Dream Journal Ultimate
Date: 5/24/2019
By Stiyona
I was late! I realized I couldn't lose my job as I rushed into a huge elevator platform with multiple sheets of hardwood stacked on the floor and sides. I paced around begging the elevator to move faster. As soon as the doors open I bolted out into what looked like a metal or wood cutting factory - grey concrete floor, huge stacks of wood, sparks flying, construction workers riding in forklifts, etc - I ran past it all and into an office on the side of the floor. I didn't see what happened there, only heard.. "(Boss), I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to be late -" "Forget it, get out of here." "But, sir, if you'll just let me explain -" "Didn't you hear me, go! This is the last straw" Yada Yada.. Something along those lines. Ashamed and distraught, I walked back to the elevator with my head hanging. I sigh, and out of my pocket I pull a large, golden disc with inscribed rings sectioning of layers, in each layer strings of unreadable symbols and seemingly random scratchers. It seemed odd, I didn't know what it was, but not threatening... Picturing it now gives me the feeling of having perfectly cool, refreshing water in my mouth, like clarity. Just as the elevator doors were closing I realized four other men were in the elevator with me - They must have quietly walked in before the doors shut. One sitting on a stack of palettes, one leaning in the same stack, one approaching me and another walking off to the side. They all dressed out of place, not casually like me, or in orange uniforms like everyone else, but in sparkling white pants, white T shirt and black shoes (purely for definition, the two by the pallets seemed white, maybe one was lighter brown, the one walking to the side was a bit light skinned, and the man approaching me was a very dark chocolate brown). The man approaching called out to me "Hey, why the long face?" I explained I had just lost my job. They all seemed sympathetic and he asked why, to which I told him on the way to work I found this golden circular tablet on the side of the road, and - well, if you saw that wouldn't you stop and pick it up? He took a look at the tablet, peering into it almost, as if he's seen something similar before. Immediately he said "hey, bring me a map" and the man leaning by the pallette pulled out a world map and held it up. He took the tablet from me and seemed to read each inscription, glancing at the map occasionally. Then handed it back and said "it says to go where the land and sea have swapped." He pointed to the map, and looking at it I saw a bright glimmering light emitting from the mid/southernish Western continental US. I think after he handed me the tablet and they joked a bit amongst themselves, smiling at me almost with glee, saying "I guess you know where you need to go now!" Then I woke up.