Recurring dream: Staying at a hotel

10-10-07

Before getting to this one, I need to give a bit of background. I have semi frequent recurring dreams about a hotel. In these dreams, I'm a guest and there always seems to be a problem with the 4th floor (whether I'm staying on that floor in the dream is not important - the issue with the floor remains regardless). It's always the same hotel, but the layout varies from dream to dream.

In one dream, I actually had a room on the 4th floor and when I was in the room, I was safe, but the corridor was filled with an overwhelming sense of some kind of sinister presence. Essentially, the floor was haunted. In one dream, the 4th floor was flooded, and in another, the layout of that floor was inverted, so the ceiling was the floor and so on. I was once even held captive in the hotel in one dream and had to try and escape (which I eventually did), by sneaking my way our via the 4th floor. There's a reason for this digression. Bear with me.

In this dream, I was staying at the hotel again. It was a lot smaller this time, but I knew it was the same place. I was with a party of 4, and we had been allocated a room in the basement. It was called Room Zero. One of the people in my party even remarked "Makes a change from all that 4th floor shit".

Anyway we set off to find this Room Zero. There was daylight outside (I could tell from the light pouring in from the windows), yet when we descended the stairs, the light seemed to quickly vanish and before we knew it, it was nearly pitch black. We were in narrow hallways with dark pink walls and many doors along them. Whilst down here, I got a funny feeling that something wasn't right and somehow knew that the answer to the 4th floor mystery was also here - along with something very evil (I got that same feeling as I did from the corridor in the room with that haunted 4th floor). In spite of this sense of evil though, I wasn't scared. We continued to walk down the hallways and I it became apparent that it didn't seem to end and even appeared to be extending in length. Also, my friends all vanished one by one until l I was alone. Once I was by myself, I saw along the left wall what looked like an open patio-style door. I approached it and witnessed a pale, eeirie orange light emanating from the room (which was open and in full view). In the room was a long table and at the end nearest me sat a ghostly apparition of what looked like a nun. As soon as she saw me, she screamed "Bah!" and dashed round the table in the blink of an eye (similar to how Superman runs). I then woke up feeling very unsettled.

UPDATE: I have had other 4th floor hotel dreams since this one, which is interesting as I incorrectly believed the above dream to be the last I'd ever have. In the first dream, the hotel had taken on a similar form to the last dream in that it was small. I went to my room on the 4th floor via some stairs and passed a couple arguing as discreetly as they could. When I eventually reached my room, I suddenly realised that I had been staying at the hotel at least a week prior to that point and that I had, in fact booked myself in for a slightly longer stay, and had returned to the very same room I had before. The room was plain white with a white wooden floorboard. The bed had just been made and the whole room was empty save the night stand next to the bed. In front of me was a large semicircular window, out of which I could see a large tree whose leaves were shimmering in the wind. I started at this sight with a sense of slight foreboding. There were also quiet strings in the background, similar to what you might hear in a horror film before a victim is attacked. This dream was different from the others in that the problem was no longer on the 4th floor itself, but had now become localised to one particular room on that floor, and I was staying in that room. Oh, and the tree was black. The whole tree.

In another, more lighthearted dream, I was in the same hotel looking for a party on the 4th floor. I went to the room in quesition and the door was opened by an aimiable but somewhat overweight, "nerdy" looking man who invited me in to the party. He also told me there was a ghost in the room.

It's interesting that I keep dreaming about this hotel, and that there's always some kind of problem related to the 4th floor. Perhaps there's something within myself that I need to resolve? Is this what leads me back to this hotel?