The Mushrooms and Winding Corridors

Last night I had two distinct dreams plus a slight aural hallucination upon waking up (experiencing hypnopompia).

## The Mushrooms

In this dream I was visting a foreign country, and all but one member of my class knew about it, since they'd lived there for a time. I was in an airplane and I remember it being rainy and stormy within the dream planeride. Then, we arrived at our destination and I was with the class in a one-story building that resembled an oversized trailer, with varying surroundings around us. On one side was a large desert with dunes while on the other was a lake and still in front of the building was a forest of tall conifer-esque that shrouded the path in a peculiar sort of darkness.

I remember chasing after the student who'd previously lived in this country before but the teacher said "no" as I ran after him, so I came back and went with the rest of the class on the field trip through this dense forest with the trail. As I walked, I caught sight of some truly massive mushrooms on the trail, such that there were about three of them - at least one of a deep red and at least a foot accross. I got out my camera to take pictures of them and worried a bit since the class was catching up and there was now a mysterious dial on my camera with rectilinear symbols that I had no comprehension of - so I struggled to find the right dial to adjust things to macro mode while the students behind me caught up.

It was at this point details of the dream are lost to me, and we move into the next one:

## Winding Corridors

Within this dream, I remember being in a nondescriped home that *somewhat* conveyed a Victorian aesthetic, but minus **all** the fancy furniture and filigree. It was a "Minimalistic Victorian" style, if that makes any sense, and so the walls and ceiling were white while the floor consisted of light to dark wooden planks with rugs interspersed on them. I remember my dream-self narrating the features of a beast that lurked within this place (presumably an infinite set of Victorian-esque rooms and hallways), that resembled a werewolf. The voice that was narrating was not really my voice however, but sounded identical to the one in this video.

As my dream-self was narrating, I turned to see a grotesque wolf-like creature in a room opposite to where I stood in one of the hallways. It appeared only for an instant, but quickly disappeared, like two rolls of film had somehow been mixed up and implicated a person within a movie they'd never been in for the duration of just a few frames, only to disappear just as quickly as they'd flashed into existence. I perceived I was near the entrance but I wandered further into the maze of white-walled hallways as I stood on the handrails that were in every hallway, attempting to gain higher ground should I encounter this beast.

Fortunately I did not encounter the wolf-like creature again, but I became aware of the monotony of the place in addition to how the hallways and rooms seemed to stretch on forever. There was no end, and I was just walking along the hallway handrails. Soon thereafter the dream ended.

## The Voice

As I was waking up (which today, consisted of a gradual rather than stark transition betwixt sleep and wakefulness), I heard a little girl's voice behind my back (I was sleeping on my left side), say "dad?" as if she were a daughter asking her dad something. At this point I was still so sleepy that I struggled to think what I might say to her, only to realize quickly I had imagined the entire thing. Still, I felt as if a person were *there*, but not in a creepy way, merely in a reassuring way.

## Notes

* The student who'd previously lived within the country within **The Mushroom** is someone I once went to school with.
* In addition, the red dream mushrooms within **The Mushrooms** were just giant versions of the same mushroom I've encountered in walks throughout the woods. Here it is exactly in fact:

* The hallways and rooms within **The Winding Corridors** were likely a spatial juxtaposition of various hallways and Victorian-style rooms I once visited within a local Inn.

**Dreamer** Vendellium

**Dreamed** Saturday 18 July 2020

**𝕍𝔼ℕ𝔻𝔼𝕃𝕃𝕀𝕌𝕄'𝕊 𝔻ℝ𝔼𝔸𝕄𝕊**

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**4.18:** Little Boom and Big Boom (2/3)

**6.18:** The Friend and The Phone (27)

**7.18:** Cleft 'n' Wrecked (12/13) A Nightly Sun (29/30)

**8.18:** Adventures Around the Campus (8) Four Dreams (16) At A Resort of Sorts (17) At Goodwill (18/19) The Desk and The Classroom (31)

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**2.19:** The Bookshelf in the Bedroom (11) Walking The School (12)

**11.19:** Edwin's Dream (30)

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**4.20:** The Gangster Academy (1/2) Rococo And Ornate Filigree (4) Reading Matthew Chapter 13 (7/8) The Miniature Lighthouse (9) The Forgotten Discord Messages (12/13) The Wide-Maw Raccoons (14) A Ladybug's Family (15) An Extremely Short Dream (16) The Intruder (17) The Supermarket and The Wheat Fields (18) The Maskies (19) The Social Event (20) Jim Croce and The Riddle (20/21) The Chlorine-Eyed Girl (22/23) Collecting Four-Leaf Clovers (27/28) Running Up The Walls (28/29)

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**7.20:** Small Cars (10/11) Tracing Geodesics (12) The Pond (13) **The Mushrooms and Winding Corridors** (18) Water, Wasps, and Hawks (21/22) The Grasshopper (26/27) Purple Cyclopian Eye (28/29)

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**11.20:** The Impossible Colors (11.31/12.1)

**12.20:** Snowful Exercise (8/9) The Oneironautic Ordinal Notation (19/20) Roaches (21/22) The Hottest Bath You'll Ever Take (22/23) Dreams Within Dreams (30/31)

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**3.21:** The Endless Supermarket (6/7) Blimps In The Sky (16/17)

**4.22:** Door And The Woods (6) The Renovated Bedroom (8) The Excursion in the Woods (13)