I frequently have dreams where I'm lost in a huge (I'm talkin' huge-a-mongous) building. They're really wierd, cuz it's like, I'll enter a room in the building, turn around to exit the room, and find that where I am is completely different than where I originally came from. It's like being lost in a maze that changes with each step I take... Really weird. One dream I remember in great detail...
I was, again, lost in this huge building. I was with a few friends of mine, whom I couldn't identifly, but that I knew were friends. We enter what appears to be the 'core' of the building, on the bottom level. We are looking for someone or something, which I also cannot identify. There is a huge courtyard, and looking up, I can see that the building must have hundreds of levels. (**If anyone on this message board is familiar with Paolo Soleri and his concept of 'arcology', this building in my dream reminds me of what being inside of an arcology must be like**) We begin moving through the building, and one-by-one, the friends I'm with begin to drop off - disappear, I guess.
Very soon, I am walking around by myself, and although there are many other people in the building going about their own business, I can't seem to communicate with any of them -- my greetings are met with blank stares and silence. Eventually, I make it to some sort of library and the only person there is this little girl sitting underneath a water fountain (it's one of those ones that sticks out of the wall). Her gaze is different from the blank stares I'm getting from everyone else... she seems to be the only person I've encountered so far with a spark of life in her. Then, I ask her the fatal question, the one that changes my dream into a nightmare:
"Why is everyone acting so weird?"
She responds, "because it's looking for you."
At that point I look behind me, and the sliding door I came in from opens... and I quickly turn to the little girl who, of course, now is gone. The water fountain is also gone -- in it's place is an opening to a long corridor. Without looking behind me at what's come through the door, I run through the opening -- that slow dream run that feels like I'm trying to run underwater -- and make my way down the corridor. To my left, there is a railing that overlooks the courtyard, now many hundreds of levels below. To my right is a long window that seems to span the entire length of the corridor, and looking through that window I realize that I'm staring at the blackness of space. There are many people in the corridor, and although they're all giving me the same death stares as everyone I met before the little girl in the library, nobody makes a move to restrain me or otherwise interact with me in any way.
On the opposite side of the courtyard, standing near the railing of a corridor probably 20 or so levels below, is a person... can't make out whether it's a guy or girl, but they're telling me to go to the bridge. The bridge turns out to be an opening in the railing with a platform jutting out 3 or 4 feet. Looking down, I realize that there are many other bridges on many other levels, and people are JUMPING ACROSS THEM!! Mind you, the chasm is probably a few hundred feet across, and the person who told me to go to the bridge is motioning for me to jump down to her (I can see now that it's the girl from the library, only now she's older -- about my age). Instead, in anger, I turn to face whatever is chasing me, but my curiosity is never to be fullfilled. At this point I have begun to suspect that I'm dreaming, and as I turn around to face my pursuer, everything gets hazy and I find myself in bed (my real bed) with my face jammed between the bed and my nightstand.
I thought about that dream for the rest of the day, and even wrote down every detail I could remember in my laptop -- I'm sure I still have the file somewhere.
Has anyone ever had a similar dream?