The world was full of these mysterious portals. Well, everyone assumed they were supposed to be portals, because they looked like metal rings of varying shapes, full of physics-defying swirly lightshows, but nobody knew how to use them. If you stuck your hand into one, it would just go through like there was nothing but an empty ring, and so it was generally assumed that they couldn’t be used, they were just there, hanging out in the background.
The “portals” were also literally everywhere, like, half a dozen in my mom’s house, which is pretty small, but they were just carelessly discarded all over and everyone just forgot about them eventually.
Facts of life: the sky is blue, the grass is green, the world is covered in random portals laying everywhere that nobody can use. This was just subconsciously understood when I started dreaming, it didn’t have to be explained to me or anything.
Anyway, so this dream happened back when I was still a teenager and hadn’t even started driving yet, so dream-me had no way to protest when my parents told me we were going on a trip. Don’t remember where we were heading, just that it would end with a large gathering of people (maybe a family reunion), which being the introvert I am, I did not want to participate in, but again I was like fourteen or fifteen and couldn’t exactly escape.
My mom told me to go pack so I went to my room and half-heartedly started packing, when all of a sudden I saw this small portal, the size of a hula hoop, laying on the floor in the corner of my room. The idea hit me like a bolt of lightning: if I can get the portal to work, I can use it to escape and I won’t have to go on the trip!
I started frantically trying to figure out how to use it, I think I even started singing at one point, and putting on various hats or clothing items, etc.
Finally, I found my favorite t-shirt, which is dark green with a tie-dye star on the front. I put it on and went to poke at the portal not expecting anything to happen, but lo and behold, it goes through!
“The portals can only be used if you’re wearing something green!” I realized.
My mom knocked on my door and asked if I was ready to go, which made me panic. Just as she opened the door, I took two steps towards it and did a freaking swan dive headfirst into it, and I vanished right before her.
I also remember something about running into a vague government agency and helping them figure out the portal thing, talking with a guy with a bow, and running into the Hulk, but that’s all a bit blurry. The Hulk could in fact use portals because his skin is green, but Bruce Banner couldn’t unless he was wearing the right clothes.
TL:DR, I solved a worldwide mystery that had stumped people for years and probably blew the minds of the whole world, just to get out of a social engagement.
