Dream Journal Post #1

I was with my roommate Baxter and my friends Liz and Aaron and my girlfriend Katie and an older woman I did not recognize but who seemed to be a part of our group and who was friendly to me. We were walking the streets of Albuquerque at night. (I don't know why I knew we were in Albuquerque, there were no landmarks that told me so. I just knew.)

I was talking to the strange woman when out of the corner of my eye I saw a light. It wasn't bright, but it was enough to distract me. I looked up to see what appeared to be a cluster of three stars. They were lined up vertically, were slightly bigger than the rest of the stars around them, and they were a deep read color. I laughed slightly, nervous and confused. "Hey guys! Check out those stars!" As soon as I had said this, they disappeared. All of my friends looked at the sky curiously, not seeing the stars either. Then, everything got very still and eerily quiet.

Then the stars reappeared, this time they were deep green. And then I yelled out as the light from the stars hit my eyes. I wasn't hurt or blinded, but the sudden brightness surprised me. It was as if a small green beam of light had traveled trillions of miles from the stars to reach me and hit me in the face. I didn't feel different, I was just in a state of complete awe. Then I realized that my friends were worriedly asking me what was wrong. The silence lifted and the stars disappeared again. "What the fuck was that? What just happened?" My friends were just as confused as I was. None of them has seen the light.

Then the older woman in our group screamed. I looked at her in disbelief as she stood before me, her skin glowing bright yellow. She was looking into the sky, the same look of awe I felt plastered onto my face only moments ago. No one in our group knew what was going on. They did not see the stars and did not see that she was glowing. I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window and saw that I had been glowing green and the last bit of light emitting from my body faded as I drew nearer to the window.

Our friends laughed at us, calling us weirdos and they walked on down the street. The woman and I followed, trying to convince them we weren't crazy. We passed by a small carnival, it's bright colors flowing into the street where we walked. As we passed by the exit I saw a boy a little older than me half carrying a girl out of the fair. At a closer look I saw that a red light slowly left her body, and her eyes were wide like mine. I remembered that when I first saw the stars they were red, and ignoring my friends questions, I ran towards the carnival and the couple.

"Is she okay!?" I asked as I stopped very near them. The young man looked at me warily.
"Yeah she's alright, she's just a little confused." I looked at the girl, who did not make eye contact with me. She was looking up at the sky fervently. Before I could stop myself I yelled out, "I saw them too!" She finally looked at me, broke away from her boyfriend and got very close to my face. She was looking in my eyes, and then I saw it. Her eyes had specks of red hidden in her blue eye coloring.
"What were they?" She asked me. I did not break eye contact with her and answered, "I don't know."
We finally broke eye contact and look up at the sky where we had seen the stars. I knew in that moment that nothing would ever be the same.