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The Jury-Rigged House that Jerry Built

Morning of July 9, 1978. Sunday.

My original dream journal title from this time (age seventeen) was simply “Jerry-Built”, later transcripts being “The House on the Moon that Jerry Built” (titular misplaced modifier and all; after all, Jerry built the house, not the moon), and similar, with the “final” title of that time being “The House That Jerry Built”. This dream was impersonal even though the setting was my backyard in Cubitis (and I seem to be safely standing and watching everything as if I am there) and there is only a vague sense of wonder. The main character is named Jerry of whom only vaguely reminds me of a young Jerry Lewis. Through new research, I seem to have found some of the layered associations. However, this dream is also somewhat inexplicable in those associations. Often such dreams seem to have been created over a very long time with several plays on words and such working at once (including with both postcognitive and precognitive layers) in an almost circular fashion - something I have never seen the conscious mind remotely able to do or even come close to producing. Still, unlocking multilayered mysteries even after years have passed is quite enlightening and enjoyable and is evidence of even more attributes of The Source.

The main plot involves Jerry, who is somewhat mentally slow (or perhaps just how I see everyman), being sent to the moon on his own - a highly unlikely scenario, of course. Interestingly, as with a much older childhood dream, the moon turns out to be my backyard in Cubitis. The technicians and scientists seem to be there on the “moon” and speaking from the open jalousie windows of the east side of my house (from our living room). It also seems directly associated with a play I did in fifth grade called “Space Trouble Girl Trouble” which I, Susan R (the only other person I ever “saw” at a higher level other than my wife Zsuzsanna), and a few others wrote and put together fairly quickly, with me ending up taking the cardboard set home (a large faux rocket complete with faux controls) and keeping for a year or so in my room.

I do not imply true precognition here, but the term “jerrybuilt” (sometimes written as jerry-built) appeared several times in newspapers directly after this dream (when I had not given that much thought or notice to it before - assuming it had been in some sort of incidental publishing cluster previously). There is also a clear connection between “jury-rigged” and “jerry-built” which implies similar associations and plays. As usual, I had not paid much attention to this associative play until after my dream.

Something does go wrong in my dream, and it seems Jerry may have to live on the moon for an extended period of time. At one point I see him driving a “moon buggy” which the technicians also instruct him to repair through the windows of my house. Eventually, I am not sure if my house itself is a holographic projection or, perhaps more likely, somehow already there on the “moon” and the scientists inside being the holographic projection (the real-life school play was similar in that regard in that we talked directly out of the rocket set to our other classmates who were acting as technicians and scientists sitting at a table across the classroom). However, over time, Jerry does have to build a shelter out of parts of the lunar lander and “moon buggy” and several other pieces. He does not seem worried in any way at all. I only note concern in the scientist’s manner and speech. There is no resolution - he is simply to stay there for the length of my dream at least, but I do get the sense he may die there. (I believe there is an association in my moving to Wisconsin from Florida around this time - to get away from both the oppressive isolation and extremely negative events that had transpired - though I had only been in Wisconsin for a short time at the time of this dream.)

The associations with Jerry Lewis were more related to an article after my dream regarding Sammy Davis Jr. (with only minor mention of Lewis) and reference to the following:

His musical “Stop the World. I Want to Get Off” (also vaguely associated in-dream).

The (partial) line “…McCormick Place’s impossibly vast and dismayingly institutional Aire Crown Theater”. The name is like my prior neighbor’s and “Aire Crown” seems to relate to the astronaut in some ways (as being “king” on the moon). (Jerry seems quite confident and at ease and willing to serve, it seems - with no sense of potential danger.)

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