#dreamdriftjournal

being a dream-witness means drifting through the in-between—not quite asleep, not quite awake—while something unfolds around me.

i’m not the main character.

i don’t control the dream or bend the sky.

i rarely even speak.

instead, i see.

i drift.

i feel what’s happening like it’s happening to me, even when it’s not my body, not my life.

sometimes i’m in someone else entirely, watching through their eyes.

sometimes i float above, like a lens or a ghost.

sometimes i’m hiding in the corner of a dream that doesn’t know i’m there.

there are portals.

there are places that feel more real than this world.

there are narrators who speak over it all like it’s a sacred story being told only once.

to be a dream-witness is not to control. it’s to observe with reverence.

to listen.

to remember fragments like relics.

to wake up knowing something happened, even if you don’t have all the words for it yet.

i believe dream-witnessing is a gift.

a slow unfolding.

a kind of spirit training, maybe.

not for power. not for escape.

but for seeing clearly across the veil.

and one day, maybe,

i’ll be ready to move inside those worlds.

but for now, i watch.

i witness.

i remember.

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would love to know if others have felt this too.

if you’ve ever drifted silently through another life in a dream, only witnessing,

last night, after waking up around 3 a.m. and drifting back to sleep, i dropped into one of those dreams.

not a regular dream.

not even a lucid one, really.

i was just there—inside someone else, spectating from their body but not fully them.

it felt like i was on another planet—somewhere between a moon and mars.

red-gray dust. dark sky. stillness.

the person i was inside had something in their hand—a glowing pen, kind of like the neuralyzer from men in black, except instead of wiping memory, it pointed out into space.

they spotted a bright white blinking light, just floating far off in the dark.

they raised the pen, aimed at the light—

and then a swirling, massive portal opened in space.

it didn’t feel like fiction.

it felt like tech from a future or place we just don’t know yet.

and then, the dream jumped.

now i’m in another body. another perspective.

a planet that felt like earth, but wrong.

no sun, just stars.

a regular town, but drained of life.

like the world had ended quietly, and only one woman was left.

this time, when i “arrived,” i realized i was semi-lucid.

not fully in control, but awake inside it.

then suddenly, the woman became a little girl—maybe six or seven.

same soul, same presence, but younger. more afraid.

she—we—were hiding under a blanket, curled up on a bed near a closed window.

not moving. holding our breath.

i could physically feel her body shaking.

like the fear had weight.

she was trying to disappear into the blanket.

trying not to be heard.

and then the narrator began.

a voice—not mine, not hers—speaking over the scene like it was being read aloud.

i only remember fragments, but one line clung to me after waking:

“a little girl left behind in a world where the wind whispers with voices it should not have…”

and that’s it. that’s all i remember.

but i didn’t wake up scared.

i woke up quiet.

like i’d been somewhere real.

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if you’ve ever had dreams that feel like places… like portals… like layered versions of reality…

you’re not alone.

we might not be dreaming at all.