The Inbetween

**redrabbit** · 04-04-2008 10:03 PM

Once, while drifting off to sleep, I was given the option to go directly into my dream, or to take the side-road.

Of course, I was in the mood for an adventure...

Though I was slowly working my way into the unconscious, I was aware and in control - I would describe the feeling as a 'casual' lucid dream. I knew I was dreaming, but I really just wanted to check out the scenery.

As I entered, I passed through a stone archway into a dimly lit house. All around me were other dreamers, and at once I knew it to be the place inbetween dreams. It was thick with a feeling of urgence and destination, and everyone was either coming or going; some came from places I had never heard of. A young man brushed past me on his way to the archway I had come through. "Have you ever been there before?" I asked him.

"No."

He seemed to be in a hurry to experience what was on the other side, so I shouted him a quick warning: "Just stay off the roads, they have things called 'cars' out there."

There were so many options within that place, and so many ways to help design your own dreams. Destinations set aside for newcomers that were easy to cope with and fun-at-heart. Others were more severe, and were reserved for well-weathered dreamers and stoics.

But, being my first time, I was reluctant to leave the place. I wandered for a while, and deep in the back I found crowded rooms with people hunched over glowing pools of light.

They were the dream engineers, and their minds piped into the thoughts of the people who came and went through that place.

And so I sat and watched them work, helping people overcome nightmares and learn life-lessons through dreams. I was amazed at how hard they worked for others, dreaming to help others dream.

In so many ways, this place reminded me of that dream when I first came here. I also thought it would be the best place to ask: Has anyone else gone there?

Thanks for your time,
-Rr

**whitby_jet** · 04-04-2008 10:11 PM

Wow, what a great dream

. I can't say I've ever been there, but I have been 'taught' things in dreams, learned lessons about life and deep, deep questions that understood perfectly at the time.... but they became hazy on waking. My last lucid dream developed into a kind of physics lesson, where I learned that different people's dreams can interact in an overlapping kind of way, each person seeing the other but in a different context. As I said, it made sense at the time...

**Iamerik** · 04-04-2008 10:16 PM

Nice.

I had something similar before. An 'in between' place. I was given the option between 3 dreams, and was supposed to just walk through a painting in super mario 64 style. But when I was about to enter the dream of my choice some guy walked up to me saying that I've already used their services 6 times (I didn't), and that that was the maximum.

Glad to hear that your experience was more fun!

**theSheep** · 04-05-2008 02:18 AM

Originally Posted by Iamerik

Nice.

I had something similar before. An 'in between' place. I was given the option between 3 dreams, and was supposed to just walk through a painting in super mario 64 style. But when I was about to enter the dream of my choice some guy walked up to me saying that I've already used their services 6 times (I didn't), and that that was the maximum.

Glad to hear that your experience was more fun!

Ha! I thought of mario 64 before you said it lol

That is a really cool dream, I'm gonna try to get one like that...