Charles E. Burchfield's Dreams, Journals, March 5, 1942

Dreams –              

1. One of enormous caves, one a huge cone-like cavity as I imagine the interior of a wasps-nest might look; opposite it a deep black cave. 

2. Walking east across country South of Orangeburg, came to the cheese-factory road where I see that the whole countryside eastward is strangely without snow. Spring, plowing has even been going on in a field adjoining the road. In a low place where the field runs along a wood, I see two men standing by an old barn. As I walked toward them they scowled at me; and when I came up they told me to get out; that they knew what I was snooping around for. I suspected they were fleeing from the police; and later I was in the sheriff’s office, and they had been arrested. They looked at me bitterly, and accused me of giving them away to the police. I had not done so.

3. Driving a car in the Zoar Valley. All at once I stood outside the car, the wheel in my hand which was attached to the steering gear with a long wire of rope. The car went on of itself, though it seemed I controlled the steering from where I was. Finally the car disappeared over a hill, and when I was worried and wondered whether the car might run into something, there appeared, upside down, above and beyond the hill, an image of the scene behind the hill – as if by the power of my wish and imagination. I saw that farmers with team of horses pulling a loaded hay wagon were coming along the road. It seemed a terrific effort for me to “pull” my car to one side in time, but I did so.

Charles E. Burchfield, March 5, 1942