Parallel Universes

Not so much one dream, as a collection of different dreams that connected together or continued after I woke up and fell back to sleep.

So this started off with my floating over a landscape, which is a familiar scene in a lot of my dreams, particularly those I go on to eventually forget.  I floated over a back garden then into a house where a family were gathered in the living room.  I made my way over to them and it seems they were expecting me.  The children were very excited and wanted to play with me and their parents were eager to talk to me.  What was unusual about this is that in a lot of these dreams where I float over an unknown place and eventually attempt to talk to people, the people I meet are usually very unfriendly, but this was not the case now.

As I was speaking to this family, the wife told me that our mutual friend, a man called Mr Walker had told her a lot about me.  She also seemed to be under the impression that I had moved to the area and I did not attempt to convince her otherwise when in actuality, I was from a parallel dimension and was just passing through.

After I finished talking to the family, I wandered off but could not float out of their living room because the ceiling blocked my ascent.  I also didn't want them to see me floating off so I wandered across the other side of the room where they couldn't see me then made myself invisible.  The husband walked over to where I was and couldn't find me, so just figured I'd left.

As I floated around their house in an invisible state trying to find a way out, I came across a large mirror in the dining room, but when I looked into it, instead of seeing my reflection, I saw it acted as a window into another living room.  It was essentially a dimensional portal.  I floated through that into a room in a house in another dimension.  There was no-one around, and I was able to find a window I could float through, into the outside world.

As I traversed this new place, I came across a guy who wanted to talk to me and as we chatted, he told me a bit about the world I was now in.  The subject got onto gaming and I learned that in this parallel earth, the Sony PlayStation never really took off and ended up much like the Phillips 3DO in "this" world.  Also, Commodore was still a big player and their Amiga computers were hugely popular for both gaming and business (in other words, they were akin to PCs in this reality).  I also found out that Apple was around, but was not quite as ubiquitous as they are in our reality and as such, they had to diversify into household appliances as well.  One of their most popular was something called an iKnife which was used in catering and was essentially a very powerful laser that was used to cut through food.  Yes, all very odd.  And random.

Later in the dream, I floated around, saw the iKnife in action and also tried to look for portals in other mirrors, but this time, only found my reflection (which in itself is unusual for dreams).

That's really it.  I suspect the parallel universe stuff came from a conversation I had with someone in the week who was telling me of a drunken guy who'd reeled off a bunch of inaccurate gaming trivia, and whom I joked must have come from a parallel dimension but either way, it made for a memorable and compelling dream.