#oneaday Day 575: Subconscious

Had a very strange experience this morning while attempting to wake up: I actually, legitimately felt "trapped" in a dream. I've had vivid dreams before, but this felt like something a bit different: it felt like I "had" to achieve something before I would be "allowed" to wake up.

My memories of the dream are somewhat disjointed, as memories of dreams tend to be. But I recall fleeing from… something through some alleyways in a modern-day city, then at some point the perspective changed to the final battle between a group of adventurers and what was presumably the villain of the piece.

The villain defeated the adventurers with ease, but they did not slump to the floor, dead; instead, they simply froze in place, unable to do anything. It was at this point I realised that I was looking at a diorama of sorts; the adventurers and the villain alike were miniatures in some sort of elaborate small "stage", and I was outside of the situation, looking in.

For a while, I didn't know what to do. Nothing seemed like it would resolve this situation. It appeared like I would be trapped forever; I knew I was dreaming, and I knew that I should wake up, but I couldn't.

But then something happened: the "wizard" figurine of the party was holding a staff of sorts, with a kind of "fan" arrangement atop it, and within the middle of that fan was an orb. That orb started glowing and flashing, and after a moment I instinctively knew what I needed to do was to reach out, hold that orb between my thumb and forefinger and squeeze.

I felt a "click", like I was pressing a button beneath some sort of malleable surface, so I held it down. Light intensified around me, and I knew that everything was going to be all right. I don't know exactly what happened next and how the situation was resolved, because that's the point I woke up.

You never get any decent "closure", do you? Still, I feel oddly happy to have successfully made it out of that particular trial my subconscious apparently set for me!