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Years ago, I found myself in a strange place. It was a hardscrabble desert with reddish brown mountains in the distance. Train tracks crisscrossed the plain, leading off into infinity. I wasn't supposed to be there; I slipped in behind another Dreamer who had a chantkey to the place. An olive skinned woman in colorful Gypsy garb appeared shortly after I arrived and snarled at me to "leave the plain!" I didn't - I just stood around gawking - and she appeared again and tossed me out on my ear.
There is a city where it's always night and the streets are always wet, as if it has just rained. There's a boardwalk by a body of water (or so I'm told; I've never seen it), there's a neighborhood where everyone wears a mask, and there used to be a huge building that had a vast marketplace and many, many living spaces inside. The building was bigger inside than out and the interior sported many doorways to other planes. I had an apartment there until the whole building just collapsed into rubble one day, whether due to age or the machinations of the demons that lived in the dark places within, I don't know.
I've found, through talking to other travellers of the Dream, that these seem to be stable places that a lot of Dreamers know about. Anyone know more about them, or know of other places?
There is a city where it's always night and the streets are always wet, as if it has just rained. There's a boardwalk by a body of water (or so I'm told; I've never seen it), there's a neighborhood where everyone wears a mask, and there used to be a huge building that had a vast marketplace and many, many living spaces inside. The building was bigger inside than out and the interior sported many doorways to other planes. I had an apartment there until the whole building just collapsed into rubble one day, whether due to age or the machinations of the demons that lived in the dark places within, I don't know.
I've found, through talking to other travellers of the Dream, that these seem to be stable places that a lot of Dreamers know about. Anyone know more about them, or know of other places?
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Same city, different paths
Tue, August 17, 2004 - 7:15 AMI haven't been to the city in a while, but I've most frequently been to the open air market and carnival before you get to the boardwalk by the water. If you head left down the boardwalk you'll find the Star Theatre near the hotels. This is somehow also close to the warehouse district. (Haunts live there.)
I have a friend who has spent a lot of time in the hotel(s) searching for her lost purse. She says there are ruins out under the water.
If you head right and leave the boardwalk there's old town where the old brick buildings sometimes lie in crazy patterns and sometimes the streets march straight. It is always night, even if it's day and does look as if it's always just rained there. If you go inside these buildings, the apartments are crazy, set up in impossible ways because tenants have built and rebuilt the walls too many times.
There's also a gleaming new downtown in the distance and you can get to the city by the airport. I've spent a lot of time in the airport. I've also travelled the trecherous road to get to the city, but have never made it there by road. There are always bridges out or the road construction hasn't been finished.
The city is lonely. There are very few people there - far, far less than there should be for a city that size. -
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Re: Same city, different paths
Wed, August 18, 2004 - 11:23 AMHi kiddo, glad to see you made it here. The old town is where I spend all my time. I can't seem to find the boardwalk. Look me up there sometime...I'm currently shacked up in an old tenement house. It's the one with the front door on the third floor. ;)
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Re: Same city, different paths
Thu, August 19, 2004 - 4:31 AMI'll see if I can find your apartment. Is that near the tenement shaped like a wedge whose third floor is only about 5 feet tall? ;)
I used to live in the green house down near the market, but in one of the last dreams I had about the city I told someone that I lived in the new downtown now. I wonder if that's some kind of metaphor.
I've been trying to get to the city by thinking about it before sleep the last few nights. No such luck yet. -
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Re: Same city, different paths
Wed, February 11, 2009 - 4:34 AMThis city stirs memories.
I often end up in a large city with wet streets nearly empty save a lost soul wandering here or there. I meet another dreamer never clear but infinitely lovely and we stroll through a parking garage always downward sliding along the wet pavement dodging the cars and having these complex long forgotten but oh so memorable conversations. I awaken with a deep feeling of nostalgia, a heartfelt longing to return to that lovely and magical city that lies just the other side of bedtime...
I always thought that place was in my own personal mindspace and that longing was for the other dreamer, You've given me much to contemplate, thanks! -
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Re: Same city, different paths
Thu, March 5, 2009 - 10:39 AMI don't know how stable such a place might objectively be, but I have a had a couple dreams now where I've been 'pulled' (it feels like) away. I fly off to another place and 'land', get to walk around and interact with the people there. The experience is more vivid than a usual dream. I see people who have died mixed with people who are still alive. Later I leave by similar means, I fly away and then begin to fall and 'crash' back to my origin point. Usually fun when it happens. Subjective or objective, that's my question...
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