Lightning rain and a trans-dimensional train

This dream was from a few months ago. I had posted it a while back but it never really gained proper traction. Forewarning it’s a bit long with all the details.

The dream begins becoming lucid and deliberately leaving through my bedroom window and climbing onto my roof as I often do in lucid dreams. I had made it to the end of my neighbourhood and was stepping into another neighbourhood. From there lightning fell down from the sky like rain, they were gold or yellow in colour. I felt it on my arms, this prickling sensation, eventually I kind of convinced myself it was like the cold rain falling down, or that it was nonexistent. But my right forearm in specific was physically affected by such a thing with red scratches and markings. As I moved in this neighbourhood the skies were dark and grey and the atmosphere was off. Eventually as I came across more people they had these nonexistent or fake guns pointing at me which I didn’t understand but part of me knew not to allow myself to get hit so I ran. However as I ran further in I came across this man holding an actual gun. Now since I’m not a gun expert I did curate a description that went by ”a gun like you put bullets in and rotates, it’s hand held”. Anyways I ran from that guy, working even harder not to get hit cause I had this reminder or phrase of “if I die here I’ll die in real life” going through my mind or passing through it. As I reached a dead end I had stripped this wall of its wood grid and I attempted to claw my way through this foam that was kind of encased with plastic, kind of similar looking to pink foam houses use. I was caught up to by all those men with imaginary guns and that one guy with a real looking gun. I think I had grabbed the gun from him at one point (as he was really the only real threat to me). But as the wall kind of opened up I scrambled inside but unfortunately everyone did so too. It was like some underground thing, but really it wasn’t. I was on top of furniture trying to get caught.

Working fast I managed to out run once, this time I managed to successfully open a gateway through another wall that I found in the maze like structure we were at. Stepping inside I was in darkness. It honestly felt like a basement, the same sort I always visit within my dreams. I had kind of reminded and consoled to myself that a light would guide me out and that I was safe. Then next thing I saw was A light glowing from this staircase and reaching down to where I was. Climbing up the stairs and past this doorway I saw this woman I know standing by the front door, I remember someone else being with her, younger too, like two of them actually, I just don’t remember who they could’ve been. Outside was dark, you could see it even through the closed glass door. She gave me something as the door opened. It was red with silver metallic bits, I thought it was a helmet at the time. I remember running outside and down the stairs as she talked saying I’d use the train, when I ran down those stairs I saw it arrive thinking I’d catch it there. During the whole showcase of the train I saw an elephant go into the back cart at some point. But then the train kind of turned on it’s tracks to the platform near the house’s front door, it was on this white paved thing. I glanced over to my right where the train had stopped, the red of the train seemed to extend to the other carts which had lower walls. The woman I was with then told me I wasn’t riding it, I was going to steer it. I was kind of shocked by it but I complied. Taking a seat on the chair that cushioned me I glanced before me to where a metal rod protruded, it was like it was missing a steering wheel. Putting two and two together I turned the red thing I was given around, which I admit I thought it was a helmet, beneath it was this opening which I kind of saw earlier but didn’t think too much about it. Placing it on the rod on I secured it in place.

I then steered the train as we left the premise, steering it up the ground and into the sky and later on into space. I was reassuring myself that such a thing was familiar and that I needn’t be afraid of it, after all I felt a part of me feel as if I needed to feel fear, like it was something I should do, I think that was my human self, one who’s not just as adjusted to heights. As I steered the train I watched as a sort of portal or blip appeared, pushing me even further out into space or perhaps another galaxy. Eventually I made it to this other stop of some kind, like in a further closed off galaxy. There cards were pulled out in space, each appearing right before my eyes when I pulled to a stop with my train for the passage way. I was so in awe of it, of the experience. At first a few golden portals would appear before me and it was like they were eliminating themselves. Then I saw two portals appear before me, different from the blip or wormhole from earlier, the kind you probably experience as you go at the speed of light, they (the new ones after that experience) were golden and sort of oval-ish. As my gaze drifted back and forth to both of them I kind of felt a slight pull or like I had to pick the one on the left but I was so drawn to the one on the right, like I also felt a pull to that one too, it also ended up being what I picked. Then even more smaller ones appeared, scattered around perfectly in the same space. I saw glimpses into the universe or more like galaxy space beyond those portals. Turning my gaze to the right where this man was seated watching all of this happen, like a sort of gateway operator with this dashboard before him. I kind of asked if I could talk to him about the cards, perhaps after it happened or after everything. He seemed surprised saying how people don’t usually do that but how he was open to it. I seemed to step to the side, off my train as I talked. I still seemed to have the markings on my right forearm which (were also there when I saw that woman from earlier I think she looked at it but didn’t say much) was also in my talk, though I more so talked about my experience and how lightning rain fell on me. A few people came by, perhaps two or three, as a small group, I remember one of them being a blonde white guy. The guy I was talking to handed them paper currency, kind of laminated in a way like the shiny ones in the Canadian currency. There were like two colours in the stack he gave, a green and a more teal/ blueish one. There wasn’t really any words exchanged between them, more so verbally. I seemed to divert my attention to such a thing, fully intrigued and in awe asking him what was the coolest or most unique currency he had or saw during his time there.

Then in a setting that appeared more like a small cafeteria within an off galaxy it was still dark outside as I sat across from that man. As I was sitting there my mom suddenly appeared, my dad was behind her looking around. Mom said a comment which I think would’ve made the usual me a bit angry or displeased but all I said was “thank you… mom” it seemed kinder the way I said it as I turned my head back to look at her as she left. There wasn’t this sort of resentment or anger within me, just being. It was a pleasant surprise, after all I’d usually be displeased with her presence after everything.