I was Dreaming part 1

**livinggonzo** · 09-20-2011 06:39 AM

I had a Dream many years ago, my first lucid, and was very excited by it and wrote the whole thing down the second I woke up, it was easy to recall and stretched out into a short story, enjoy.

I was Dreaming

Suddenly I woke up, Im laying on the ground. The sky above me is bright and cloudless, the ground below me is soft and moist. As I get up I notice decayed buildings all around me, not futuristic or modern, but simple. They are made of a dark brown stone with moss and vines covering the walls and stairs. I walk around and don't even question how I got here because I'm overwhelmed with its beauty. The center I woke up at was round and shaded, with the buildings encircling around it, much like a courtyard. I walked through an archway in front of me and directly before my eyes was an ocean, the most beautiful anyone could ever see, with white sand and palm trees scattered along the coast. There were docks protruding out from the shore, still intact but seemed more like bridges, they too were of stone, not wood. Behind the palms was a city of stone buildings, they looked old and uninhabited, but the footsteps in the sand and the smoke raising from buildings proved life. I walked back into the buildings, through each archway were corridors to my left and right and stairs all around me for accessing the second and third floors. I saw the people doing their normal things, paying no attention to me, as if I lived there all my life. Some would stop to think before saying anything to me and that made me feel awkward and certainly, based on where I was, out of place. I took one of the corridors, with sunlight shining brilliantly through the top. Half of my path was shaded, the other had streaming light glazing upon the hanging plants and mossy stones. I took a couple stairs, not knowing where they would lead me, but I felt sure about where I was going. After seeing all that I could handle I stopped to rest and drink at a well that was in the center of another courtyard. After quenching my thirst I lied down and looked around me again, the buildings had windows with glass and the doors were of wood. The people were wearing modern looking clothes but very simple, just a shirt with one color and either pants or skirts. Some of the clothes looked torn or patched, but still resembling what we might wear today. I turn back around to look at the arch that I had walked through to get here and was startled to find a girl in front of me with her hands on her knees looking at me with a smile. She had short black hair, slightly to her shoulders and a very beautiful smile, her eyes were green and her age seemed much like mine. She wore shorts to her knees and a black tank top. The way her eyes moved back and forth scanning my body made her appear curious of me. She asked me my name, I told her, and she quickly gripped my hand to shake it. When she stopped shaking my hand she didn't let go, instead pulled me to my feet and said for me to follow her. We ran up and down stairs, back and forth through corridors, each just as beautiful. As she carried me along, taking me I don't know where, she explained more about herself. She was adventurous, outgoing, and had a great since of humor, but I didn't speak much besides the ever occurring "Where are we going?". After an exhilarating run and a list of every verb describing her we stopped somewhere on a second floor. I sat down and in front of me were two sets of stairs, the one on the left going to what looked like a tower and the one on the right went down into another corridor that turned left. From where I was I could see that the stairs were roofed by stone but through the corridor I could see the same beach I was at earlier. I must have been on a cape. As I turned around I could see the extent of the civilization, buildings covering most of the island, some as high as seven floors and some with dome roofs that sparkled in the reflection of the sun. When I turn back around I see my new friend laying on her stomach in a hammock-looking thing made of vines that hung from the stones over the stairs. She was smiling and then remembered to give me her name. she also says that she has something to show me but then I tell her that I have something to show her. I don't know why I did, I didn't even know where I was, but she said okay. She gets up and follows me up the stairs on the left, the ones that go up. We reach the top and go inside the building. From inside it looked like a watch tower, like it was used to look for something. Around us was a circle of windows with waist-high panels under them with some kind of technology on them. It resembled an airport control tower, but appeared old and useless yet it still flashed little lights and seemed to work. I went up to the panel closest to me, I could see the whole length of the island. I played around with the buttons and knobs, hoping something good would happen, but careless and ignorant of what it was for. My friend, who I couldn't remember her name though she just gave it to me earlier, came up to me concerned. she asked what I was doing and then her tone changed to a louder, stricter question, forcibly asking for an answer, but all I could say is I don't know. I should have stopped, but as the light around us shifted to darkness, I had the feeling it was too late for that. The sunny warm sky was covered up with dark clouds and cold winds. This tropical paradise didn't seem so beautiful now. The weather changed from a controlled day to a more real, unpredictable one. Something about this new sky made me feel it was true, that what I remembered earlier, the sun and heat, was just to cover it up. I watch the ocean change as darkness falls on it, the crashing surfs suddenly became choppy and murky, it looked dangerous. Then before my eyes the horizon disappeared, that endless ocean just vanished as if it were a theatrical backdrop that fell. The first thing that caught my eyes were the ruins of a skyscraper maybe a hundred yards from me, only half the building was standing, and the wall facing me was crumbled to the ground, where I could see the sectioned rooms. What was once offices and apartments were now caves of darkness and despair, only the memories of this tragedy lived there now. There was no longer an ocean but instead a moat surrounding the island, wide and deep, holding back what dangers insist to reach this side. The docks of stone connected both sides, but were heavily barricaded with fences and walls. Deep into the outlaying city I could hear treacherous cries, painful to the ear. Over the cries I could hear a more distinctive sound, the people of the island, the civilians, and now the survivors. Some yelling and demanding what had happened to their peaceful getaway, other crying and screaming as they ran into their houses. I knew I had done something wrong, and I felt as though what i saw wasn't supposed to come to me that way.

