Thread: The Staircases 04-09-2011

This story is of a dream i had about a month and a half ago before lucid dreaming, and it is not a lucid dream however it embodied a perfect world and almost a story for me to follow, i had a friend paint this dream for me and it now actually serves as a reminder to my goals in life

The Staircases

PART 1= The Trail
I was in a random park unknown to me and me and my 2 best friends in the world Erik, and
Savannagh were walking with me. suddenly an old man appeared on our path and spoke to us "I can no longer hide the place from you and you must get there yourself, i am only here to tell you that you must follow the path your on and you will reach it...you will reach it"
then just as suddenly as he has came hi body disappeared slowly into the air like a puff of smoke from a candle.
Me and my 2 friends pondered this man but no sooner did we come across a strange path in the blackberry bushes that was being overgrown by nature and wasnt used much.
I decided to be te adventurer and make my way down the path, the prickles moved away from me but they di the opposite for my friends; instead my friends were being blocked out from the prickles and were not being aloud to follow me. Sadly i kept going because i remember what the man said... (voice in my head " you must get there yourself..." )
and as he said i did.

PART 2= The Steps

The pasth finally grew out and dissapeared into the bushes where none could follow.
i lookd to my left and saw a curved colbestone staircase with only four long steps and jagged and weathered. Looking out there was a sunset and the ocean past these stairs, but the werent the only ones. below me were 4 other sets of staircases all making their way down to the end of the cliff that descended slowly towards the end in a typical downward fation.
I notice people standing on 2 of the four staircases, it was Erik and Savannagh, i guess they had their own path to take, one in which im sure i woulndt be aloud to follow.
Without any haste my staircase drastically began to change to the perfect world for me; snow began to fall heavily, appearing from no clouds but just there like the light from the sun.
My staircase was soon dissapearing under the snow but could still se the coblestone steps underneath, small twigs and bushes grew through the cracks on the stairs and to the side of them, soon to be covered in snow like you would see a tree in snow.
Finally many grizzley bears surrounded my steps and one in particular came and sat down beside me, towering my figure but still being as harmless as ever, i looked at him and he looked at me and he seemed like a general friend that i coul count on... I was in Heaven.

Following the drastic changes to my staircase i realized that Eriks and Savannaghs were changing also. I looked at my friends coblestone steps, Savannaghs began to gro thick long strands of yellow grass between its cracks, something your would see in the african safari, and next to that two humongous tree sprouted beside her housing a pair of owls that flew off into the sunset beyond the ocean, it was just as beautiful as my own staircase, but in its own way. As was Eriks, as i looked over to see that his coblestone steps were weathers by sand mistilly making its way across the stones and depositing itself on them. His clothing and hair and the sand blew in an imaginary wind that didnt exist in my staircase world. As for the final 2 staircases, they remained empty nobody entered them, and nothing changed them they remained untouched, awaiting their owner to personolize the blissfull staircases.

PART 3= The Message

Finally after sitting there ad just thinking of where i was and how nice it is i saw some smoke coming into view, my grizzley bear friends stood up and the one beside me put his paw on my chest before turning around and leaving. I looked back and waved goodbye and he waved back, and as i turned around te old man i saw before was right infront of me, floating off the edge of my staircase. He looked at me with a face that shared many different thaught and said " These steps are the ones you are looking for but right now you are not on the fourth step, you are merly on the first and you must make sure you do your best to reach this step because it marks peace for you as does the final step for your friends but they must make that journey on their own" His voice was hoarse and rough, but i didnt understand what he wanted me to do, the snow was melting and i was being moved down to the staircase.
"Why can't i stay?" i asked almost in tears for the fact that i might not see this place again.
"Because you are not yet here yet however you may come here again in due time but for now you must leave, step your right foot forward and keep going." then he dissapeared.

I took the advice and made my steps down the path and out of the bushes where i walked out only to look bck once at what i wished was true. I saw Erik and Savannagh come from thir own paths and we joined together, nobody said any words, we just looked at eachother adn smiled then we walked out of the park adn the sun went under the horizon.

THE END

( this dream is my favorite one and is actually one of my main reasons for becoming lucid, so i can revisit my staircase, i personally believe it was a dream telling me to work hard and stay on the right path and i will live that fourth step in everyday life... since that dream i have)

[ i would like ot hear your guys feedback on the dream and what it might mean to you if you were me in the dream. what might the other missing staircases be... i think they are people i am ment to meat in my life that i havnt met yet]