November 24, 2005 - Private School Underwater

I have been hired to teach at some kind of fancy private school. It exists in a kind of, not necessarily alternate universe, but something about the location makes it inaccesible to the regular world. Either it is in outer space, or (this feels right) it is below the ocean.

Most of the dream revolves around my orientation. The other teachers are mostly young like me, and there is a sense of how demanding the job is. Many comments about how you only get time off once every forty days or so. As though we are kind of trapped once we are there, although it’s not necessarily a bad place to be trapped. There is a sense of secretive sexuality about everything, as though the teachers are all having sex with each other, but it is only hinted at since I am a newcomer.

I begin to explore the campus on my own, looking in doors and going up stairs. There are always lots of people around: teachers, administrators, students. At one point I end up on a big athletic field with a running track. There is the sensation of surprise that the school can exist in an above ground, normal atmosphere. I think I race one of the students around the track.