Dream of the Week: The Shelves (or Shocked it’s a Dream!)

I'm outside a shared backyard area with several homes leading out into the yard. I've left the back door to my house open and notice several other back doors open as well. I'm sitting on the ground, tending to something in the grass when I see a giant cardboard flying through the sky like a plane. A cat jumps out of it, landing in the trees nearby.

I'm super confused and wonder if this might very well be a dream. I'm pretty doubtful but do a reality check anyway. I look at my hand to see if my fingers look extra gangly or if they're moving like wavy noodles. Nope, my hands look normal. I like to follow-up a hand check by pulling on my finger to see if it stretches. In a dream, it elongates like silly putty. To my utter surprise, it stretches out in colorful bands. Even though I frequently become lucid, this time felt particularly surprising and so delightfully unbelievable. ⚡️

Lucid, I feel overwhelming joy and curiosity about where I am. There are apartments covered in vines all around me, so I decide to fly up to a vine. I think that if I launch myself up from here, I will boost to another place entirely. I rock to the left and count, 1...2...3… and launch myself back into the sky… and hit a giant wooden shelving unit. Not really my goal.

I decide to keep going forward and push through the back of the shelf. I break through the wall and encounter… another wooden wall. I push through the next wall and break into a large wooden room filled with shelves packed with books, toys, and stuffed animals.

There's so much to see here! I love this playful room and can't wait to see all the things. I climb through the wall and put my hand on the floor to "hold" the dream in place even though it's already stable, vivid, and clear. I look closer at a row of books to check out the titles for exciting clues. I remember how unstable words are in dreams, knowing that if I look at them, they'll be gibberish and scramble up. Words never stay put and are equally hard to remember, so I don't want to linger on words for very long.

The first book I see is light blue with the title, "Wilks Girl." I look away for a moment and wake up.

ProTip: No matter how much you think you might be awake, you might actually be dreaming! Test your reality several times so you can be absolutely certain.

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