International Oneironaut Shared Dreaming Journal

MischiefManaged Dream

Me and my father are standing in the skyscraper on the floor full of lifts. The doors to them are really beautiful, the paint on them looks familiar (I have flashbacks of seeing it somewhere) – it’s warm red with tiny white scratches. I tell my dad to be careful, because the texture of this paint when you look at it without knowing this fact make you forget why you are in this place. I know we shouldn’t use these lifts.

When I turn to my dad again I only see his back in the lift, doors close instantly. I yell “Dad, no!” and run towards the lift, I can hear that it didn’t move. Near the doors there are 3 buttons – I thought that the bottom one means for lift to go down, top one – up and one in the middle to open doors, so I press the middle one.

I hear a sound of lift moving incredibly quickly, doors open and the whole lift is gone. “You just sent him down there…” I turn my head and see a girl, about my age, standing near one of the other lifts.

Then I don’t remember the piece. Next thing I remember is I’m in a stone room – somebody is keeping me. I’ve been here for few weeks already and I have to solve “the code”. Some woman tells me that only I can do it and I have to, if I want to get my dad back.

She explains to me that this building is an entrance to the Underworld, where all the human fears are kept and unspeakable things happen. She says that these lifts only work for these creatures – they sometimes go up on the surface to hunt or rarely take hostages like my father. She says she is a part of group, who is trying to get there, to talk to “intelligent ones” to reset the balance.

They have been training me for weeks and I am a part of their team myself now.
Then we hear some sort of noise from the floor, she leaves the room to look what’s going on and tells me to stay in. I take a peek outside and see a huge stone creature at least 20 times bigger than her. It smashes her in one step and turns around. I quickly close the door and through the keyhole see how it goes into lift room and goes down.

After some time as I understood a few members of the team come to me asking what happened. I describe them the creature and they say it’s called “free stone”. One man picks up something that looks like a piece of the creature’s tail. Next thing I know the tail breaks in 5 pieces and from each a stone version of Oni’s ninjas appear looking somewhat like this:


Then I guess I woke up.