Intention: My initial intention for the night's dreaming - was to gain advice/inspiration for a children's story I'd like to write. I'm not sure how 'present' it was by the morning, but all the same.

At some point I drop out of my previous dream...

I wake up, and find myself in the cusp between waking/sleep. I hear an inner voice (not so much speaking at me, but as though overhearing information I'm supposed to know). I also 'seem' to be conscious of my real physical body - at the same time as I'm listening/recording the words - I feel myself to be awake/reaching over for my pen/paper, in order to record what I'm hearing.

Then, I fall back into a similar 'cusp' state - only this time I hear a man congratulating me for recording the message. He seems to think it's a skill that's valuable to have. I'm thinking that's nice, but still I got the order of the names and numbers mixed up (there was a list of names and numbers).

Finally, I wake for real, and put myself to sleep again.

This time I'm walking past the portables of my old primary school (towards the oval), only now I can hear the voice of a woman.

"Some drummer boy
under the sun
practising the 3 pages"

It seems to be a comment on this practise of listening to, remembering and recording the words that sneak in between the states of waking and dreaming.

I wake for real, and put pen to paper.