Daily Dreaming

I had a good, deep sleep last night and upon waking up, the events of my dreams were hazy and vague. Just a couple of things stand out enough for me to be able to describe clearly.

To begin with was a scene that I seemed to be viewing from afar, atop a cliff overlooking a wide expanse of jungle. The scene was a tropical hue of lush greens, warm yellows and tanned browns, with large trees intertwining into one another to create a carpet of leaves above the jungle floor. More strikingly, rising above the trees to the left of my viewpoint was a great stone tower. This dark sandstone structure was smooth and round, with small window slits evenly situated around the perimeter and at regular intervals climbing up the side. It was far taller than anything else I could see, and in appearance resembled the famous picture of Babel climbing into the heavens.

Remaining only a witness to events, I was suddenly at the base of the tower and could see a young man entering the tower. As he began his ascent, at the top of the tower his sister was trapped; by what or who, I couldn’t make out. There was clearly some malevolent intent at play. As the brother made his way through rooms, he was forced to tackle traps intended to halt his advance. Then a third figure was climbing some floors below the brother, with intent to stop him from achieving his goal.

I was switching between viewpoints as if the viewer of an adventure movie, but soon after the third person appeared the details become unclear. I can’t remember any more of what happened to the adventurer or his sister.

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After this, the only other small extract I can recall from last night was that at some point I was in the hold of an old sailing vessel with my cousins, sitting and discussing progress in a game. We seemed to be experiencing whatever it was we were playing in virtual reality, although my cousins and the location looked as real as could be. At one point I opened up a holographic inventory in front of me to boast about the drops from the previous quest that I had received, and we were comparing items ready for the next area once the boat arrived.

Later after we had arrived in the next town, I vaguely recall exploring a museum with a number of ornate statues depicting various weird looking creatures. There was a golden statue of a horned creature, somewhere between lizard and rhino, but this is the only one I can still remember. Then my memories fade again, and with that last night’s dreams were over.

A shame, as both of these seemed like pretty exciting stories and it would have been interesting to see where they led next.