My dad had given me some weather info that I was supposed to take to the Channel 7 news office. I ran downtown and into the office, which was on a stage. I had to run past all the audience chairs and down to the stage level to ask where the person in charge of weather was. I was nervous about this, as I was only familiar with Jim Flowers, and he wasn't the morning guy (it was morning at this time). They directed me into an office through a side door on the stage, and there was a mid-30s man sitting at a desk. I asked him if he was the weather guy, and he said yes, so I gave him the paper and said that this was the info he requested. He said that it was, but that he couldn't take it, because my dad had written it on the back of some instructions. If he kept the paper, my dad wouldn't know how to do whatever it was those instructions instructed. So instead of copying down the information, he sent me away.

When I walked out, I found I was in the church yard along 23rd street in Auburn. My dad, Uncle Denny, and cousin Wade were playing football on the sidewalk and grass area. I asked them what they were doing, and they told me that they were going to go to church, but they found this football so they decided to play instead. I played for a while too, but then we all got tired and climbed into the back of Uncle Denny's pickup (note: this pickup was later sold to my dad sometime in the mid- to late-80s, yet this dream took place in the present or pretty close to it). He had the camper shell on it, and I specifically remember looking at the Missouri Tigers bumper sticker on the wall. There were bunks built in there, so we were all going to take a nap. However, before we could get situatied, Wade peed on me and stained my clothes. I got out of the camper and started yelling at Wade.

Before I could get too into my ranting, I heard the theme song from "In the Heat of the Night" playing from somewhere. I looked around, and then I started to see the trailer in 3d...the deep announcer's voice was telling about how young boys' bones were being found in the area around Sparta. (I don't remember if that's the name of the town in the show, but that's what it was in the dream) I was all excited, because that was my favorite episode (in real life, it was the bones of young women). In order to remember being in the middle of it all, I wanted to get a snapshot of one of the buildings that had materialized with the beginning of this episode. I stood up on a street looking at a building that could easily have been a high school built in the first half of the century slightly down hill from me. The church was gone; I was in an entirely different world now, but I definitely had a camera.

There was something else--I could hear music. It was faint, but I could hear it. My sister Monica was standing down the street a ways, and I told her I could hear it, but she either couldn't hear it or didn't care. Also, she couldn't have been any older than 10 at this point. I listened more carefully, and realized that it was "Smooth Operator" by Sade. I thought "That's odd...that song is pretty old to just be hearing out of nowhere." When it ended, I heard the voice of Sunny Valentine, the daytime DJ on 102.7 KFRX, a radio station in Lincoln. She talked for a while, and mentioned the date--November 7, 1984!! Then it occured to me--I was somehow picking up old radio waves that were still bouncing around on the earth's surface!! This was a broadcast made 13 years earlier! That was a very chilling realization to me. She then led up to the next song by saying it was the new one from Chris Isaak. I commented to myself that I didn't know he had a career then. Sure enough, it was a song I knew, but one that I had never known the artist. Still freaked out that I was hearing what should have been a long-dead transmission, I caught up with Monica and we continued walking down the street, which was now bordered on both sides by tall golden grass, with no buildings in sight.

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