>I just woke up.

I took a nap during lunch because I was falling asleep with my head on the desk. I went down to one of the break rooms, turned out the lights and curled up on a chair.

I woke up, lifted my head from the desk. It was the training room upstairs, but it wasn’t. The room looked different, there were some people I recognized there, but there were also a lot of people coming into the room who I didn’t. Someone turned off the lights, everyone started yelling, I was walking around in the dark trying to find my way either out, or to the lights. Someone bumped into me, a female… I felt myself being groped — odd… the lights turned on and there was no one near me. Someone who was coming in for a meeting had turned on the lights and was telling everyone to leave in an exasperated tone. I walked out of the room.

I woke up from the dream… thinking it was strange because I had dreamt that I was upstairs instead of down here in the lounge. I looked up and there was a very faint light illuminating the room… a bit more then usual. Instead of a wall to my left, there was a closet, coats and other clothes hanging. I looked up and there was another closet on the wall behind my head. Confused, I looked to my right, noticed that my whole left side was numb, the side I was laying on.. so no big deal. However, there were bunk beds, almost like a dorm room, or barracks along the right wall. I got up, stumbled a little due to my numbness, and looked out to the rest of the call center. It was dark, brick everywhere… papers, it looked like it was quite a while into the future, abandoned. I knew I was dreaming again, and didn’t know what I’d have to do to wake up. I knew I needed to wake myself up, feared falling… and as soon as I thought of that the floor slanted down to the left… I started slipping. I crossed my legs, sat, closed my eyes, and envisioned myself spinning. The pull of spinning was a control, but then I started falling.

I woke up, my left side numb. I was on the chair… the room looked the same, the TV was on, silent. I cautiously got up and peered around the corner into the call center. It was the real thing. Still skeptical, I looked at the time, 5 minutes till I had to be upstairs again. I stumbled back to the elevator. I just smiled thinking how real it all felt. I was in control of my dream and it was great. At least I knew what was going on. I wish I had more time, didn’t have to be back upstairs, or I could have seen what was possible.

It was scary… but so great, I would certainly do it again if I could.