Date: 4/28/2019
By Ellainc
I dreamt that my two cousins Andie, Max, and I used our tarot cards to travel dimensions to seek out better lives. We gathered the things that we wanted in trash bags and held our tarot decks in our hands, thinking our desires clearly we planted a kiss on our decks and a new card would appear allowing us to transcend dimensions or universes. After we completed the ritual persay, all we had to do was fall asleep. My aunt was around but she wasn't trying to stop us. She probably didn't believe that it was going to work. The three of us went downstairs and into the living room and laid down on the floor, we all slowly drifted off to sleep and I felt myself slip further and further away from this reality. I saw amazingly beautiful yet faint colors, and before i knew it the three of us were standing in this large empty space- the sky a mixture of every color you could imagine. We determined which way we were supposed to go based on the color the sky was in a certain direction, and we all walked separate ways as I made my way towards the beautiful purple section of the sky. Soon I found myself in a new place, the sky was still wonky but i was starting to enter a place with structure and other people. I remember some people driving around, and running off with some people who were either chasing someone or being chased by someone. Then it skips. I'm in this old wooden house with a few other people. I sneak in the upstairs window with someone who I had grown to be friends with in order to see a younger girl sitting alone at a circular wooden table. She told us we should have gone to see the person in charge first, and we told her if we had done that then we wouldn't have been allowed to see her. We said our hellos and goodbyes before heading down the stairs to see the person she was referring to, so as not to get in trouble. I remember this person told us we could play a game on one of the large tv's downstairs, as the downstairs area was a large open bar full of tons of customers who were already pretty hammered. He said we could include the girl upstairs but only if we played down here to show off whatever it was he was trying to sell. I excitedly went up the stairs to get her, not sure if she'd be up for it but wanting to take the chance anyway- excited to include her in something, especially a game. Then it skips again, I'm in what I can only assume to be my bedroom. The walls and the floors and even the bed frame are all wooden, and i'm laying there being filled with regret for my dimension jumping. Suddenly, my phone I didn't realize was next to me vibrates- and in shock I quickly grab it to see a message from Max, saying the dimension jumping didn't work for him and he's at the mall. I saw a message from Andie too who was saying his mom tried to wake him too soon so he ended up in a dimension that was just a few decades into the future, from which I somehow deduced that I had probably gone back in time. I quickly unlocked my phone and tried to call Andie, for some reason deciding to ask Siri to do it. When her voice came back, it was deeper than it should have been and also a bit distorted. She said "it was nice having things normal while they lasted" or something along those lines. Implying that connecting myself with them would make it so the dimension I was in would no longer be normal, since this act of contacting someone in another dimension isn't exactly normal itself. A bit freaked out i shrugged it off as it proceeded to call, the ringing also distorted and a bit skippy. Andie answered, and I quickly said hello. He asked who it was and I told him, and in disbelief he told me my voice sounded out of whack and really not normal. He asked me a question to prove it was me, I think something about Aizawa from bnha because he's super into that anime, and I responded with "what? i don't f**king know how am i supposed to know that" and he sighed of relief and said "thank god it IS you". I told him I wanted to go home because when I left I hadn't thought about my cat, Baby, I didn't even take him under consideration as I decided to trade my life away for something different. I could only think about what would happen to him after I didn't come home anymore and I wasn't sure what the outcome would be. It skips a little and Andie is next to me instead of on the phone, and a game appears on the wall that i can't see all of thanks to some bunched up covers on my bed. it was as though I was given another chance to travel dimensions but I had to complete the games before me in order to earn another one of those cards. I played them with much anxiety but somehow ended up winning. At this point I knew I was asleep but didn't register it fully, as I could feel Baby sleeping on my legs and another cat walking around on the bed. Despite this, the dream continued on for a while- during which all i could think was "almost, I'm almost back to them" believing that once I returned I'd be able to wake up and be with them again- not realizing it was a dream. I don't remember much after that or about waking up, but it's so strange how the belief I was in an alternate dimension and had to win those games in order to get back actually kept me mostly asleep for a little while after I was trying to wake up.