Bladinus

This is a non lucid recurring dream of mine which I have been having for years.

When I was a kid, I knew of quite a few places which were magical in their own way. Places that the adults in my life just couldn’t quite grasp the importance of. A forest, filled with half-realized hopes and monsters which tore down trails at break-neck speeds. A field, which was so obviously a native burial ground to my young mind, and yet for every place of wonder or adventure there is always at least one place which is just wrong. An abandoned house a mile away which local legend holds to be haunted. Such places just feel bad, dried-out, used-up. If I had to pick one way to describe the place where this dream took me it would be just that-used up.
So far as dreams go, this one starts out pretty slow and uninteresting. I wander, it feels as though I have been wandering for a long while. I can feel a deep sense of thirst at the back of my throat, but I know that there is no water. I am in the middle of a most peculiar desert for some reason that I can’t quite put my finger on. On some level, I know that this is a journey which I have made before. The desert surrounding me on all sides glitters in the moonlight with a crystalline beauty which does nothing to dispel that sense of wrongness. I look off into the distance “North?” and can make out several large crystalline spires in the distance. The ground itself, even the omnipresent wind in this area all shimmer with that same beauty as the spires. Rather than this desert being made out of sand, it is made out of salt.
I make my way to the closest one of the spires and am rewarded for my trouble with the sight of an absolutely massive beached warship. It seemed that the salt from the area had built up on and all around this boat, eventually the boat had become one with the salt spire itself. I am just about to walk up to the large gash in the bottom of the ship when I abruptly wake up, just the way that I always do at this point. I was really hoping to get farther this time.