**Avalanche** · 09-20-2011 07:38 PM

I assume you are trying to head back there now and undo what you did to that place?

**GemInEye** · 09-22-2011 08:30 PM

Very interesting dream, I loved the detail in it. One thing.. do you mind writing your next dream in paragraphs? its slightly hard to read in one big lump lol

Anyway, my interpretation would be, though quite obvious, to be more considerate and apprehensive of the world around you, instead of trying to interfere with it, like you said, in ignorance.
This might apply to your waking life.. or your dream life, your sub conscious (the girl) is trying to guide you, instead you try to guide yourself.
You hadnt stated if you were lucid or not, so i assume you werent. If true, it is probally directed at your waking life. (edit.. just re read the first part

my mistake.. you were lucid, although i still stick with my interpretation)

(In my own not-so-experienced opinion ^_^)

Nice dream non the less, would like to hear more

**Avalanche** · 09-22-2011 08:32 PM

OP was lucid for this dream.

**GemInEye** · 09-22-2011 08:34 PM

i know, by the time i read the whole thing i forgot if he was or not lol. i have bad memory :p

**Avalanche** · 09-22-2011 08:34 PM

Lol, but good recall? That's the main thing.

**GemInEye** · 09-22-2011 09:21 PM

Yes i know

**livinggonzo** · 09-23-2011 03:05 AM

Sorry it wasnt broken up, Im copying what I wrote down and in an effort to write as much as possible before i forgot I just had a lot of run-ons and no paragraphs.

Part 2 Of I was Dreaming

As my friend rethinks this situation, she quickly leads me away from the scene. We ran back down the stairs and to the beach. The warm tropical sand didnt seem to comfortable anymore, instead I could feel the cold hard grains of sand, each digging into my feet as though I was walking on glass. It seemed to me that in this real world the sun had not shown for years, dark clouds covered the sky and thunder crackled in the distance.

We made our way to a small stone building, not a home, but more like a shack. Inside I could see that it was used for storage, but there was a pallet made in the center of the floor, so someone was sleeping here. My friend told me that this was were she stayed and pulled a box of papers from under a table. She grabbed a newspaper and a box of crackers. I couldn't help thinking how disgustingly stale the crackers could be, seeing how the box no longer had a face, all sides crumbled and faded. The newspaper had a green tone ink and life coming from the pages (vegetation I think is what I meant). I could only make out the cover picture and headline, which read "Trans-dimensional Breakthrough May Have Link To Life In Space!". The picture showed a line of scientists standing in front of a machine that took up the entire background. It looked very unreal and unnatural with a cat-eye shaped gate in the middle, and each of the scientists were holding artifacts of some kind.

My friend explained to me that the scientist discovered a way to travel to another planet without traveling through space, a portal or door that could take them anywhere they imagined. They used it to find new life, and did, but made the mistake of not concealing it and quickly its infectious race covered the planet, leaving cities of millions to small fortified towns of hundreds. A race of small parasitic aliens that would leech to civilians and slowly deprive them of everything that made them human.

She explained to me that a cure had been made, but can only be used in early stages of infection, over time their bodies would change into a more grotesque alien form, by then there is no hope for life again. Occasionally the people here would find one thats still in the human form curiously wandering across the bridges, alone and often falling into their traps. They continually cured as many as possible, which leads to me and how I got here. She said the I was once one of them, and that after they cured me I lost all my memories from my past life. And still now Im having trouble remembering things because despite how many times my friend has given her name, I just cant remember. Everything so far has been very weird but I believe that it is all true. I guess now I should try and make a new life for myself and be happy Im here now, alive, and very much human.

**livinggonzo** · 09-23-2011 03:23 AM

An explanation of I guess what may have contributed to these settings. Video games I played, like Halo and Doom. The matrix. Perhaps that I was sleeping in my brothers room, while he was in mine playing video games. But looking back on it and thinking of everything that has happened since then, it seems very ominous, almost philosophical and prognostic. I have bad long term memory. After a couple days I have no idea what happened and never keep track of days, missed my moms birthday too many times. Seeing as how it was my first lucid, I believe that Gemineye may be right about something, It started off beautiful, and I should have embraced it, but I started to challenge it, and then I suppose the girl came along to help me, but I fought that too and changed everything and eventually started writing my own dream based probably on what was in my head.
It may even be an infamous epiphony that I know I had but dont remember, when I was younger I found a lot of things depressing and was never in a good mood, then one day I just woke up and things were different, maybe this was that time. I dont remember though