Sunday, September 12, 2021San Juan Bautista, CA [Candid mid-day conversation in the front room as Frances tells of this morning’s coffee dream] Tim –What woke me up just before 7:00 o’clock this morning? Frances crying. Terribly crying, in her sleep, heart wrenching to hear. I was thinking, O my God, she’s having a nightmare about …
Frances dreamOctober 3, 1990 Weird dream, just woke up from it, 8 in the morning I am in a public room with maybe 20 people. An old black man comes in, very thin, very old. Everybody knows him, the famous blues guitar man (I forget his name) from the South. He plays wonderfully. My violin …
June 20, 1978 Dream #1: Bird of Paradise I was in a second-story shop filled with beautiful clothes, all suitable for belly dancing. I remember the exhilaration of trying on outfit after outfit and feeling good in all of them, really good. I have never seen so many beautiful clothes and varied costumes in my …
April 6, 1978 Frances Dream (as if in the 1930s) I was in a hotel, or something like that, waiting for someone. I was about twenty-five, or a little older. I had been warned that a well-known (but not to me) burl thief and redwood carver would come around and try to get me to …
Frances dreamOctober 3, 1990 Weird dream, just woke up from it, 8 in the morning. I am in a public room with maybe 20 people. An old black man comes in, very thin, very old. Everybody knows him, the famous blues guitar man (I forget his name) from the South. He plays wonderfully. My violin …
Frances DreamMay 26, 1991 Woke up at nine this morning from this dream. I am alone, walking east on a trail to Finland. Sparse woods, not pygmy. I see Peter Franck, but I don’t think he was actually in the dream. He was in my thoughts in my dream, his nice body, his incredible charisma, …
February 25, 1989Frances With Chet Baker On a Train Woke up at 4:30 a.m. after sleeping two hours. Wide awake. Went to the bathroom, came back, scared that someone was in the house, though I knew there wasn’t anybody but me and Timothy. Then I remembered this dream. Timothy and I are riding a train, …
December 6, 1988Frances I just had a dream that me and my husband, Tim Tompkins, were trying to rescue my son, Crazy Timmy. We were looking all over for him, on the mall, the whole area, couldn’t find him anywhere. So finally I pointed and said, “We gotta go out that road.” We followed it …
June 3, 1978Frances Dream #1Teeth In My Back Terrible nightmare. I was at the psychiatric hospital where I work, walking down a hall. A male patient came up behind me and sank his teeth into the small of my back. I still shudder at the pain I felt. He would not let go and I …
December 12, 1978Frances Dream I was in nurse’s training and Dr. Merangi was there, much more lively and friendly in the dream than she seems to be in my waking life. I made some joke and she really laughed, something about her aura. We were training many student nurses, and we had to spend a …