A strange dream. But certainly. I had one that was very strange last night. Again, I apologise for straying off topic.
In this dream I am a third party, observing from outside a sequence of events, like watching a movie.
This handsome gentleman, about mid twenties, was dropping off his lady friend at her door to her apartment which was in a grey stone apartment building.
They exchanged a long passionate kiss, then she stepped out of the car and walked up to her door, turned, and waved good night to her lover, who was still parked curbside in his rebuilt 1960 Chevy Bel-Air, studying this ravishing beauty with the red hair in a red sparkly dress. She was a lady whom he had grown to love with with all of his being, his heart of hearts. She turned and unlocked the door and stepped in and gently closed the door behind her.
The next day finds our friend, the "handsome prince" suddenly sitting up among a jumble of sheets and blankets in his bed. Drenched in a cold sweat he got up shakily on his feet and made his way to the kitchen to draw himself a large glass of cold water, then sat a little unsteadily in a chair at the kitchen table.
A voice spoke to him across the table and our prince jumped up, startled, knocking his chair over. At the opposite end of the table sat a very well dressed gentleman, well groomed, wearing a fedora and sporting a meticulously trimmed goatee. The gentleman took his hat by the brim and nodded, smiling, then took his hat off and set it upon his right knee.
Half-naked, our prince looked at this gentleman, mouth agape, in confusion trying to remember something he may have missed.
The well groomed gentleman with the goatee pushed another chair for our prince charming to sit down, and obediently for whatever reason he couldn't figure out, he felt compelled to obey what he sensed was not just a request but a demand.
The gent with the goatee proceeded to talk to our prince, informing him that something had happened to his lover last night and to not bother trying to find her. He would not succeed.
Our prince charming thinking this night be a kidnapping of sorts began to lunge at the man with the goatee but found himself unable to.
The man with the goatee proceeded to give our prince charming some instructions as to where to find this large underground cavern and he was also informed that his lady would be there waiting for him. But in order to be with her again he would have to drive to hell itself. If he truly desired to be with her.
A little later, after haphazardly dressing up, not really caring as to what he wore, he got into his Chevy and headed out in the direction he had been given by the man with the goatee.
A short time later our prince skids to a stop with small stones and gravel spraying to the side. There it was, the entrance to a very large cavern facing the seashore a short distance away.
Stepping out of the car to investigate the cavern he could clearly hear the sound of ocean waves and seagulls in the distance.
After a short excursion within the cave our prince charming is once again seen emerging into the sunlight from the cave, getting back into his car and starting the motor. The engine roars into life as once again he leaves a spray of stones and gravel behind him. The apple green Chevy disappears into the darkness of the cavern, as our prince turns his headlights on to navigate his way down a very large cavern, which was about four freeway lanes in width.
Our prince swerved to the right, just missing a large boulder which had appeared out of nowhere ahead of him, grazing the boulder as he drove by it. The entire left side of the car appeared to have been scraped by a giant claw. The surface he drove on appeared to be getting rougher, bumpier, making it harder to control the steering. Our prince refused to let off the gas pedal in fear that he would not make the rendez-vous with his loved one as he planned.
Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead and cheeks as the temperature rose inside the car. Reaching over to turn up the air conditioning he found that the setting was already set to as high as it would go. Another hard, teeth-clattering bump nearly made him loose control of the steering wheel but our prince would not relent on the gas pedal as he leaned forward for better view of what was ahead of him.
He could see a faint orange glow in the tunnel ahead of him. "Hmmmmm, strange," he mused looking up at the upper part of the cavern that appeared to have been shored-up with wooden pillars. Above was a heavy, corrugated steel ceiling, apparently held up with large wooden cross beams, like what one would expect in an avalanche tunnel in the high mountains.
Our prince drove around a very long curved part of the tunnel as the orange light ahead grew brighter until the curve ended and the tunel again becams a straightaway. Ahead he could see where the cavern floor suddenly ended.
Our prince's right foot moved from gas to brake pedal in a blur and a grinding squeal of tires on the half-gravely and stone cavern floor, the front tires of the car finally coming to a stop at the very edge of a precipice.
Below was a sea of moving magma flowing around varying size islands of rock. Huge sheets of flame shot up here and there as he stared mesmerised across the expanse of the magma sea.
Someone spoke to him and he turned to his right to look. There she sat, his beloved, his beautiful "princess" in a red sparkly dress, the same she had worn the previous night. He reached over and gently gave her a passionate kiss.
I could see the paint bubbling and peeling off the side of the car as I watched the rubber tires smoking and bubbling, tires which by now had been worn nearly threadbare. The dream ended there. It was like a movie or real life, it was a very vivid dream.
Cindy