Dreams

Last night I had a dream. I usually don't remember my dreams, but this one I recall vividly. It involved people in current time, teenagers I think, somehow traveling to the future, possibly to a parallel dimension. There, they are chased by bad guys. A good guy then stages their death in a parking garage and takes them to an underground safe house. There, a metal elevator door is surrounded by a crowd of people, waiting for it to arrive. When it does, they instead gather around, revealing that they were not random people, but also good guys. The teens are instructed to strip all their clothing and step into the elevator. I particularly remember one ranking good guy touching the inner wooden panel of the elevator, saying something I don't remember, but looking as if he had never touched a wooden wall previously in his life. As if it was a relic from a lost age.

The elevator is eventually activated, and the old metal doors close with a creaking sound. Through a small round window in the side of the elevator shaft the cage is seen descending. A mechanical noise is heard, and then everything goes quiet. The good guys look at each other as if they'd accomplished something great.

Back in the present, I just have this image of someone, possibly the teenagers, looking at a signal map of some kind. I remember that they looked at a point with a bunch of small arrows out of it, each with a number. They didn't know which one led anywhere. I however somehow knew that -11 led to the other world - probably something I learned at the beginning of the dream.

I woke up from this dream with an odd feeling. I can't really describe it, but it's a combination of joy, meaninglessness, sorrow, and mainly, respect. People in different times and places had once helped each other, but would never meet again. Gazing at the stars above, they could only remember the time they had shared. That was their memento.

It's strange how dreams can affect you. Walking to the subway, I somehow felt different, if only for a while. I knew the world was the same as yesterday. People looked the same. The car exhausts smelled the same. Yet it was different for a moment. There's so much more to the human mind than we think.

Have you experienced something like this? Please share your own dreams.