Strange Buildings in Park - 1975
this dream was very clear and coherent. I recorded it the same morning in detail, but for some reason neglected to provide an exact date.
I was leaving a familiar brightly lit area headed down a short flight of steps into a dimly lit concrete tunnel about 8 feet x 8 feet. I walked some distance until I saw a short flight of steps ahead with bright daylight shining down. I climbed the steps into a building of solid construction and in perfect condition, but known to me to have been abandoned for a very long time. I went out through a door knowing this to be the first time I had ever been outside, but I was prepared and knew what it would be like, so I was not surprised.
The area surrounding the building resembled a very well maintained park. There were two buildings, the one I had just left, and another similar to it a few hundred feet or so ahead of me. They were rectangular and made of brick and white stone. I had exited through a small door at one end, descended a short flight of stairs to the ground and started wandering toward the other building down a sidewalk leading to a paved road that ran between the two.
I saw people scattered around the park and compared their dress to my own. They were wearing loose fitting colored robes, while I was wearing trousers and a tunic similar to a military tunic but longer. I had a hat similar to a large padded beret on my head. All in all I had the feeling of being in a kind of military dress, but did not feel like a military person.
I was soon noticed by two persons, one larger than the other. They were dressed in light tan robes rather than the brighter colors of the others, and seemed very surprised to se me, although I knew they knew what I was. They started to follow me and displayed a hostile attitude. They wanted to do something to my head, but I do not remember quite what.
I walked clockwise around to the front of the building i had just come out the side of and proceeded up a wide walk to the steps leading up to the front entrance. This inset entrance was faced in bronze tinted glass with two glass doors in the center. All this glass was set in bronze fames and there were three stainless steel flagpoles set into a ledge over the doors.
The two persons continued following me while talking to each other, and I tried to ignore them. They knew the building was sealed and I knew they thought they had me cornered, but I walked up to the door and pushed it with my foot. It swung inward heavily and I walked through. It closed quickly behind me despite its apparent mass. I knew it was not really glass and would not permit my two followers to enter.
I started wandering about the lobby, which was paved and faced with polished stone. It was quite high, with a balustraded walkway going around it at second floor height. There was a curved information counter at the left rear corner. Others of the people in colored robes, seeing someone in the building, walked up to the doors out of curiosity. They started walking through the glass without opening the doors. I knew it would let them in because they were not hostile of thought toward me. I had broken the seal.
I told the people it was all right to wander around and look, and tried to explain where they were permitted to go, but finally just told them they would know where they were forbidden, and that they would know not to try to go underground.
Off the right side of the lobby was a wide entrance to a semicircular room, in the floor of which was a round stone well about 20 feet across and about 4 feet deep. This left only a narrow ledge of floor around the well. Strange creatures now started to ooze out of the stone floor of the well. I started to say a spell to force them back, but decided this was unnecessary and allowed them to join the crowd wandering about. I knew they were just people taking different forms at the time.
Short Lapse: Various of the strange creatures and robed people had gathered in a room on the second floor in the wing opposite the one with the well. They were sitting around talking and drinking some beverage out of glasses, making the gathering look rather like a costume party. I had acquired a white or light blue robe from somewhere and was dressed in it, attempting to demonstrate some kind of trick which required standing on a block of some soft material at odd angles in defiance of gravity. I shrunk it down to half size by a mental maneuver to make it harder. Apparently it was rather difficult and I had not quite mastered it as I was a bit unsteady.
End.
I had partially awakened momentarily a couple of times during this dream to check the time, returning to the dream without serious interruption, or at least I thought I had checked the time. It is very hard to sort waking reality from other sorts in the in-between states.