...
I was resting on the tan stairs of my house after I'd taken some
ecstasy. There were dim lights on in my house. They were
eerie, and not at all warming.
I had not actually done anything, but somehow I knew that I had taken it. My
dream simply started here. I never took
drugs before in real life.
I felt as if I was
drowning in my
mind. I no longer had a
train of thought; my thoughts were a million jets zooming around inside, with no pattern.
Neurons were making connections for no reason. My
brain was moving at the speed of a
computer. I saw red light
patterns drifting, like the LEDs on a
Cray supercomputer. Maybe my mind was simply a
neural net. There was so much action, and nothing was accomplished. It might have even been a
seizure.
I did not see out of my eyes. I saw myself from about a meter to my front-left. My body simply sat there, in a state of
sensory overload. My head rested in my hands for a
timeless interval.
-WARP-
I was at some sort of
plaza. It was circular, with
concentric rings of colored brick; red, blue, green, yellow, and lavender. At the center was an elegant
fountain, but I don't recall its design. The whole brick circle was about 20 meters in diameter. Outside of it was perfectly green grass with small, red-and-white striped
circus tents all around. There were people everywhere, and the were definitely talking, but I couldn't understand any of it. (Also, I was now not on any drugs.) There was no sky. Not blackness, not white. Just
Nothing.
*pop*
I found myself on the back of what I knew was a
camel. (I am still in the plaza.) I nervously tried out the
reins, seeing what it could do. At first, it trotted, and I presently became able to steer it. I went counterclockwise around the fountain several times. Once, the camel began to speed up, and I almost fell off, but I regained control.
*pop*
I became the camel. I moved my limbs, the camel moved his. I saw through his eyes.
...
In
retrospect, I know it was not a camel. It had a camel's head and fur, but it only had two legs.
It was not a
lucid dream, it was not a frightening dream. But it was the strangest dream I ever had.
And I'll never try ecstasy.