I was somewhere on a sunny campsite with a small beach and a park. The place was pretty crowded, to say the least. And it was rather difficult for me to walk between all the towels that lay on the ground. Wondering how I came here, I walked around the site while looking for a place to take shelter in the shade.

It seems that even in my dreams I’m taking precautions from the burning effects of the sun. I always liked the sun very much, but my body always disagreed on that.

After a few minutes I found a nice tree for shelter, and I decided to take a sit in the grass under the tree. Then an old lady approached from behind of me. We had a bit of small talk about the weather and such. I continuously felt she had something important to tell me, but from our short conversation nothing significant came up.

At the moment I tried to end the conversation and walk away, the lady said that I needed to come with her and that she needed to show me something important. Her facial expression was very serious, and because of my previous presumptions I decided to follow her to wherever she wanted to go. About a hundred meters further we stopped in front of a small cabin with a large “keep out!” sign slapped onto the sturdy looking door.

Just by standing there I already had a feeling of what was coming from thereon.

The old lady carefully repelled the few other people that were in the neighborhood of the cabin. From my guts I could tell that the bystanders were not very friendly souls and were waiting anxiously to have a quick look at what was going on inside. After the other people were gone, the old lady grabbed into her pocket and showed me a key. She opened the lock of the cabin and told me I needed to take a look inside.

I cautiously went inside and closed the door behind me.

In the short time that I was inside, I saw parts from the life of a woman I know. Short clips were being displayed on the walls. Like a movie in the cinema. I felt I didn’t need to watch the whole thing, but I was genuinely wrong, because I was kept inside until I watched it all. Afterwards the door magically opened by itself and I could step outside.

Upon exiting the cabin the old lady spoke to me again. “Do you understand?”, she asked me with a serious voice. I felt completely overwhelmed by the whole situation and didn’t immediately gave her an answer. “Here, take the key”, she said. “I want you to guard it from here on”. I gently took the key from the lady’s hand. Then she told me that someone I knew was waiting for me in the park behind the campsite. Obviously I already had a serious presumption of who it was.

“Of course it’s her”, the lady said. “Now go, you don’t have much time!”. I generously thanked the old lady and quickly continued my way to the park.

From a little distance I could already confirm my presumption of who was waiting there for me.

The woman and I friendly greeted each other, but before I could put any more words in she quickly told me a summary of all the things I saw in the cabin and the whole situation as it was at that time. After telling me all this, she started crying.

I put my hand on her shoulder and tried to calm her with words. But it seemed that she didn’t want me to. My hand was swept from her shoulder, and she slowly started walking towards the exit of the park. I tried to stop her, but the more I tried, the faster she walked. When we approached the exit she suddenly stopped… “Do you have the key?”, she asked. I admitted to her that I had the key. “Please, take good care of it for me”, she added. I promised her I would. Because taking good care is what I always do.

Through her tears I saw a little smile.

After a quick “thank you” she swiftly exited the park through a small gate, and followed her path down a long busy street. I decided to follow her, to see if everything would be OK. As soon as I exited the park, the weather changed abruptly into a dark and rainy spectacle. It seemed like time had accelerated very rapidly, because even though I almost immediately followed her, she was now already a hundred meters away. I tried to keep up with her, but the weather was keeping me almost in the exact same place. In the distance I saw her turn around and wave thankfully to me. Then she vanished and blended into the environment.

I anxiously grabbed into my pocket and felt the key. While tightening my hand around it I quickly pulled it from my pocket. Slowly I opened my hand… It was sparkling, just like the rest of all my keys.

While I’m standing in the line, I look at the lady behind the counter. “Oh, it’s you”, she says. “Are your friends here too?”.

I smile to her. “Yes, they are with me today”.

At the counter stands a large cane basket filled with colorful pills. The lady asks me if I need any. I shake my head. “Maybe they need some”. She looks to my friends and says they can pick whatever they like. Without a second thought they gratefully pick their favorite colors. The lady then offers them some water to wash down the pills.

“Mmm, they’re really good!”, says one of my friends. I laugh and say that the best is yet to come. “That’s true”, says the woman behind the counter. “By the way, it’s nice seeing you again!”, she says to me. “Maybe we’ll see each other in a bit”, she adds. I smile to her and give her a wink.

We continue through the main gates into the direction of a large grassland that is filled with lots of artful displays and various festivities.

“Well, this is it, have fun!”, I tell my friends. We then each take our own ways and I decide to go take a look at the art displays that are scattered throughout the field. The displays are mainly filled with beautiful landscapes and realistic paintings of ordinary people. Each one is a masterpiece in my eyes. Yet there are so many. While I’m walking alongside the displays I bump into a friend of mine. “Wow, these are the best of the best!”, he says. In the background I can hear a kind of ambient electronic music. It’s nothing I’ve ever heard before, yet it immediately sparks some happy thoughts. I feel very euphoric and decide to follow the trail of the music to its source.

