Dreams – 8/28/2009

I dreamed that I flew to the edge of space.  I passed many people along the way.  We all flew such strange ships.  Some shaped like eggs, some like great eagles, others like Tetris blocks.

I couldn’t tell how long I’d been flying.  You fly for so long and time becomes meaningless.

When I reached the edge I found a place so beautiful, but it was not without a sense of danger.  Flora and fauna as far as the eye could see.  Animals that seemed so familiar, and yet, not.  I found a turtle, no bigger than a lime.  I picked it up.  It crawled across the tips of my fingers, and in a hair-split of a second, it bit my thumb.

It hurt.  There was a stinging, and then a burning.  I wanted to panic, but I didn’t.

When I finally pried it off, I saw its razor-sharp beak hadn’t even broken the skin.  Small, pink indentations were the only sign that anything had happened.  And they faded quickly.

I saw birds that resembled large pelicans.  They were as tall as me, with eyes like tiny marbles.  I wondered if they feared me, or if they might attack me.  They just stood there, stationary, unwavering.  The warm wind ruffled their feathers.

There were structures there.  Like ancient greenhouses.  They hadn’t been cared for in centuries.  The plants they once housed had since overtaken them. I felt that maybe there was some deeper meaning in that.  The children had outgrown the parents, and had nearly buried them.

A mountain range cracked the horizon, separating the greenery from a purple sky.  The paper-white clouds resembled whispy brush strokes.  The atmosphere played tricks with my sense of perspective.  The rocky structures appeared close and towering, though it was easy to tell they were hundreds of miles away.

Life thrived here.  An abundance unlike anything to ever happen upon human eyes.

I saw so much, yet I knew it was only a glimpse.

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