Another night, another odd dream.
In this dream I was given an appointment to see an ophthalmologist at 85 Alcott Tower–a new building I had never been to before.
As usual Dave drove me to the appointment. We had instructions to park at the top of the ramp. As we went up I saw several people, each inserting a capsule into a pneumatic tube system. Those systems use air pressure and vacuum to move the capsules from one place to another. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen or used one but they used to be common in stores, offices, and drive-through banks.
We parked and started walking down a hallway. I saw a guy place a capsule in a tube but it didn’t go anywhere. Then a saw a person carrying a couple of capsules down a hallway. Odd.
Eventually we reached a glass door with the number 85 on it. We went through it to find a stairway that went down half a floor. Down there we found another glass door with the number 85 on it. Going through that door we found ourselves outside on a sort of balcony type walkway.
Looking left we saw a toy store with a sign saying 85 Alcott Tower. So we went there and I told the clerk I had an appointment to see an ophthalmologist at this address. Then said, “Yes, I’ll take you back.”
Then I realized the shop was only one counter deep and it only sold vision toys. I saw a kaleidoscope, an old-fashioned stereopticon, a ViewMaster, and a pair of binoculars next to a bird identification book.
So, I was in the right place it just had an odd presentation.
So what was all this about?
On a recent visit to my optometrist, she discovered I have both cataracts and glaucoma. Cataracts are a thickening of the lens in your eye that causes loss of vision but can be cured by lens replacement surgery. Glaucoma is an increase of pressure in the eye that can damage the optical nerve eventually causing blindness.
So I need to schedule cataract surgery. In the meantime, I have drops to put in my eyes every night to reduce the pressure and an appointment mid-January to see how that is working.
I wonder if that toy store sells audio books?
TTYL,
Linda
WOW. I’m speechless. and for me that’s rare.
I remember those capsule things. they were in dept stores. I was fascinated by them!
In the 1960s I was in the UK and both of the department stores I worked in had those capsules – some came to me in accounts which also dealt with “foreign checks” – in the other store they came to me as the head cashier… In the first store we could see them coming as the shuttle race had a clear top to them…in the ceiling. At lunchtime, we would all be on deck as they would come thick and fast – some didn’t need looking at right then, depended on what the capsule cover colour was.
I’m sorry about your eye troubles, glaucoma runs in my family but to too date I appear never to be on that spectrum even those the local optician is always sure I am, off to eye clinic and then I return it’s stated “well I never…”