Entry #4130.XII.2024
This was a very long continuous dream.
It started with me being at my parents' home computer, my mom being near me in the same room, but i knew we both are in Spain. I was sifting through the files on that computer and found a very heavy (~14 gigabytes) folder that, despite its size, only contained about a dozen image files. I looked through them to see if i need to delete them.
All of these were photos of my dad. Two photos had him just laying on a couch half-naked and he wasn't looking like himself at all in these pictures; he had much darker skin and bigger ears than in reality yet i still knew it's him.
Another photo had my mom and dad, now looking like they did in reality in the '90s, together with some other girl on a trip; the scenery was grassy hills with a gray sky of rainclouds, and they wore autumn clothing suggesting chilly weather. I knew somehow it was supposed to be California. Giving a photo another look, i noticed my dad on it resembled how i looked in in middle school a lot, while my mom resembled current me and this third person resembled a girl who was a middle-school classmate and a good friend of mine. Plus, the longer i looked, the more feminine my dad seemed.
(for comparison)
I don't remember the transition, but the next scene had me walking through Madrid with my russian friend (i never perceived her directly but the idea was she's there by my side; our communication was more of an exchange of ideas telepathically than speaking). We were headiing to some museum and on the way talked about how Spain is, supposedly, obsessed with Soviet culture; and then suddenly we enter a place that looks like a decorative recreation of the Soviet-era red square, in a slightly smaller but comparable to real scale. The mausoleum it had was larger than the real one and made from black rock with crimson elements; near it stood a monument to Marx, Engels and Lenin, the first two looking forward and to the sides in 45-degree diagonals from slightly behind Lenin's back. These statues were made from matte silvery-gray metal, potentially aluminium, and were close in style to the monument to Yuri Gagarin. They were significantly taller then the mausoleum and kind of the centerpiece of the exposition.
On another look i noticed a grand construction around this entire square; it was all standing on a giant scene of sorts made from polished metal tubes and had a ceiling above it made from compressed sawdust. Then this ceiling came down and everything that was on th square organizedly collapsed revealing it was all cardboard decorations, and i exclaimed: so all that time all of it was in a book! referencing those books that you open and cardboard shapes spring out from a page.
After this square we entered a park which also had Soviet elements in its style, i.e. little statues of pioneers with bugles. The square had cloudy weather, the park was partly cloudy; it also had wide alleyways with infrequent trees.
The museum we were intereseted in was inside this park and we ultimately reached it. I only vaguely remember the entrance, but there was a scene of us showing tickets to... someone or something.
The building was much bigger on the inside especially on some floors. It had six floors total, but the only one actually related to the museum was floor 4. Floors 0 to 3 were inspired by my university's dormitories, but it had a branching network of narrow corridors made from black, damp dungeon brick, with quite dim lighting; honestly looked like something out of a horror film yet i felt quite cozy while traversing it! I think there were also some statues in there but i don't remember of what. The stairs were abundant and much closer to real ones from the dormitory. There was also some party going on in one of the corners of the building and i went upstairs together with people from it.
Floor 4 was much larger and had a semi-not-really-open floor plan: one huge room with only half-walls dividing it into smaller subsections, but these half-walls being as tall as your regular walls so you can't see over them; or at least, that's how it was supposed to be, but i wasn't perceiving these walls at all. The actual room was like thrice taller than this and there was a ring of balcony space around its walls from which the entire inner space could be seen top-down. The colors of this space were dark, vegetal green on wallpaper and textile, dark wood and once again black rock, with walls and all furniture following the same palette; lighting was dim but not dim enough to obscure anything and was only coming from windows, no light sources inside the room. Even besides the balcony there was a lot of verticality in the layout of the different subrooms, with stairs between them, and the subrooms were quite big themselves and potentially also bigger on the inside than from topdown view.
Wandering around this floor, i found a location which i knew was a place of one of my afterschool clubs (literature or astronomy, don't remember which one). Either way it looked different from reality and had large round wooden tables. I also found another location which sparked my interest: this room was on the balcony and had a small nightstand in it placed against the fence on the edge of the balcony. On the nightstand were a tape player and a vinyl disc. My friend wanted to take the disk but for some reason didn't; this was somehow connected to Minecraft, she couldn't craft some item due to being not far enough on the tech tree (?). We ultimately left this location and the museum.
After several hours, I returned to the museum by myself to retreive the disk. My friend tried to dissuade me saying she doesn't want it that badly, but i still go. I was allowed to enter with the same ticket since it was on the same day.
I had quite a bit of trouble finding the location with the nightstand again. I even searched the dormitory floors and ascended to floor 5. Floor 5 was even wider than floor 4 and looked like a shopping mall under construction, with empty hallways and glass walls into empty rooms; the colors (of the hallway floor and lighting) were desaturated amber. There were some people walking around. I sent a message to my friend describing it and pretending to think it's still a part of the museum, calling the museum quite weird; in fact, i knew it was separate from the museum and i technically was not supposed to be there, but decided that hey, the museum is full of secrets and promotes exploration into hidden areas, so the fact i got to an area i wasn't intended to get to will probably not bring me any trouble.
Then i ascended even more, exiting onto the roof. On first glance it was a roof of a decayed summer camp, made of cracked, mossy concrete, and all around me was a dense russian forest. On second glance the concrete became marble, but still cracked and covered in vines, the vibes shifted to something more classicaly-grecoroman. Iexplored this roof a bit, finding a sitting area, and near it found another way down which brought me back to floor 4, but it was an entirely different section of floor 4, also made of lighter, peachy-colored marble.
I don't remember much of this location but from it i quickly