An incredibly powerful, strange dream--enter if you dare! (Warning: long)

[MorningGlow]

Okay gang, this one is a doozy. Ready?

The other night I dreamed it was MG Jr's birthday. We were going to have a "theme party" at an outside venue, so we started shopping around to check out the options. The first two were pretty standard (I don't remember what they were--maybe Chuck E. Cheese-like), but the third one was intriguing. We walked down a hall in a regular office building, then turned right, around a corner. At the end of a short hall was a glass door. Inside, however, it was what I perceived to be a combination of a cave and an Egyptian temple. There were carved rock walls (they were kind of bronze/golden) with torches in sconces and hieroglyphics on the walls. However, there was normal furniture in the middle of the room--a battered couch and chair, area rug, end tables, lamps.

Then MG Jr. and I got separated (I forget how). He ended up inside the temple and I was outside. The door was locked. The information came to me--as it does in dreams--the knowledge was just suddenly in my head--that he was meant to be the "keeper" of the temple (that was the official title, which was interchangeable with "watcher"). He was alone in there, which freaked me out (as only a mother could freak out), but he didn't notice. In the temple, he was outside of time--he slept a lot on a palette in the middle of the room, but whenever he woke up he had no idea how long he'd been asleep or how long he'd been in the room. In fact, he had no memory of any sense of time at all, so whenever he woke up, the temple was new to him, and he wasn't upset, because he didn't know he had been alone for any length of time.

For some reason, people from Grey's Anatomy were in the dream (the characters, not the actors). Lexie had been a keeper of the temple, but she left when MG Jr. came in and took her place. I enlisted the help of Meredith and Christina to get MG Jr. out of the temple, but there was no need--the door was suddenly unlocked.

I went in and MG Jr. woke up and was happy to see me, but he just acted like he always does when he wakes up in the morning. He had been in the temple for a while--I noticed his hair was longer around his ears. Meredith and Christina left us alone, and while MG Jr. played, I started cleaning up the room--there were the gift bags from his birthday still sitting around (although I don't recall him actually having his party), and as I started gathering them together and throwing away scattered tissue paper, I started losing all sense of time as well. I realized that it wasn't a bad experience--in fact, it was the opposite--it was really blissful.

I decided to stay in the temple with MG Jr. for eternity (we were immortal as long as we were in the temple). I had some qualms about living outside the time stream--that I would be missing out on life--but I found out (again, the knowledge was just suddenly in my head) that if we were ever curious about world events or family and friends, we could "check in" like tuning into a radio station for updates. I also knew that we likely never would, because we wouldn't be "remembering" things or marking the passing of time. I was momentarily concerned that someday I would panic about being "locked" in the temple, but again, not realizing time was passing would keep me from freaking out.

Meredith and Christina had gone down the hall to wait for me to bring MG Jr. out, and they lost time themselves--they ened up sitting in a small office, doing a crossword puzzle. They forgot all about us until the Chief, Bailey, and Callie showed up--they had been looking for Meredith and Christina--and yelled at them for shirking their duty.

All the Grey's Anatomy people, including Lexie (she came back with Mark--the character who's her boyfriend--dressed all rebellious and punky), came to the temple to get us out, but I told them we were going to stay, even though Lexie offered to do another stretch as keeper (albeit reluctantly).

I jolted awake at 2 a.m., all freaked out, and had a really hard time going back to sleep. I'm guessing that existing in the temple is kind of what the astral world is like, with no formal passing of time and the ability to observe the world and loved ones if we want. Still, it was a VERY weird feeling, being in the "now" at all times and having no memories. When I was outside of it, I had a lot of fear, but when I was in it, it was the greatest place ever.

It's been a couple of days, and I'm still having a hard time shaking this one, which is what usually happens when I visit the Otherworld. Zoinks.