Suddenly I stood there, dressed in baby blue and several years and kilos less. It was a very large room with many rugs that seemed to be islands in an ocean. The floor and walls were beige. Each rug had another design but they were all in shades of green. There were no windows but it was very luminous. I don’t know how that could be because I didn’t see any lamp.
There were many people seated on the rugs. Each rug had a group of people. Some of them held some kind of booklet, a manual perhaps? They were clearly communicating but I didn’t hear voices or murmuring. Each person had different clothes on and that had me thinking of the diversity although the people on each rug belonged to that special rug.
I wondered what I was doing there and what I should do. Then I saw someone walking into a hallway and I decided to follow. That person went to another room. In a corner there was a small room with cristal walls. The person I had followed was inside talking with someone. I suppose it would be a superior. It was too difficult to distinguish if they were men or women.
I waited for the person to come out and asked what it was they expected of me. He/she made it clear to me that they didn’t expect anything specific and that I could follow my own aspirations. I would certainly find a task ahead of me. The person turned around and disappeared through the hallway.
Very slowly I walked back to the large room and I took place next to the people on a nearby rug. Very soon I found out that this wasn’t a place meant for me. I stood up again and in another corner of the room I saw a door. I opened it and it looked like some kind of dressing room. Inside there was another door which I opened as well. From the moment I got inside there, I felt a soft and comfortable light coming from the ceiling and walls. It surrounded me completely. It felt like a shower without getting wet but it had a tremendous compact on me. I felt more alive and full of energy. After leaving the, let’s call it, the shower I noticed that my baby blue dress had disappeared and I was dressed in a beige tunica. What was this all about?
I went back to the large room and in that same moment I noticed there was a big staircase. So big that it was almost impossible to have missed it before. I could go down or up. My first impulse was going up but on the other hand I was curious to find out how on earth had I entered this place and wanted to find a door to go outside. Of course I didn’t find it. There were many doors to smaller rooms and I opened them one by one. Some of them were empty or, at least that seemed so. One of them had huge book shelves. There were also some comfortable looking chairs so I wanted to take a book to read. Standing next to the shelves the content of the books was absorbed by my skin and mind and I noticed I knew them already. After pacing a bit in that room I returned to the staircase. From here I could go downstairs but it didn’t appeal to me because it looked dark down there so I went upstairs and back to the large room. I wondered why there weren’t more people like me, walking around. Why was I the only one?
Now I went upstairs and came in another large room but there wasn’t anybody there. On one side of the room there was a large blind. I opened it and a lot of joy and happiness entered but I couldn’t see much outside. Before my very eyes, the big room came to life. A large door seemed to invite me through and when I walked through it I found myself in some kind of concert hall with many others in tunics like mine. They invited me to sit down. So I did and I felt the harmony of the melody rocking me gently. A tremendous feeling of peace invaded me.
When the concert had finished, the people stood up and one of them asked me if I liked it and said “This peace and quiet will be necessary for the things to come”.
It was then that I knew that I could come and go up or down as far as they would let me. That would be according to my own capacity of learning. Every time when I acted I learned something new and after that it looked like a new possibility had opened for me. Was this some kind of school?
At this point I woke up and started to analyze the dream I had so vividly. I thought that this was waiting for me after dying but then again… why didn’t I see any of my beloved relatives who had passed away? Perhaps I shouldn’t be too impatient to know what’s next.
From Sims to Real Life 