lucid

"So ends the ride that lasted a lifetime..."

One dream only, but it was long, and captivating. (this is the closest I've ever been to being lucid[might as well call it a lucid dream 'cause it doesn't get any more vivid than this], but that wasn't important to me, I felt like I've been here before, There's burning questions that I need to have answered; this dream feels incomplete)


I had just reached the shores on what felt like a long journey across the sea, but alas, I was a foot on land and ready to begin my next journey searching for "it"; the black gate. The ground was nothing more that dried sand and gravel as I hear & feel the ocean shore brush up slowly against my feet. I began trekking forward slowly wandering into the deep forest that lay ahead awaiting to see what existed on the other side. I didn't know how long or how big this forest was, but I didn't come this far just to turn back. It was already night time, and the sky it self was pitch black; so dense, the stars themselves did not shine. It was days before I started to feel like I was going nowhere, time however had not changed at all, still the black sky, dead trees all around me, fog and cold air biting my skin with each step forward I take. But a dim light of hope shed itself on me when I noticed a small clearing a few miles ahead. This was enough motivation for me to keep pushing and find my way out of this barren wasteland.

A few hours of slow painstaking navigation later, and I'm there. Finally, I've found it: What look like mortar & stone stretching over 100 ft tall and extending infinite miles in each direction, I had reached the black gate. I began noticing a low rumbling sound of thunder, but there were no clouds around for miles. Suddenly, I heard a very loud crackling sound followed by more deep rumbles (enough to shake the earth around me) "more lightning?" I thought, but no. It wasn't lightning at all, it was the gates themselves. They were opening....


What stood beyond the other side of this monstrosity of a wall was just jaw dropping. What I saw simply can not be explained through the English language. More importantly now, my true quest began: the search for the castle. (I can't remember why, but there was something I wanted, something I needed from that place and It held all the answers). I knew this was going to be a long journey from the start, but I was almost there and the finish line was in sight. A few thousand miles felt like nothing to me now knowing where I was going to be. I took my first step forward through the gates while taking in another deep breathe of the musky air and watching up at the sky, Strangely enough I saw one star....the North star. It was like looking at a glimmer of hope that what I would find in this place would be what I am looking for. It was just like the rest of my dream, endless trudging through the land that never ended, but with every step I was THAT much closer....


It had been weeks, almost months of traveling and then, it was there, I could see it through the mist. My skin began crawling with goosebumps, and my blood turning cold. I was there. It was only 500 miles away, but that was nothing to me. I was there. Finally, I had reached my destination; Standing before me was this glorious stone tower that stood ominously, peaking over the clouds with a bright force emanating through its walls. I took a deep breathe and stepped forward pushing both doors open only to be filled with the brightest most illuminating white light I could only imagine in my dreams. It was everything I had hoped it would be, and more. But things took a turn for the worst. Everything around me began fading, the light withered away along with the world, my time was up....

"Between misty vales
Between gloomy mountains
Under gray clouds
In the black night
In black clothes
An eternity of cold
Over stone and wood
In the shadows...
Out from the mist
Out from darkness
Out from the big shadows of the mountain
The castle of the dream...
So ends the ride
That lasted a lifetime
For the master goes (in the castle of the dream)"