In the middle of the field stands a giant cube that is covered by a white curtain. I choose to take a sit in the grass near the cube, and listen to the mesmerizing music. As the music continues to play, my body starts to feel lighter and lighter, until I almost feel like floating above the ground. As some people start to gather around the cube, the music becomes more vibrant and starts to build more and more expression. The curtain that is hanging around the cube then starts to wave, and I know there is something amazing about to happen.

The music then quickly fades away and the curtain floats high into the air.

Just as fast as the music was gone, it’s now back and more euphoric than ever before. Then the cube slowly starts to float a few meters above the ground. It’s glowing in all colors of the rainbow. People are dancing and the environment starts to come alive. The grass starts shifting its greenly shades and the entire environment blends into an orgy of colors. The high trees that surround the area start to wave on the beat of the music, and the grass slowly blends with the colors from the cube. I feel like I’m becoming one with the environment. True ecstasy!

Slowly I close my eyes and lay on my back in the grass. And for a few minutes I lay there. Being one with all.

Then I feel someone is leaning over me from behind. A female voice whispers in my ear…

“Beautiful, isn’t it?”

I open my eyes and see the woman from the counter. She asks if she can lay beside me for a while. How could I say no? We hold hands and share some experiences of our lives. Then she moves against me and shifts one leg over my body. “You have to wake up, my dear”, she whispers in my ear.

And all just fades to black.

The lucidity started when I was driving a car through some unknown streets. By the time of this dream I didn’t even have a drivers license, so I guess that this was the reason that I became lucid very easily. It was a very strange experience to know so well how to drive a car, and at the same time knowing that I never took a single lesson in “real” life.

In the dream I was driving around a place full of little flats. I still remember that the area was very dense and that it was around the time of night. The reason for me driving around at this place was not very clear in the beginning, but it soon started to clear up once I got a phone call on my cell phone from an unknown person. “Why have you not arrived yet, you have to see this!”, a man yelled anxiously to me on the phone. But before I could ask him a question, he had already hung up.

Suddenly my head was filled with all kinds of memories about a strange project which involved digging at a site in the middle of a city. And within seconds after, I remembered the whole picture. For some time now we were digging for a strange object that we discovered in books about ancient history. I felt like I was some kind of professor that was on a mission to uncover something really big. It was my lifework to uncover this, and now it finally happened.

Within a few minutes I arrived at the digging site, which was swarmed with people in mineworkers outfits. “We have been expecting you”, one of the workers said as he let me pass through the gates. At a nearby road I parked my car and I was immediately welcomed by a bunch of people that were very happy about what they have seen. I said to them that I was very excited too, but that I needed a moment for myself and would meet up with them in a few minutes. One of them asked me if he should take me to place of discovery. I nodded and together we walked to a large mining elevator. I didn’t felt quite comfortable with the situation at all, but still I decided to take the trip into the unknown depths. The man said to me that this would become a very important situation in my life.

“I can show you the way to the elevator, but you must make the trip yourself”.

“Are you ready?”, the man asked as he reached for the elevator button. “Yes”, I said. And off I went into liberation.

As the rattling elevator was finding its way to the bottom, a mystical blue light appeared from underneath and lighted the surroundings. Suddenly I felt no longer any fear of what I was about to discover. It were feelings of warmth and love that surrounded my entire body. And by the time I reached the bottom, I felt like I had became another man.

As I stepped out of the elevator I followed the mystical blue light through the corridors, to its source. What I eventually uncovered can only be described as absolute magic. I stood in a gigantic room that was shaped like the hollow inside of a planet. Inside of the room was floating an enormous blue planet-like object that was emitting a very bright light. It was glowing and pulsating very intensely. And on the surface it had lots of activity with lines crossing through each other. Each with their own source of light. Some of them in the color white.

Breathlessly I stood there, while gazing at this beautiful sight. It felt like I had just uncovered my personal soul. And it seems that I was actually right.

A man came stand beside me and spoke to me…

“This is no planet, this is you!”
“Imagine, and you can do!”

For a lot of people, at least a few hours of every day are spent in total darkness. They turn of the lights, go to bed, and wake up like nothing happened. Their dreams (if they manage to remember them) are made of meaningless fuzziness and chaos, and are quickly disposed into the mental rubbish bin.

We live in a society in which personal evolution has no place. And it’s too bad that most people don’t even care. Society nowadays is based around central figures and institutions which are upheld by the attention of others. Personal attention is obsolete and discarded as “egoistic”. And personal evolution is supposed to be something which is achieved via the products and services of others. The worst thing of it all, is that things which can’t be touched are not even real anymore.

This “crisis” came forth by the lack of consciousness.

However, at least for me, thoughts, images, sounds and emotions are the most real things in life. Not only in the “real” world, but even more so in the world of dreams. Because it’s the things that can’t be touched which ultimately shaped my life.

At night, I live a life of exhilaration, of missed heartbeats and adrenalin. I have traveled time, explored the vast possibilities of the multiverse, rescued innocent people from evil, had conversations with multidimensional beings, kissed the clouds, and even have a place which I can call my home. All thanks to the wondrous world of (lucid) dreams.

This weblog will feature my personal adventures. Let me tell you of my roots…