Distorted Chambers In The Realm Of Dreams - Chapter 24

Light Within Darkness

The roads were cast in a shadow of evening. Dusk, but a soft indigo color still under the faint light of sunset. I was looking out the passenger's window while riding along in a car. I noticed nobody was driving the car. I wanted the car to stop. It did so. I got out. I didn't feel spooked by it but I wanted to get away from that strange occurrence.

The sky was like a blanket of a calm golden brownish hue. I slowed down in front of a house I had seen in dreams before, maybe two other times, but in each one the house had taken on a different appearance or size, or was placed somewhere else but close enough to a familiar haunt. In this one, a cul-de-sac of houses stood. Maybe it was just three houses, but the middle one had a very dark layer of wooded area on its sides and strange large bricks holding up the structure.

From the outside the house seemed empty, not anything more than that. Suddenly there was an air of blackness. I walked and peeked inside the middle house, and standing next to it, it seemed a lone structure and the nearby homes now seemed far away. There was no floor in one room, it had caved in down to a basement that was now littered with fallen beams and pieces of the inside walls. It looked charred and I left and closed the door behind me. It seemed that I had left a familiar house, one that belonged to a relative or someone I knew. I never saw anyone there. I wanted to leave in a hurry because it was dark and unnerving and nobody was there.

I continued traveling the oddly quiet roads. Green lawns and bright sidewalks stretched out under the twilight overhead and it all seemed abandoned as if everyone were asleep at the same time. One road seemed to be a dead end, but upon the further trek, it never ended. I turned around.

I was riding a bicycle now, the wind in my hair and my feet resting on the frame as I let the bike take me down the suburban streets in a quiet rhythm of the wheels gliding against the pavement. I felt a hot, humid atmosphere raging from above. I turned from a west point to an east point and found that I was going back to that street again with that house. I looked away. I went on and soon it looked as if the land began to expand to a vast, barren scenery that far off into the distance turned into hills of dust and smooth mountain foothills.

But closer, and suspended a few inches from the dead ground, there were scattered over the landscape, glowing orbs of white light within thin, transparent bubble-like globes that bounced and floated in the air. Pearl white light emitted from them with an otherworldly glow. They seemed to dance over the ground. I thought it was beautiful. There were dozens of these orbs and I guessed there were hundreds further on that I couldn't see.

I rode by them, then looked back around, and thought I could barely make out the local town people here and there. I saw a few shadows pass by. The faces and shapes of people were not to be seen, but rather a picture that had been painted black and gray. They were moving and going on their way but if they got more than five feet from me, I could not see them anymore. They'd dissolve in a faded effect within my range of view. As if they were never there. The darkness seemed heavier when I could not see the orbs. Like little lamp lights, they were.

I looked back again at the glowing orbs and they were further away. I went towards them but not chasing them as I had no clue as to what they were and how they might respond to other entities. When I approached them, and came close to them, they stayed near me. When I looked around at the roads that I traveled, it was as if the orbs were unseen from that distance.

I reached up to touch the glass-like surface and found I was back in the car with the window rolled up. The headlights provided light that I could see the roads in this strange world now. Everything throughout the dream had been set in dusk, in the twilight of some end to some fateful day.

I could see all around me, but it wasn't like the day, it was a glowing night. In the shadows I could see more sharply than if the sun had been out in the usual choking, hazy layers. The night was clear and clean under the uncertain sky. I focused far off to what seemed a south point - and saw a fading sunset.

Before waking up from this vision, I found that I was within one of the glowing orbs after reaching out to them. I was seeing the reflections of the outside of the orb and that I was never in a car at all.