The Snarkel Dream  I'm in a big city. There is a very tall hotel with many stories. Off the side of the hotel quite high up is a platform that extends 25 or 30 out from the building. It is all enclosed and finished off. This is Alcatraz. The platform has a satellite dish on it, pointing upwards. It sends out small waves and gets the waves back when they are larger. The platform ledge is used for high-class business or social functions. In the building there is a large round elevator with a hole in the middle: donut shaped. People stand where the cake part of the donut would be. The elevator is about 70 feet in diameter and holds a couple hundred people. It goes up and down many floors of the building very fast, but gently.  I am in a round green room. There is a woman there on the other side of the room, and others. The class of 1997 from Brimson is in the elevator, and they enter the room we are in from a metal hatch door on the floor. They walk up and in like the elevator is below the room we are in. Alec Johnson is among them. He talks to another woman about Josh Lanky, my high school classmate. Alec says that Josh is a good guy. The class is going to watch a movie in the room. A woman I know comes up to me and says I have to move because the class will be sitting where I am. I hop off the table I'm sitting on and she sits down there. I realize that this exact scenario of the woman telling me to move has happened to me previously in a dream. In that dream I told the woman to eat shit, and wouldn't move. In this case, I moved. I go sit by the woman I know. The room doesn't fill up: not all the graduates come. The areas near the walls are occupied but the center of the circular room is largely empty. The people and I watch a movie on a big screen. My friend Tiny Combs is there. In the movie there is a black man who gets electrocuted and dies. He is digging, mining, and connects two wires together. The two other free ends of the wires touch his feet, completing a circuit, and he gets shocked. He is alive later, and a woman straddles him; they have sex.  There is a round brick vertical tunnel about 10 feet in diameter. Next to the tunnel is a ledge. There are some metal bars extending both out from and across the tunnel. There is a round concrete platform, about two feet in diameter, that moves up and down in the tunnel. I am hanging on the bars. My friends Tiny and Nate Nelling are there, also hanging. We have to let go of the bar, land on the platform, ride it a little ways, and then jump and grab onto the bar again. There is a snarkel there. The snarkel is a little man who lives in this deep, dark tunnel. The tunnel is very deep and dark. At the bottom the tunnel curves and becomes horizontal: the tunnel is actually U-shaped. It may go back up on another side. The snarkel says that he fell to the bottom of the tunnel once. It took one and a half years for the platform to come down so he could jump on it. At the bottom of the tunnel, at the bottom of the U-shape, there is a light. The rest of the tunnel is dark. The platform will make it to the bottom sometime, but we don't know when. The platform moves where it needs to go, where people need to go. One needs to jump on it while its' moving. My friend Tim Zelling is there. We hang on the bars. Someone tries to use a fishing net to help me and one of the other guys move from the bar that we're hanging on, like we are supposed to step in the net or onto the metal edges of the net. The net isn't strong, though, and it won't hold. I want to jump from the bar, pushing off from the wall with my feet and legs, and land on the ledge without using the platform. This is dangerous. I might not make it and would fall down into the deep dark stone tunnel. I get ready to jump. I tell Tim not to grab me too soon or I'll lose the jumping momentum. I'm aiming for a metal support bar on the corner of the ledge. I hope I can jump and grab onto it! I have to be careful when I jump not to hit my head on another bar farther out in the tunnel.