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Dream
Semi Lucid
Lucid

I traveled to Egypt with my father. In real life I've never been to Egypt before. The dream started in a tour bus that was driving through the Sahara desert. We were inside the bus. There were many tourists inside the bus. The bus was an old one, and it was quite cramped. All the seating spaces, and nearly almost all the standing spaces were taken. Even worse, each of the tourists had a huge backpack with him/her, and it took up almost as much space as the person, even though the bus was filled with way too many people for safety regulation, I think. Someone even transported a goat, a chicken, and a pig inside the bus! No space for moving anywhere. And in the back corner of the bus I see this ladder. It was made of I think, hollow metal tubes or pipes. It was just like this one, except all old and rusty, to match the aged interior of the bus.

The ladder was built in the bus, anchored to the floor, and went up one of the walls. Seeing it, I shove my way past the tourists, with great difficulty, but I finally get to it, and start climbing up it. I climbed up through a hole in the roof, and I see the bus has another deck on the roof. This second deck on the roof, was entirely open to the elements, but fortunately, the weather was nice. There were no seats on the roof. The second deck was surrounded by a metal railing on it's perimeter, to keep people from falling off the bus. I was surprised that there were no tourists who had climbed to the top of this deck like I did. The only people here were 3 old men with long gray/white beards. They were seating on the colorful rugs positioned directly on the roof floor. They were seating in the lotus position, meditating and praying to Allah. From here the dream shifted to the next scene.

I, my father, and the tourists, are all standing in a semicircle around an underground entrance to the tomb. Our tour guide is standing in the entrance and explaining to us the history of this tomb, who built it, when, and why. I pay no attention to what he says, but rather to my surroundings and the people who are with me. I notice that the bus has left, and mention that it would have taken half an hour to unload everyone, so cramped it was.

The tour guide goes inside the tomb and mentions us to come along, and we follow. He warns us against damaging any artifacts, stepping on any trap doors... We went down a series of low, flat, broad steps, careful not to hit head against the ceiling. Inside the tomb is much more expansive and extends underground in a maze of different brightly painted rooms, with murals and hieroglyphs.


I remember the walls being brightly painted as such. The tourists quickly spread out to explore all the different passageways in the tombs. One room would always lead to another and another. Exploring this place felt just like a video game. Indeed, there was a small screen display in the corner of my vision that showed me a localized floor plan of the complex. The rooms were dimly lit with no apparent light source, as if coming from the walls themselves. I do not remember much of the details about this underground tomb room complex, I only remember exploring it and it was very fun. Exploring this place, it became apparent to me that it spread outwards in two dimensions, no 3 I thought, when there were some steps going up or down. Occasionally I saw other tourists too. Then I came into a room bigger then the rest, and there was a steps going up, kinda like in this picture.


I went up the steps, and emerged in the upper part of this temple complex that was built above the ground.


This part was no less extensive than the underground tomb part I was just in. I spent a considerable amount of time exploring it. There a more aged and weathered look. And I look up around, and I see the Giza pyramids to my left side, and then Karnak Anubis Temple to my right side, and the place I was in was between the two. I though that was weird, since both these historical sites are actually hundreds of miles from each other, but I didn't become lucid. I went to the front entrance to this complex, and there was a gift shop there. They sold cookies. I didn't have any money. An Egyptian man volunteered to buy me a cookie, but when I said that I spent all my money to buy souvenirs, he said that I was foolish to do so, and left. I took photos of pharaoh statues. After that I found my father and we went by foot to the Sphynx, but our path to it was blocked by a kind of Islamic market. We entered it. There were spices and pretty colorful rugs for sale.


There were dogs, pigs, and chickens for sale, sat in the wooden wire cages. There were fishes for sale in huge baskets of salt. There were papyrus reed boats for sale. We walked around but did not buy anything.