nearsirius

I'm hanging outside a bar, its nighttime and there is a lot of very beautiful graffiti on the wall that I'm concentrating on. I'm with about a half dozen others and feel bored and as though I really don't want to be there. Mundane conversations ensue and I'm kicking stones with my feet when I suddenly feel a shift in my consciousness. I feel more aware, much like I do when I shift my consciousness in this world to enhance my senses (warrior mode).
I become so lucid and aware I start saying to the people I'm with, "This is so strange... why am I not waking up." I felt this way because I had vocalized my displeasure with where I was and my desire to be elsewhere. Normally if I am lucid dreaming and express these preferences the dream shifts or I wake up. I repeat myself, "Why am I not waking up, I'm so aware right now!" I turn around and notice a small metal door, much like a coal chute, approximately 1'x2', it catches my attention in a strange way and I look at it for a minute but then disregard it. I feel very warm and comfortable for a moment and I recognize a present energy as my friend Jonah (this recognition of energy without actually seeing this friend happens in reality, which is absolutely remarkable!). I turn around and he is standing behind me with a large grin on his face.
"Hi!" I'm so happy and comfortable with Jonah and he nods his head in the direction of the door as though I should follow him. We approach the door and I realize that although he is fairly slender, my hips will not fit through the door, but also simultaneously that I am in my dreaming body and thus this is not important. I simply will my hips to be smaller and fit through the door and am able to climb through without any problem.
He shows me a mold that he fills with metal and clamps shut. It presses the metal into a form that is much like a car bumper but more decorative - I am not aware of what this object is for. I know where I am.... this is home. This is a place we have lived together before, this place is "all time" and my heart swells that we have found each other in this place. We climb up on top of the kiln which has a vent and then a separate top platform that is warmed by the escaping heat. We lay on top and the kiln begins to rotate. The green of the trees is a blanket on the sky. He kisses my cheek and I smile and turn towards him.
"We are healers." He smiles because he knows. I grab his hands. I look him in the eyes and try to feel all I'd like to express to him that don't have words." I push that energy through my hands and into his heart and his heart beat fills my ears - I can feel it through my hands and into my chest until I realize our hearts are beating the same.
It seems like this knowledge kicks me into my own body and I awake.

*notes*
I started crying when I woke up for no reason - I wasn't sad at all but extremely happy. I love meeting this friend in my dreams, because we see so little of each other in person and have complications in our communication - perhaps because both of us spend a lot of time in a bit of a skewed reality. I was laughing and crying and laughing and crying. The place I went is where I would call home and so many times in this mad life I have said "I want to go home," and not known where I was speaking about.

My gratitude to Jonah.