Adventures in Dreamscapering

mirrors

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I opened my eyes, and saw only an identical bathroom. When I looked back the way that we came from, I could not see myself in the mirror, only Max.

"What was that?" I tapped the mirror, my finger going in and out of it like it was pudding.

"Welcome to the Dreamscape!" Max said and made jazz hands. I noticed suddenly that the bathroom had become significantly larger; it had stretched into an expanse like a cathedral without me even noticing. 

"Of course you didn't, your subconscious is trained to ignore things out of the ordinary in dreams. It's sort of how they work."

Max reflected my confused look until he clarified.

"In the Dreamscape your thoughts aren't really in your head. They are...amplified, you could say."

"So you can hear my thoughts?" I tilted my head at him like a confused dog.

"Isn't that what I just said?" Max grinned a weird lopsided grin. I tried not to think anything weird about how this grin made my stomach and heart feel, and failed. Max blushed, his heterochromatic eyes wide and his smirk even wider.

"Come on, let's go! I'll explain on the way."

He grabbed my hand and we ran. Well, he ran and I dangled in the air behind him. He ran down the length of my cathedral bizarro bathroom and up the wall and we burst through the skylight. The breaking glass felt like sugar and paper cuts across my face.

I opened my eyes that were closed from the shock of it all. We laid in the middle of a street on top of a manhole cover, with  towering skyscrapers looming over us.

I stood up and felt a whoosh of air blow through me. A car had phased through my body! I giggled, it tickled in a strange kind of way. I looked for Max and found that he was standing on the opposite side of the street looking bewildered.

"Why did you cross already?" I asked.
"The cars may go through you but they will run me right over!  This is real life for me even though it's a dream for you. I'd rather stay alive, thank you very much," Max said resolutely.

I began my walk across with some struggle; it was something I had to convince myself was something I could do without waiting for cars to stop for me.

"I feel like Swiss cheese," I said, laughing. Max smiled.

"I guess it's explaining time, yeah?" I said to Max. I noticed his eyes had changed color; one was an odd orange-hazel and the other one was sea-glass green.

"Actually..I'll have your explanation later. Let's...let's have some fun right now!" Max replied.

"Fun is something I can do!" I exclaimed. He grabbed my hand again and I followed him faithfully into what I trust will be an interesting experience.