Vivid Dream | Shed in the pond

I found a strange ride at a strange run-down place behind a fancy academy. It looked like a shed with one door over a pond. And inside the floor was removed and a cheap fabric device in the shape of a sphere was floating with a gap facing up for anyone to climb in. I went in first, causing the gap to close and flip down. I thought it was going to flood from the tiny slit left slightly opened, but it didn’t. Instead, it sunk and floated about in the pond until it reached an underwater facility. It attached the slit to the entrance and spat me out.

The place looked indescribable. I guess the closest I can try to define it is some type of crafting lab facility. Where anything and everything can be made. Fluff followed after in the same spherical device. We had a blast building strange wooden creations. And it gave me the idea to show this place to my father.

I left the way I came in, and let my dad stop by to give the strange place a look. But he struggled to get into the device as he is much taller than fluff andme. Even falling into the pond water inside the shed. He gave up trying and said that he is not gonna play my games. I showed him how I went about going in, but he stopped me and told me to just not try. I still went back anyway to let fluff know that my father won’t be joining us. In response, fluff showed off her latest creation. A horse made of cylinder wood.

The dream warps to when we finished cleaning up, and one by one we each left the facility. But as I got in, the slit opens up mid-ride back, stopping the device completely. The water did not flood in, but I was able to see the bottom of the pond. Old toys and fishing lines along the sandy floors from what was possibly a combination of people fishing in the pond and the facility littering creations into the water.

With a voice of an informer coming from the device. “Welcome to the fjdhfbsjfebf lake extraordinaire. Here we pride ourselves on protecting the environment and keeping our waters clean.” As I see the litter covering the floors of the pond. It then takes me off the trail and only goes further into the pond, revealing a deeper section that divers would venture off to.

As it reached further in, the waters become dark. I was confused about where the contraption was taking me. Until I got my answers. There was another underground facility further in. Where there are tons of windows and drop-off points to the architect. It was pretty… strange.

When the device finally came to a stop and let me off. The interior looked interesting. The wall was a soft yellow and the carpet was a navy blue-green. It was like a doctor’s office building with potted plants randomly around the hallways with school lockers placed here and there.

With the windows showing a whole different location from where I originally was. Out on some grass clearing by some wooded areas on a cloudy afternoon.

When I got deeper and deeper into the building, I find myself in a bizarre location.

I went to some sort of giant MMO theme park. Where interacting with golden knuckles players unlock the golden knuckles’ skin. From place to place being different terrains and locations. With the center being a town hall-like slew of seats and a podium on a stage.

I went about each location to see what it has to offer. The theatrics area played short films made by animators of all ages and expertise. The jungle area had Mayan structures that left gaping arches facing the center section of the region.

The pirate section Fluff would have killed to see and take over in a heartbeat. XD

My personal favorite was their tundra wonderland. A flash frozen beauty that surprisingly was the perfect temperature for me. 40f-50f. That was where I interacted with people with the golden knuckles skin.

As it unlocked, I unlocked the special chests with rewards in it. All I had to do was go to the makeshift warehouse/community center to open them.

In the chests had currencies, cool outfits, and even recipes for food that look delicious, but cannot be created irl. But one chest in particular hit me like a train. When I opened it, I saw my baby boy Lifestyle happily asleep. I picked him up and held him close, waking him up and brushing his face against mine as he purred.

I thought he came back to me for real in my dream, but typing now, he’s been gone for months.

I brought him along with me into a gathering of familiar faces. Some from my old highschool, some from my old middle school, and some I knew growing up around the block when I was a kid. Conversing among eachother as some went to the buffet to grab a few things. One I bumped into was one of my old middle school teachers.

She first was surprised I attended the reunion. Then went on to bring up my history with her. About the time my school buddies and I wrote a review with my answer calling her psychotic because I didn’t understand what the word meant. I told her that I was a dumb kid back then and she dropped the subject with annoyance.

Then she took my hand and guided me to a very steep slope that lead to the center of the park. She let go and sat down to slide on it, while I gripped the wall to reach a customer service desk area halfway down the slope, the floor in front of it had strange bubbles warped to it. When I stomped down on them, they burst into spherical plastic containers that had chrome slimes in them. I took two and mixed them together. Meanwhile my old teacher is yelling to come down, so I did with reluctance as I played with chrome slime.

The town hall area is filled with different players, domes with skins that resemble actors and western cartoon characters. All chattering and heckling as the man on the podium tried to explain about the fall of American democracy.

Finding myself a seat was like trying to find a needle in a warping hay stack. Especially when it grew hard to focus from all the bickering. Then a familiar face grabbed my arm and yanked to grab my attention. He tried to talk to me, but his voice was drowned out by the growing jeers from the audience. I yelled at him from the top of my lungs and kicked him in the shin to make him let go. Breaking his ankle in a loud piercing crunch

This diverted the crowd’s attention to us, as the world warped and faded to black. This blood-boiling moment was what woke me up.