It’s been a long time since I’ve written down any of my dreams. If there’s one thing that I like about myself, it’s my ability to always remember my dreams upon waking, even if they were terrible. It makes me feel like my sleep didn’t go to waste.

Anyway… this dream I can only remember in broken fragments, so I’m not entirely sure where one part ends and another one starts.

• I was stuck on an elevator. There were at least 5 other guys in the elevator that I didn’t know. One of them had taken my phone. I was apparently their hostage, but thankfully the elevator broke. It kept going up and down again, with no signs of stopping. We could hear something over the loud speaker about how we needed to try and get out because they didn’t know how to stop it. Then, in an instant, I was outside the elevator. The guy with my phone was watching me and monitoring my text messages to make sure I didn’t contact anyone. I saw an older lady who called out to me, showing me how to fix the elevator. There were these double doors that you had to open to get to the elevator. She told me I needed to pry open those doors first and stick some chairs behind the door handle. Then it would be fixed. I later realized that I should’ve told her my problem was that I was stuck inside the elevator so her method was impossible. I never got to tell her.

• There was a random hotel pool party with really random people. There was a girl from my former work place there, too. They were talking about how we should all go to the pool or to the beach to have fun. My dream didn’t push forward from there.

• It was getting dark on a random, open street. It looked like I had just finished volunteering at an event. There was a group of fellow volunteers near me. But everyone was getting picked up by their parents. Before we knew it, there were only less than a handful of us left. But we had to get out, we had to leave. They said that nightfall brings out dangerous things and we’d never make it out. Our parents were over an hour late. We had to find an Uber. We walked around until we found this grassy, dark hill. There was a sign “Uber Pool” but you could barely see it. Thankfully, a couple people were already standing next to it, waiting, as if it was a bus stop. It ended there.

• Saving this part for last… This is probably the most beautiful thing I’ve ever experienced. Although it was in my head, it felt 100% real, and it was absolutely amazing. I was in a spaceship of some sort. A really small one. But before I knew it, it transformed and twisted into some weird shape, and I was suddenly outside of it. Some device was holding onto me so that my body was also flying over everything. The world was zooming past me so fast. I remember laughing and almost crying at how free I felt. At some points, when I was going over the ocean, I could feel the mist, and the ship would dip low enough for me to actually feel the water. The different shades of blue and white foam. The sun rays dancing in the water. The air that felt like freedom in my lungs.