I do not recall how this ‘dream’ started... but I recognized something of the place as I walked down the street - the ‘quality of the air’, the energy I picked up from the land under my feet. I was somewhere in the mirror astral correlating to someplace on the other side of the pond... something about it reminds me strongly of the countryside that was whizzing by from the train in the beginning of that movie “Before Sunrise”; Wikipedia says that movie was set in Austria, so I’ll just go with that for now.
I realized, suddenly (and this happens a LOT when I’m in the the flipside - more memory returns) that I had been here before, but in a much better “part of the neighborhood” as it were - this area here was a little more urban, and a little more ghetto... I also recognized that a prior adventure I’d had a while back (involving a zombie outbreak) was ALSO set in a much darker part of this same city. But that was over where the industrial warehouses were... and that was about 2 years ago now, sometime within the first few months of the covid lockdown drama; and that’s a different episode, which I won’t get into here...
I’m walking down a street and going to see someone... I actually don’t recall who it was now, as I was so distracted by the attention I kept getting from men as I went along. They’d take one look at me, and then be almost compelled to keep looking... some tried to look away and ‘act normal’, but they would always look back at me and then just STARE. At first I was self conscious, then I was unsettled... but it wasn’t a harassing sort of attention. And it wasn’t even really their fault; but I really had no explanation for how I knew that. Some of them I could tell were dangerous, or could be, anyways - If I’d met them at night, or passed by them alone in an alleyway, that would NOT be good... but here, in the daylight, they were... OK. Safe, somehow. One tall man, relatively well built with shaggy chestnut hair came up to me to ask if he could help me find my way; and I declined him several times, because he kept following me and asking. He kept smiling this goofy sort of smile, and a strange thing happened: I saw him, and then a flash-overlay showed a MUCH LARGER, stronger figure in his place - a WEREWOLF. It happened for a good 10-20 seconds: one second I was seeing the man, the next second the beast, then back to the man, and then back to the beast - like flipping pages in a book very fast, between the 2 images. The beast was a good 2 feet taller and about 1 foot broader in the shoulders then the man, (and the guy was around 6 feet tall) with VERY sharp claws and teeth.. but when he smiled, his tongue lolled out in that happy-goofy golden retriever sort of way that is just adorable. A werewolf man acting like a happy puppy dog, begging for pets and attention. If his actual presence wasn’t so intimidating, I might have laughed. He eventually accepted my avoidance of him and then hung back, but I could feel his disappointment... the poor puppy, LOL!
I also realized that some of these men watching me were vampires... and once that awareness dawned on me, the next one I made eye contact with smiled knowingly at me, and nodded. And when I didn’t react in any big or scared way, he smiled even bigger, being VERY pleased with this response for some reason. They all seemed to know that I didn’t want to interact, though, so they did not attempt to do anything; instead just watching me intently as I went along. The conscious part of me from this reality-realm (in our waking world) was a little bit freaked out, TBH; but the version of me over there took all of this in stride - it was to be expected in this particular area, and I knew that already (somehow).
I finally reached the steps to a large building that was retrofitted to be an apartment complex, and went inside, up some stairs to see my friend... I still cannot recall WHO now, though, or even if it was a male/female. But I go to their door and knock, and get no answer. I listen for a few moments and knock again; but still nothing - when a man behind me, coming out of another nearby apartment announces suddenly that they aren’t here - they went to visit some family for a few weeks, and won’t be back till the beginning of next month. I hadn’t heard him coming out of his front door until he spoke, so this startled me... but I thanked him for telling me all the same. He stood there for a moment then, and looked me over (not in a sexual way), and said “You know you can’t be running around here like that; you’ll stir up way too much trouble”. I stared at him kinda stupidly then, not understanding - the only response I could think of saying was “What?!!”
As he just smiled this slow, lazy sort of smile, he looked me over again, nodded his head, raised his eyebrows while looking at me pointedly in a “You KNOW” sort of way. And I didn’t realize this until later on when I woke up and was thinking about it; but he telepathically said these next words to me, while he was giving me “that look” (because his mouth never moved) - he said/thought: “You’re WAY too damn bright, you probably smell fucking fantastic, and you’ve clearly got no proper shielding up”.
Not expecting this response AT ALL, I just stared at him in a shocked manner, while he went on, saying out loud “You’re just too obvious, and that makes you very tempting - you should go to the library that’s nearby, and pick up a few books to sharpen your skills. I know the guy who runs it, I’ll call ahead and let him know you’re coming.” He then gave me the directions (we exchanged names then & shook hands too, but I forget his name now) - turns out it was only a few streets away, so I thanked him and left, as this was pretty sound advice. I could tell he was being honest in his assessment, and I didn’t actually know what else to do otherwise since my plans to visit my friend fell through... and this was as good a next step as any, all things considered.
