JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/08 8:50 PM
I just woke up a few minutes ago from I guess about 5 or 6 hours of sleep. I still feel exhausted. I am now wondering of the series of scenes and images in one dream was actually a representation of my flight into space as the commander of the first space shuttle launch.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/08 8:54 PM
There dream, though, seemed to be set on the USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG-7. I am not certain how I linked that setting to FFG-7 but I am certain I was on a FFG-7 class ship and the notion lingers in my mind that it was the FFG-7.
In a somewhat confusing part, I walked out of a room with two people in it, where a junior person was getting a medal, for someone reason, as I was looking on, onto the weatherdeck. The person who had got the medal, which was a medal I can visualize but that I do not recognize, followed out onto the deck, I think. I can still visualize the calm blue water and also looking out onto the shore and the sky line of some city we were near but that I cannot recognize either after waking up. I do remember that I commented to the other person that I enjoyed being back out to sea, and I feel compelled to note that I might have said to him that I enjoyed especially being out to sea when we we just floating around, as we were then. Then, for some strange reason, I was over the edge of the deck and I was hanging onto the low railing, trying to keep myself from falling over into the water. But the gravity was strange and that might be why that part seems weird, in retrospect of the dream. I almost want to say that my feet were drifting upwards instead of downwards towards the ocean. I cannot remember what happened next. On one hand, it seems understand that I was hanging onto that railing but I am also somewhat baffled, as I ponder the dream after waking up, why I was even hanging from that railing in the first place.
In another dream sequence, I was on small boat and that sequence is, I think, connected to that first sequence about FFG-7. It seems we had taken a small boat closer to shore but I cannot remember any details to support that notion. I can still visualize some of the scenery but I do not understand it all very well. I do remember another small boat passing us by and I am quite certain that Camilla, Duchess of York, was on it. There is some other detail associated with that observation that I cannot now remember. I can remember there were other people on the boat with her and I assume Prince Charles was there also. Back on my boat, I was talking about some kind of cove that was in the lake or ocean we were on and there seemed to be something important about that cove, in that I wanted to go in there but I don't think we did in that dream. I remember I was trying to describe certain details of that cove to the other person as they would see it while approaching the cove. At another point, I told someone that I could not remember when I learned to swim. I made some other comments on that topic that I do not remember now.
I also remember something, vaguely, about Iceland, maybe. Something related to flying aircraft. Perhaps I was stationed at some point as a pilot in Iceland. I remember hearing some comments about someone's skills as an aircraft pilot. I remember something about looking at an aircraft runway and seeing the remains of the de-icer material they use. This all seemed to happen as I was sitting on the boat and I could actually see those other locations, such as the runway and the office, while I was in another far away location. That might be the result of remembering a past experience while having a dream. Something like that. A memory within a memory. I also remember sitting there in that boat that I was holding some kind of award plaque but I cannot remember what was writting on that award plaque. I think the award plaque had been given to Jim Lovell but I am not certain what that means. I can still visualize certain words on it but I cannot remember enough to describe those words. I remember that some letters were missing in the words.
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 3/14/1965 ( I am active duty Central Intelligence Agency officer ) is: 607 days
From 3/14/1965 ( I am active duty Central Intelligence Agency officer ) to 11/11/1966 ( I was Gemini 12 spacecraft astronaut ) is: 607 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_12
Launch: November 11, 1966
Landing: November 15, 1966
Gemini 12 (officially Gemini XII) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.
Crew
Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission.
James A. Lovell, Jr (2) - Command Pilot
Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr (1) - Pilot
From 5/1/1967 ( my first flight by myself as a jet pilot ) to 7/27/1972 ( I was test pilot for the F-15 Eagle fighter jet ) is: 1914 days
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 10/11/1968 ( I was Apollo 7 spacecraft astronaut ) is: 1914 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-15_Eagle
27 July 1972
The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F-15 Eagle is an all-weather tactical fighter designed to gain and maintain air superiority in aerial combat. It was developed for the U.S. Air Force, and first flew in July 1972. The F-15E Strike Eagle derivative is an all-weather strike fighter that entered service in 1989.
