To Cross Dimensions

A dream I had, about leaving this world behind and entering an old one.

I woke up early in the morning and looked out my window facing the east.  Sunrise had not begun yet, but I could feel excitement bridling within me.  I did not know what it was for, except for this new day. Smiling to myself I got up and got dressed, before quietly removing myself from the house.  

I began to head towards the east, following my intuition deep into the forest. I am not sure why I was feeling this way.  I stopped at the ruins of a castle and stared at them.  One of my friends, Emily joined me.  She stared with me too.  I moved forward to get a better look at the ancient ruins.  There was no room; the only one still standing was the east wall.  I stood at the south wall, where there was a little grass, but as the grass faded out, so did the sea water in the ruins.  I did not understand why it was so, how could I?  I had never heard of the sea being so far in land, even if this was from the north.

Something stirred in me as I stared out at the sea water.  I could not see the north wall for it was under water or possibly already eroded away.  There was a broken beam towards the south-east corner that was held up but what seems to have been a pillar of stones a long time ago, ere before I had existed times ten.  Yet the stirrings of something old in me, a memory so long forgotten began to awake.

I looked towards the east, a passion, a need to go east over took me as warm rays began to arise with the sun. I cross over the field through the trees, heading east, the green vegetation all around warming my heart and making me feel bliss. It took to mid-morning to get to where I needed to be.  Then as the sun truly rose over the horizon, the pink hazy rays casting along bits of purple faded into blue in the sky when I saw it.  I stared at it.  How was it possible?  It was a gate, standing over twenty feet tall in the style of the Goths.  

Hazy information came to me then, this was the East gate.  It always opened as sun rise.  There were three other gates to go with the cardinal directions.  I had to find them all and have them all opened before sunset.  I did not understand why I was doing this still, yet there was this drive to continue forth.  Emily stood with me there, look at the gate in pure awe.  I knew she was meant to come with me to.  Come to, where?  Where was I going?  I did not know, but the feeling of adventure got to me with the warming sun rays.

As she followed quickly behind me, I could feel the gentle breeze stirring my hair and my heart to its calling.  I felt the grass below my feet as I forged forward till I came to the ruins again.  As I came in contact with it, the stirrings of the memory appealed to my heart as the North gate opened.  I stared for a moment, some longing filling my heart.  Why did I want to go so bad?  What was inside of me that called for these ancient ruins?  Was I heading home?  Even though I did not know where I was going or what I was doing, a measure of peace was in my soul too.  It was like going home after being away for so long.

“Will he come,” asked Emily?  I looked at her, incredulous.  Who was he?

“Yes, he will come.  He will follow me,” I answered knowingly.  I marveled at the surety within my voice.  Who was he?  Why would he follow me?  How would he know that I was opening the gates?  I knew he was a companion of mine, yet I did not know his face, but I knew I would recognize him when I saw him.

Emily smiled and nodded at me and we headed towards the west gate, by now it was early-afternoon.  Even though there was still quite a bit of time left, a feeling of urgency of needing to complete this today made me walk faster, my heart surer of where to go.  Yet some how the warm rays of sun, the glowing green vegetation, and the grass below my feet calmed that other part of me.  A dual nature was formed through the excitement, the urgency, and the calm.  There was me that was wondering, not understanding, confused, and yet knowing, I was going home.  Or was it home?  How could I be considering these thoughts!  This was my world!  Why was I trying to cross to another?  I had no control over my actions as I wished to.

Then before I know it, I had met the West gate as it opened.  The urgency and the calm doubled within my heart as I knew I must head to the south Gate.  We traveled across fields, vegetation, tree stumps, and marshes. I would not run ahead as I wanted to, I could not somehow run to where I needed to go, I was trapped, walking, walking, walking, hoping that I would reach the South gate before I lost all chance of ever going to the next world.  It was a little after mid-afternoon when I saw the South gate appear.  A smile formed upon my lips.

Yet something was not right.  This was not all that there was to going to the next world.  There was something else that was needed.  So I headed back towards the ruins, following my intuition again.  I knew the sunlight was fading and yet the world seemed all a glow as if it was still mid-day. I was in the center, in the eye sight of the ruins in the middle of the field, when it happened.  The Gates for a star and Emily and I was at the center.  A smile came across my lips for I knew, that I had completed destiny all before sunset.  I had achieved and the urgency disappeared from my heart and calm across it.  A new emotion arose, one of curiosity.

I knew he would come.  He would come.  I stared one more time at the ruins, a memory of snow, a tree, and a house crossed before my eyes.  The memory had been so real, the biting cold, the feeling of being alone in that house, that I thought I had been there.  However, reality returned to me soon.  I looked over at Emily and somehow she understood as well.  The yearnings tugged at my heart once again and so Emily and I entered through the South gate.

The gate disappeared as we looked out in to the forest.  The trees towered over us and again it was still like mid-day. I studied around us, it was like a forest of Sequoia trees, except at a whole new level.  I walked towards one and touched it, and then I found a spiraling ladder and walked up, Emily quickly followed behind.  Reaching the top took some time, to my dismay it was an empty house.  A balcony with railings surrounded the house.  There were walkways from one house to another in the trees that connected the balconies. Dust covered the windows on the inside.  I opened the door to find everything pretty neat; it looked as if someone had just up and left.  I looked over at one book that lay on a desk near one of the windows facing west.  I slid my finger down its cover and a bunch of dust came off with it.  Another book lay on the desk, except this one was open, though it looked more like a journal than a book.  The writing was not one I knew of so there was no way I could unlock the book’s or the journal’s secrets. I continued studying the room.

Then a feeling so sudden I thought it was unreal came upon me again, someone was coming.  The wind whispered of it.  Closing the door from the front that we entered, I grabbed Emily and took her out the backdoor.  We quickly climbed up a tree and onto a branch that hid us from view. The sun light was fading now and darkness was quickly approaching the land.  Emily and I watched as people came across the distance along the walk ways in the trees.

They appeared as elves.  Were they?  I was not sure.  They wore green and brown clothing as well as green capes and cloaks.  They came with bows and arrows as well as swords.  Why would they come so heavily armed? As I listened closely to their conversations, they spoke of intruders, of visitors to this world.

That’s when he came.  He came at the wrong time.  We should have met some where else.  Yet as he appeared before the elven like people, they did not seem shocked.  They never raised a weapon against him.  At that opportune moment, I jumped from the branch to the balcony, crossing the distance by running to his side and I stood in front of him.  Their expressions were mild; it was hard to tell what they were feeling as they stared at me.  Soon Emily joined me.  Did they know me?  Their eyes seem to recognize me.  

A memory, a haze appeared before my eyes, as they stirred behind my eyes, something that was lost and forgotten.  I was here, somewhere, out in the universe in another world, a place that felt like home. A dream, a hope, a memory scattered, the beginnings of something legendary, a story coming into completion, from a cycle.  The cycle was complete; a new story began with meeting the old.  Where was I?  Who am I? What are these memories?  Closing my eyes, the stirring of the ancient within me had begun.  I knew too, that it was the same for my companions.  We were something old in different bodies.  Crossing the boundaries of time and dimensions we had arrived here and our destinies waited, but what lay here? Would I ever see again home?  At that moment, I realized I did not care, the excitement, the feeling of adventure came back to me.  I was ready.