memorable

I am playing Minecraft. Well, living it, not playing it. I am literally inside the world. I think suddenly, "Duh, I'm dreaming ." I plug my nose to make sure of this. Yup!

I don't feel any different. No "pop" of clarity. No sense of freedom. No excitement. Nothing. My sense of touch doesn't even work.

I get up off the ground and fly. This is easy, seeing as flying is a natural thing in Minecraft. But again, I don't feel any exhilaration in the act of flying...

I remembered people saying it was fun doing math inside a dream so I try that out. I end up saying, "2,4,6,8. Hm."

Not very fun.

As I'm flying around, I try and manipulate the generation of the world. I try making mountains form. Nope. Didn't work. I see a river and dive in, thinking about performing a RC. I dive underwater, and breathe. Yup, still dreaming.

I try twirling around to change the dream scene. (Who wants to dream about Minecraft?) I twirl around, and end up in another Minecraft world. I try about 5 times, and end up losing my lucidity.

On the last try, I end up sitting at my house in front of the fireplace, reading a magazine. "Hey," I think. "I could use this in my dreams!"

I wake up.

How lame.

I am inside a fancy restaurant. It is a medium sized room, with several round tables and white tablecloths draped over them. Two of the walls are made entirely of glass. Everyone is eating at their tables when suddenly, two beeps ring out, like the ones on an airplane that signal the "put your seat-belts on" button. My choir director, Nina, talks through the speakers. "Sorry, folks, we will be experiencing some bumps in the road! I think they call it... turbulence?"

I sit down on the nearest chair, and look out of the glass wall. What I see is exhilarating. We are high in the air. It is very cloudy and it is snowing. A lot. We hit a few turbulence bumps and take a small dive, revealing that we are quite a bit closer to the ground than I originally thought. Now, we are about too inches off the ground, on a highway, dodging cars, while going at 100 mph. Whoo!!!

After about five minutes of car-dodging action, the highway comes to an abrupt end; we are on a cliff! Everyone gasps as we shoot over the sheer edge. The clouds part, and the sun shines, revealing that we are now 1000 feet above ground! The scene below us is breath-taking. It is a large town (not a city) with gorgeous green lawns, red and blue roofs, blue skies, and even a beach with tall palm trees! We fly over the city, like a majestic eagle, for a few seconds. Then we turn to the right and start to gently glide downwards. Nina lands us in the parking lot of a McDonalds.

I get out, along with Nina and her mother. We get into a random red convertible and Nina starts driving. Her mom and I are talking, when Nina parks the car.

We get out to see a dark, brown, grim brick building. "It must be the only dark building in the whole town," I think. We head inside, and I sit on an old white couch as Nina and her mom go downstairs for a meeting. I sit there, feeling terrible about the place for a long time. When Nina and her mom finally come out of the meeting, I feel sick. We leave the building, and as I take in the beautiful town once more, I feel better. Begore we get in the car, I ask Nina, with my back turned on the building, what she does to get rid of bad feelings. "Well," she says, "I don't let myself trust them. I know they can do me no good."

I turn around. The dark building is gone.

When I woke up from this dream, I marveled at the advice my subconscious had given me. "Wow" was all I could say!