I would be going to Antarctica. Not a place I have any real desire to go in real life. So, there I was I guess. I think I just took Rob thinking that if it turned out I wasn’t supposed to have anyone else there, I would just play dumb or something lame like that. But the next scene I remember was with my brother. We were just standing there looking West at the horizon (in the dream, west was my west now...but is there even a west when you are at the S. Pole?!). The sky was eerily dark grey and the surrounding area was bare and stark, like what Antarctica must look like, but it wasn’t cold. There was more to the scene, but what stands out was that I was originally with my brother, but then suddenly with another smaller group of people whom I didn’t know, but with whom I had some connection. We were all there to do some job, or we all had similar talents or something. Anyway I stood there, and now the other people were very secondary, and it was mostly about my specific perception.
There were silhouettes of buildings and a large city. No city in particular, and I got the sense that I was looking at civilization and less at a place where people lived. I mean, I didn’t really feel that people were there, in the buildings, but they represented people. Our group couldn’t move on and do whatever we had to do until the land at the horizon was level. But it turns out that the buildings/skyline were dynamic. It seemed they would fall and there would only be hills, and then they would spring up again in a different shape, only to morph once again into near-flatness. I felt somehow directly responsible for finding the mental equilibrium that would stabilize the dynamics and allow us to carry on. I didn’t think it would be so difficult, because I didn’t think it would have such an independent momentum from what I could influence. I felt calmly powerful. BUT - it seemed resilient to me and my small group.
Instead of feeling anxious and perplexed by it's independence from my "power", I was simply interested by the observation. As I was having these thoughts in the dream I also had the sense that I was somehow witnessing time and the ages. The scene didn’t seem dark because it was negative, rather it was a dimension not in our reality where there is sun. It is very difficult to convey, and I feel like there are a lot of details I am not recalling, that were not so lucid. Maybe I was seeing the ebb and flow of humanity since Antiquity. The dynamics were actually quite natural. It was just a very cool dream, where I felt I was participating from a larger perspective, one beyond my conscious mind with all it's distractions and doubts.