Thankfully I didn’t get any more stares on the way there, as no one seemed to be out on the street then. It was a really nice sunny day - very cheerful, lots of song birds chirping in the trees and bushes... so I really enjoyed the walk, almost wishing that it took longer to get there.
When I found the right building, it was unmarked, just the building number on the outside with no signs - it looked just like another retrofitted apartment complex. Except each of the “apartments” inside turned out to be some kind of specialty shop with a sign next to the door - as I went up the stairs to the 2nd floor inside, I found the one with “Library” written next to the open door and walked in. I paused and looked around - it had a bunch of freestanding bookshelves in the largest area (the living/dining room, it would have been if it was an actual apartment) with a long oak countertop-desk near the ‘front’ of the room nearest the door; a man behind the counter there didn’t notice me at first as he was reading something very intently, so I walked over to the closest shelf to look at the books. This shelf was apparently all about witchcraft, black magick and books of summoning... I walked around, looking for something that felt “right”, and the man noticed me then, gave me a grin and walked over to welcome me. He said to find “whatever you like”, but what you are most likely looking for would be in that other section over there - pointing to the opposite side of the room - but that I could take my time looking around, no rush. I thanked him and he gave me another smile, and then went back to his book behind the counter.
The whole place seemed so... informal, that I could tell that the shops here were all known simply by word of mouth, and direct recommendation. As I scanned titles, some people trickled out, having found what they needed... they seemed to come out of nowhere, TBH. A man in a dark grey trench coat walked in the door just then, not making eye contact with anyone, and sort of grumbling... or growling to himself. He was rather large and stocky, and had a strained expression & protruding eyeballs... his aura was also rather dark and heavy feeling, so I moved away from his general area and pretended not to notice. As I went around some more shelves, there was a table with some books on display, and in front of that there was a big open bin - full of random clothes of all sorts. I started looking thru them, confused - and another new customer that wandered in saw me looking at it; and since he was walking towards me & looking at me, I sort of wondered aloud at him “what is all this for” - because to me it seemed to be a VERY large “lost and found” collection of clothing. He sort of cocked his head at me, and said “it’s for a human disguise, of course - you never know when you’ll need one” - and then moved on to look for whatever he came for. I was like “Huh”, and turned away; looking up, I realized the man at the counter was watching me then, smiling and chuckling to himself. For some reason this embarrassed me, so I went back to finding the books I needed. I could hear the creepy, disturbed man behind me making random grumbling or choking sounds, then calming down with long, deep breaths; he seemed to be hiding out of (my?) sight and staying near and behind the bookshelf closest to the doorway, with all the black magick books on it. The manager behind the counter looked over at him several times with a very serious expression, but he didn’t attempt to speak to him at all, even though he seemed to want to.
I finally worked my way over to the other side of the room, and discovered some books that felt “right” - one was about moderate to advanced energy manipulation, shielding, cloaking and healing. Another was about tapping into energy lines both naturally and artificially created, and utilizing that for boosting effects (building on the other book’s skillsets), and also for offensive uses, energy weaponry training, essentially. I was very excited about these, and I felt like the books were wiggling and giggling in my arms as I hugged them to my chest, and walked over to the front counter. The manager asked if I found what I was looking for, and I said yes and put them down - he looked them over and smiled appreciatively, saying “Nice choices”; when suddenly the creeptastic man by the dark magick bookshelf erupted. LITERALLY.
It was like a gurgling WAIL just forced itself out of him from deep within his belly - he arched his back and threw back his head, trembling as if he was being electrocuted; and his open mouth started pealing back like the wedges in an orange splitting apart, while dark slithery squid-like or Cthulhu bits started crawling out of the “opening”. The manager goes “Aw, SHIT” and sprints over to tackle the man, and the other men in the store suddenly come running over to assist him. I have NO idea what they are trying to do with him though - and I am standing there frozen. But then he looks back at me while holding the monster-dude down and bellows “WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Can’t you see that he can’t take your presence anymore?” I startle out of my shock, and step forward as if to run away, but stop, because I needed to get the books; I turn to the books, and freeze again (because I don’t have money, and I don’t know the price for them), then turn back to the manager - who was still watching me, & struggling to keep the ‘man’ pinned down. He yells “take them and GO”, so I snatch up the books and run like HELL.
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