I went to bed one night and soon found myself in a line of passengers waiting to board a train.
I had been experimenting with dream control at the time, after realizing that we spend a third of our lives unconscious, and I’d had some success, but it was an on-going learning process. For example, the hardest part was finding a way to realize that I was dreaming; in time, I found that if I felt like I had to urinate, but there were no bathrooms around, it was a dream. Also, once I did realize I was dreaming, I had a tendency to immediately wake up, which I learned to overcome by focusing on the dream’s surroundings. I was having flying dreams and such, but this one took it to a new level.
There were four or five young boys in the line ahead of me, and I asked them if they’d like to see some magic. They looked at me like I was some kind of crack-pot, of course, and I found myself saying, “Watch this!” and then I woke myself up. Strange, indeed.
I know that dreams don’t extend beyond the confines of our own minds, but there’s a little part of me that wonders if there are some boys somewhere, in some other realm, standing around scratching their heads after witnessing an old man vanish before their eyes.
michaeljordahl 
Love this, Michael. I think that dream was a reflection of how light-hearted you were at the time, even if only in the dream. Your story is one I will likely remember over the years at random and unpredictable times; and I’m sure it will always tickle my funny bone all over again.
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Thank you! I think about it now and then and have a little chuckle; this is the first time I shared it with anyone.
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👌👌👌✒👏👏👏 I like flying dreams. I can’t get enough of them … that first step into empty space with a touch and then I just swim
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Me too; it’s a lot like swimming!
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Very interesting dream. I do see such dreams where I have to exert some power or something and the dream abruptly ends then and there. Another interesting thing that confuse me and I can’t find the answer is that my dreams are another parallel world of places and people unlike my real world and I do visit them again and again in my dreams. May have roots somewhere. 🙂
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I often have dreams of a big city that I seem to be familiar with while dreaming, but not in reality. And that extends to other people and places, as well. There is as much going on inside our minds as there is outside of it. Dreams are so intriguing!
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Yes, I can relate.
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This is awesome!
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Thank you so much!!
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Wow!! Wonderful
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Thank you, Tut!!
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This is surreal. Has to be one of the best pieces of prose I have read here. Thanks for sharing.
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