5.1.06

This night composed of two dreams of which order I do not recall.

1. This dream took place in two areas the first I am unsure of. One area consisted of an island ruins in a forest that I was exploring with some friends and my brother (upon entering the ruins it was in a forest, when leaving I was on an island of ruins but still in relatively the same geographic area). They were worn down marble ruins in the midst of a desert. There were columns and as I walked inside it was covered overhead, there was rubble and vines all over the place. There were stairs leading down to a bare wall, the staircase was very thin, only allowing one person to go down or a series of people single file, but it led to a dead end so there was no use going down. While exploring Peter (the guy from my History of the New Testament class over the summer) came up from the stairwell and greeted us, I seemed to know that he had been with us and asked him where he had gone. He said that there was a secret entrance he had found and had been exploring the ruins for some time and that there were various puzzles and riddles leading him around. So my brother and I took it upon ourselves to go exploring, when lead down the stairwell I saw a square recession of what I think was a face, Peter had us press it and the secret door opened up. I don’t remember going in the next phase of the dream shifted to a space that was composed of a ton of thin retractable doors that lined up right next to each other that created a solid space. Each of these thin pieces of wood had writing and symbols on them, each of varying colors. Reaching my arm out I would push and hold and the doors would slide open, parting from the middle into two halves, the left half opening left and the right half opening right (when I say “open” I mean that they slid to the left/right) to reveal another “door”. I kept my arm outstretched moving quickly, I remember panicking, as my brother was behind me and the doors were shutting behind us, so it seemed that they would kill us if we did not move quickly. My arm outstretched I kept force on the wall in front of me, dozens of doors opened and then closed behind my brother and we panicked to get out of here. I would keep force on the wall in front of me until they would no longer slide open, then I would read the door in front of me which would lead us to one of the four walls surrounding us. The door in front of my face had an inscription on it and I was trying to solve whatever riddle was on it, quickly as the doors were pressing on behind us. I made a decision (I don’t think I made the right one) to take a left, it had some cat or fish on the door I put force on and ran through keeping my hand outstretched. We finally made it to an opening to the outside and I stepped aside quickly to let my brother through. There was a surround porch of thick grey stone which surrounded this structure, and beyond that there was a pond of water, which this structure was in the middle of. From the stone deck to the edge of land was around 50 feet or more. Within the water, in the middle of the land and the edge of this “porch” ledge of stone were squares that were made up of squares that floated. There was one right in front of us in the water and another to my left off in the distance. The structure I was standing on was much like the Japanese structures that have the layered rooftops that are like ziggurats shooting up to the sky, but I was on the lowest level. My brother didn’t wait; he jumped into the pond and swam back to dry land. We were still in the forest, but the scene had changed, far to the left there was a hill, which lead up to the ruins, which we had left before. The pond was within the forest, in front of me there were trees but the hill was a clearing back up to where everyone else was. It was very beautiful…so green, just like a place I would want to live. But I was relieved to be out of that damnable maze…I never was good as riddles/puzzles I reminded myself as I laughed, and the dream ended.

2. One area this dream is contained in and that is some mall. I’m with my mother and brother and perhaps other people but I’m not able to tell or unaware. I have a t-shirt on with my navy blue Haynes boxer-brief underwear, it seems we are going store to store during closing time at the mall looking for swimming trunks. Every place is out of them it looks like, we go into some store that is open on the ground level near the entrance after what I feel like I’ve been walking around for some time. We had just asked a kiosk but they were closing up for the night and were not making any sales, so we walked over to this general clothing store. We ask if there are any swim trunks after looking around for a while I believe, and the sales clerk at the register points us in the direction of some boxes of clothes over on the other side of the wall. There are racks of clothes with people looking around, seemingly unaware that I’m in a t-shirt and underwear, I’m not sure what my brother and mother are wearing but I’m sure its not the same outfit that I’m in. We walk over to where the girl pointed us to go, and there are these thick plastic translucent things, which at first resemble shorts. I think to myself how odd it is that you can partially see through them since you could probably see your dick and such, since you don’t usually wear underwear under your swim trunks. But then I notice that these aren’t shorts they’re some kind of water-shoe thing that folds up and resembles a pair of shorts. I think to myself “wtf” how do a pair of shoes resemble a pair of shorts, but whatever it didn’t make much sense to begin with. So then we go back to the counter and ask the girl where the swim trunks are cause she obviously is a dumb bitch, but she tells us they are out of them and so for whatever reason the dream ends and I wake up in a semi-state of panic. It was a nightmare dream, why I don’t know, but I wasn’t able to fall back asleep for a while, even though I was laughing at such a silly excuse for a nightmare.