http://www.boeing.com/history/mdc/eagle.htm
F-15 Eagle Tactical Fighter
July 27, 1972
From 5/12/1965 ( I am active duty U.S. Navy aviator ) to 12/17/1977 ( USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG 7 commissioned ) is: 4602 days
From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) to 10/9/1971 ( I am board-certified surgeon ) is: 4602 days
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/FFG7.htm
OLIVER HAZARD PERRY (FFG 7)
GUIDED MISSILE FRIGATE
Class: FFG 7
Commission Date: 12/17/1977
From 5/12/1965 ( I am active duty U.S. Navy aviator ) to 9/25/1976 ( USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG 7 launched ) is: 593 weeks, 3 days
'59-33' ( my birth date US )
From 11/11/1966 ( I was Gemini 12 spacecraft astronaut ) to 9/25/1976 ( USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG 7 launched ) is: 3606 days
3606 = 1803 + 1803
From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) to 2/9/1964 ( my final day as competitor at Innsbruck Olympics where I won Olympic gold medals ) is: 1803 days
From 11/15/1966 ( Gemini 12 spacecraft splashdown and I was Gemini 12 spacecraft astronaut ) to 9/25/1976 ( USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG 7 launched ) is: 3602 days
3602 = 1801 + 1801
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 2/6/1964 ( I was Olympic gold medalist at Innsbruck Olympics again on this day ) is: 1801 days
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/FFG7.htm
OLIVER HAZARD PERRY (FFG 7)
GUIDED MISSILE FRIGATE
Class: FFG 7
Launch Date: 09/25/1976
http://www.cswap.com/1986/Top_Gun/cap/en/25fps/a/00_17
Top Gun
:17:01
You're the top one percent
of all naval aviators.
:17:07
The elite. The best of the best.
We'll make you better.
:17:14
You fly at least two combat missions
a day, attend classes and evaluations.
:17:20
On each combat sequence you're
gonna meet a different challenge.
:17:27
We'll teach you to fly the F-14
faster than you've ever flown before.
:17:35
Now, we don't make policy here.
Elected officials, civilians, do that.
:17:41
We are their instruments and must
always act as though we are at war.
:17:49
- What are you doing?
- Just wondering who's the best.
:17:54
In case some of you wonder
who the best is, they're on this plaque.
:18:00
The best driver and his RIO
from each class has his name on it.
:18:05
They have the option to come back here
and be Top Gun instructors.
:18:11
- You think you will be on the plaque?
- Yes, sir.
:18:16
That's pretty arrogant,
considering the company you're in.
:18:23
- Yes, sir.
- I like that in a pilot.
:18:29
Remember, when it's over out there,
we're all on the same team.
:18:36
This school is about combat.
There are no points for second place.
18:43
- Dismissed.
- Nice going.
:18:48
The plaque for the alternates
is down in the ladies' room.
:18:55
Jesus ... You kill me.
:18:58
You really do ...
There's two O's in Goose, boys.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1966-104A
Gemini 12
Launch Date: 1966-11-11
Gemini 12 was the tenth and final flight of the Gemini series, which bridged the Mercury and Apollo programs. This mission, carrying astronauts Jim Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, was scheduled to perform rendezvous and docking with the Agena target vehicle, to conduct three ExtraVehicular Activity (EVA) operations, to conduct a tethered stationkeeping exercise, to perform docked maneuvers using the Agena propulsion system to change orbit, and demonstrate an automatic reentry.
The first standup EVA took place with the hatch opening at 11:15 a.m. EST (19:29 GET) on 12 November and Aldrin standing on his seat with his upper body out of the hatch. The EVA lasted 2 hours 29 minutes during which Aldrin mounted a camera to the side of the spacecraft and collected a micrometeorite experiment, with the hatch closing at 1:44 p.m. On 13 November at 7:16 a.m. the crew reported little or no thrust was available from two of the maneuvering thrusters. At 10:34 a.m. (42:48 GET) the hatch was opened for the second EVA. Aldrin was outside the spacecraft at 10:38, attached to a 9 meter umbilical cord. He first worked in the hatch and nose area, and then moved along a handrail he had installed to the adapter section where he used foot restraints and tethers to position himself in front of a work panel mounted on the rear of the adaptor where he performed 17 relatively simple manual tasks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oliver_Hazard_Perry
USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7), lead ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval hero, who was victorious at the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. Ordered from Bath Iron Works on 30 October 1973 as part of the FY73 program, Oliver Hazard Perry was laid down on 12 June 1975, launched on 25 September 1976, and commissioned on 17 December 1977.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 22, 2006
It's been years since I slept so well as last night.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:10:06 -0800 (PST)
From: "Kerry Burgess"
Subject: Sleep journal 2/25/06
To: "Kerry Burgess"
Had a few dreams but I don't remember any details. I remember at one point early into my sleep waking up and reminding myself to remember the dream and the song lyric fragment but I had forgotten them by the time I got up. I do remember at what seemed to be right before I got up, they said something about how bad it must be to have people screwing around with your mind. I think they said something like it must be bad to have people inside your head, or something like that. I feel so flattered to have such sympathetic dream terrorists.
