cydonia1978

Another one of my Disneyland dreams. I'm annoyed with my subconscious. I want to go back to Disneyland so badly IRL that I keep having these dreams. And as fun as they are, they're never as good as the real place. Sigh. Anyway, where to start today? I think the earliest memory I have is that there was something going on that the Haunted Mansion wasn't open at the moment. First off, the whole place felt more like a big county fair (or what I imagine a county fair would be like.. We don't have those in BC) rather than the real Disneyland. It certainly didn't look like Disneyland at all, and I only knew it to be DL because I had the sense that it was.. And there were certain "attractions" that I knew to be DL attractions, even if they barely looked like the real thing.

So yeah, the Haunted Mansion was actually more like a big stage show and it was currently closed for another stage show - some kind of musical act. It reminded me of Delhi to Dublin (*great group IRL, look them up!), but I didn't actually see them perform in the dream so I don't know if really was them. R and I were there together and I was thinking about getting souvenirs. I was also wondering when we had to leave. I figured we'd already been there two days or so, and we had another full day after this day before we had to go home. That made me very happy and I hoped we would spend as much time at the park as we could before leaving.

I remember wandering around looking for special souvenirs. I already had the classics that I wanted (IRL I have these): Mickey & Minnie stuffed toys, a shirt, a mug, mouse-ear hats... So I wasn't sure what else I really wanted to buy, I just knew I wanted something from this trip.

I didn't actually get to buying anything. At some point we ended up back at our hotel. Except now it wasn't just us. There was a group of us and we were trying to coordinate what we were doing. I don't know how many people there were and I don't know if they were all our IRL friends or what. I don't remember that part. All I know is I was getting annoyed because there were suggestions of other things besides going back to Disneyland (IRL I wouldn't have been that weird about it.. I do like doing other things in California!!). At one point I went into a bedroom and there was a little baby boy laying in the bed. He was maybe 6-8 months old, I don't know. He was happy enough, comfy and safe. He didn't look "normal", though. He didn't necessarily look handicapped but he didn't look normal either.

The next thing I remember is we were arriving back at the hotel again and now we were being told we had been moved to other rooms. There were too many of us in this one room and also, it had been booked by someone else and we were extending our stay so we had to move. There was a lot of stuff to move (for some reason it was almost like we had been living there), so we were annoyed with having to move. I don't remember much about the actual moving itself.

Another time shift and now I was alone in a room, packing a daypack. I always loved making sure I had all the essentials in one bag when going to a place like Disneyland. I was alone, everyone else was off doing stuff. I had a vague memory of a restaurant. R was also off.. I got the feeling like he was at work or just otherwise busy and wouldn't be back until later. I suddenly realized, why was I bothering to wait around here for him? I should just go to Disneyland on my own and kill time until he could join me. Why not?

I got prepared to leave. I was hungry, and found a sandwich in my daypack that had been saved from the restaurant we'd been at earlier (as per the vague memory of it). That made me happy, though I don't remember eating it. I headed out to go to DL, thinking about how it was sometimes fun to go to a place like that on your own and be free to go anywhere without asking anyone else what they felt like doing.

I don't remember actually getting there though. Next thing I remember is heading there with R and saying we should enter through one of the "back" entrances, for a different view. IRL there are no "back" entrances to Disneyland but in previous dreams I've had there was one Disneyland dream where we found other ways to enter the park besides the front. So I was remembering that in this dream and wanting to go that way again.

And that's it. I don't remember anything else. I woke up multiple times during all this, so although I'm writing it as one dream it was actually more like 7 separate dream times. Can you tell it's my "weekend"? I was in bed from midnight to 11am. Gotta love having the time to dream like that!! No lucid, though. I did try... Every time I woke up I went back to sleep with the thought of lucid dreaming, but no go. I also attempted the WILD technique, but I was too sleepy all around and fell asleep before dreaming. Too bad, since I slipped into dreams almost as soon as my body fell asleep, so it was probably a pretty good start to the WILD technique.