Here’s one of mine from almost THREE years ago. This was before I started my DJ topic on LD4all. I still remember this dream pretty clearly, despite it being so old. When I read it just now it all came back to me as if I’d dreamt it just last night. This is one of my favorite normal dreams. I’ve never had one like it before or since.
Sunday 04 November 2007
#1 – Train Station in the Lost World
One of the weirdest dreams I’ve ever had, this one. The world in this dream is a lot like the real world, but a war torn one. Everything is being watched by the bigwigs and the whole world has gone to hell. People are trying to make the best of things, and the ones higher up are taking advantage of the dire situation of the common people. That’s the premise.
The two people starring in this dream are my mother and I. And the dream itself mostly takes place at the train station in Amersfoort (but nothing like the real one, obviously). It’s many times bigger and has many levels. It appears as though I had only recently been “found” or “rescued” or something, as my mother took everything that happened for granted. I was being shown around the train station, which would be my home for the rest of my live. The manager of the place and one other person were showing me around, telling me that it was against the law to leave this place (or something like that at least, they didn’t give me the impression that I could come and go as I pleased). I saw many people who had lost their old lives and were just sort of surviving, like homeless people.
There were several “ground floors”, separated by escalators (a bit weird to imagine, I guess). One floor below the main ground floor was a place deserted by mankind and completely savage and prehistoric. Literally so, because there were dinosaurs roaming the place. Imagine a train platform with train tracks on both sides (but with the tracks in trenches a few meters deep). In those trenches were Tyrannosaurus Rex and other dinosaurs. They couldn’t (for some reason) climb up the platform, so as long as we stayed close to the middle we were safe. I asked myself why they didn’t just follow the tracks to the outside world. They appeared to be miserable as well.
A little up ahead the area was flooded. My mom and I were given appropriate diving equipment and received an underwater tour. It was very murky and large carnivorous marine animals were all over the place (like sharks). They didn’t attack us until after the tour, but the two people guiding us (the manager was no longer among us) managed to fend off the attack and got us to out of the water again. There were also ruined trains all over the place, with huge jaw prints on them.
The place was more like a prison. People weren’t happy. They’d have given everything to leave that place, but we were all explicitly told that we were not allowed to leave and that escaping would be punishable by death.
Later I went inside some sort of large building, alone. It looked a bit like a shopping mall with way too much room. There were restaurants there (mostly deserted) and the whole area looked to be in extreme poverty. I walked till the end of that place and came to a large door. On the other side there was a door leading to a room (a shower or a bathroom or something) and a staircase leading down to a supermarket (Dirk to be exact). Then my mother was suddenly there again and I told her that a supermarket down below wasn’t very convenient. My mother had secretly managed to do some shopping at another place, like the outside world or something. We were a bit better off than most of the other people, at least. But whatever she did was illegal.
Then something odd happened. An announcement was made. An international train would be leaving for Germany from the main platform. I think that only certain people were allowed to board the train, but it was odd because everyone was on the platform, thousands of people. My mother and I looked in the direction the train would be coming from and a train passed us by and stopped further up ahead. I saw another train coming and stopping on the same platform and I thought it was part of the international train to Germany, but this train was headed someplace else.
My mother and I made our way through the crowds, trying to get to the rear of the train (in order to board it) before it would leave again. Many people were headed in that direction and our luggage was slowing us down. I believe my mother grabbed all of our stuff when the announcement was made (we lived inside the mall complex I think). On the way we even passed the manager who stood there with other people (government officials). I think they were armed. He didn’t recognize me specifically and my mother and I made it past him.
After running for a while we managed to get to the rear of the train. I saw a few signs with names on them of places in Germany (though they actually looked Polish). I managed to squeeze myself in and my mother came in right after me. The doors closed immediately behind her. Then the compartment we were in turned 90 degrees so as to be placed on the track properly (but it already was before we got in… Whatever). For most people, this train was their only hope of seeing the outside world again. It seemed as though Amersfoort (or the Netherlands) was the only place that was corrupted OR that Germany was the only place that WASN’T corrupted.
In any case we had made it. A piece of our luggage was stuck outside the doors, though and I feared that the officials would be able to track down me and my mother because of it. With some effort I managed to get it inside before we passed the manager and the other officials. We had found a seat and I made sure we didn’t face the platform. On the train were people who were supposed to be there as well as people who weren’t supposed to be there, but no one seemed to mind. I worried for a while, but my mother pointed out the window and it was clear that we had already left the station far behind us. The view was pretty spectacular (just a really beautiful and uncorrupted landscape, as if I’d never seen it before).