My head hurts this morning. I slept soundly last night, but only because I go two or three nights with lousy sleep to the point that when I do sleep soundly, it is because I am exhausted. It is as easy sleeping in here as in a barn with all the people snoring. It smells like a barn in here too.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 21, 2006
I am certainly glad that The Kerry Show: Expedition To Pioneer Square has gone off the air. 10 months of that madhouse was more than enough, thank you very much. This new series, The Kerry Show: Back To The Shoreline, is much improved, Now With 10% More Privacy!, but I would sure rather have my own place. And it is hot in here too, but it is nothing like the misery I would be experiencing down at Pioneer Square.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 29, 2006
I hate being imprisoned here 4% less than I did being imprisoned in Pioneer Square.
This has also been a good exercise to suggest how I would behave in the future if I ever develop Alzheimer's. It was funny the other day; I was taking the bus down Aurora, I had just written something earlier in my journal about this feeling as though I was in the early stages of Alzheimers. I noticed a Holiday Inn Express had on their sign outside on the first line something about "continental breakfast." On the second line was "Alzheimer's Disease." I read it in the context of those commercials they run where people say things such as "I'm not really a brain surgeon, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night." It's clever and disturbing all at the same time. I doubt even Stephen King could write anything as disturbing as my reality every day.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 4, 2006
Didn't I read somewhere that the wreckage on the beach for those shots was from a Ten-Eleven?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1011
Lockheed L-1011
In the early 1990s, Orbital Sciences began to use a converted L-1011-100 named Stargazer to launch Pegasus rockets into orbit around Earth.
In the ABC television series Lost, the set piece of the crashed plane was a retired L-1011, although it was supposed to represent a Boeing 777. The plane, which formerly served for Delta Air Lines, was cut apart and barged to the filming location in Hawaii.
http://www.lost-tv.com/transcripts/Pilot_Lost.htm
JACK [off camera at first]: We must have been at about 40,000 feet when it happened. Hit an air pocket. Dropped, maybe, 200 feet. The turbulence was: I blacked out.
KATE: I didn't. I saw the whole thing. I knew that the tail was gone, but I couldn't bring myself to look back. And then the, the front of the plane broke off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_Away
Release date December 22, 2000
Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a perpetually hurried FedEx executive, is the sole survivor of a harrowing plane crash.
I don't know why this seems important:
http://www.quotesbase.com/celebs/84/
[reading label on port-a-potty that has washed ashore]
Chuck Noland : Bakersfield? BAKERSFIELD! BAKERSFIELD!
From 9/24/2005 to 7/21/2006 is: 300 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-300
Space shuttle missions designated STS-3xx (officially called Launch On Need missions) are rescue missions which would be mounted to rescue the crew of a Space Shuttle if their vehicle was damaged and deemed unable to make a successful reentry. Such a mission would be flown if Mission Control determined that the heat shielding tiles and reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) panels of a currently flying orbiter were damaged beyond the normal repair methods. These missions are also referred to as Launch on Demand (LOD).
The orbiter and four of the crew which were due to fly the next planned mission would be retasked to the rescue mission. The planning and training processes for a rescue flight would allow NASA to launch the mission within a period of 40 days of it being called up. During that time the damaged (or disabled) shuttle's crew would have to take refuge on the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS is able to support both crews for around 80 days, with oxygen supply being the limiting factor.[1] Within NASA, this plan for maintaining the shuttle crew at the ISS is known as Contingency Shuttle Crew Support (CSCS) operations.[2] Up to STS-121 all rescue missions were to be designated STS-300.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 11/11/07 1:32 AM
I can't remember now all the details of the dream earlier as I was sleeping but it seemed to be that I was in Clarence House. I can remember very clearly walking around in that house and it seemed as though there was a narrator at times but the details I was hearing escape my conscious awareness. I want to say that I was alone for the time I was in there and that I was staying there but yet I can vaguely remember seeing people around. I was aware of details of Charles, William, and Henry but I know specifically they were not there at the time. There was also something about a pair of dogs outside and the woman who controlled them but much of those details are vague. I was also pondering over the other houses nearby but associated details about that escape me as well. I was looking around a lot through the house and I can remember details fairly well but none of it seemed familiar so I don't know if those are actual memories that represent I have actually been in Clarence House. There also seemed to be some kind of point to the dream but that detail escapes me.
