Finding a Dragon's Lair

I was a kid, in the family car, driving a long road to go to the beach, something we usually did during summer/winter break from school.

We had to take a small break from a 6 hour drive, due to some kind of car problems, I couldn't tell you what even if I really tried to understand. All of us got out of the car, and as they were fixing the problem, I decided to wander off into the woods, curious to know what was hidden within all that green.

I didn't find anything really interesting while exploring, just nature being as pretty and beautiful as usual.

Eventually, I got to the other side, past all the green, there was this cliff side, with a very tall and steep wall to the side, like a huge mountain to its side. I sat down and just admired the amazing vision, you could see how far the bright blue ocean went from that high up, I got really happy seeing it.

I wanted to tell my family about it, but I tripped while getting up and fell on a bush nearby. While recovering from the small fall into a bush, I felt like I pressed something hidden in that bush.

Suddenly, loud sounds of rocks moving and what felt like a small earthquake started and ended after a minute.

Beyond being confused about what happened, I got up really fast and noticed that a huge hole on the wall opened, it was like a huge secret entrance.

I could see the walls and floor were a dark red with a scale pattern, there was a very weak dark red fog leaking from that entrance as well.

With curiosity and a bit of courage, I went inside this mysterious place.

There was barely any lighting, enough to see a bit in front of me but still casting a darkness beyond the dark red fog. Felt hard to walk, hard to breathe. I tried to be careful with each step I took, to not create noise in the silence that place held.

Walking closely, hugging the walls, I managed to find a divergence in this long hallway. It was like a room in a house, but it was almost empty and had no door. The fog is still swallowing the room.

Taking a step inside, I noticed what looked like a closet door, built into the wall. A bit curious, I went to open it to see what was inside. With my heart beating as fast as I ever felt, slowly opening that closet door, I saw...

Darkness, It was like the light wasn't able to reach inside, complete darkness.

My heart started to beat faster than normal, I wanted to try to extend my hand inside, to see how far it went.

But suddenly, I heard this really loud noise echoing through the hallway. It was like a roar from something massive. In a panic I shut the closet door as fast I could and ran out of the room.

I ran, and ran, almost pushing my body to break, I couldn't look back, I didn't want to look back out of pure fear.

Managed to get out and ran back to the green forest, still running to get back to the family car...


POST DREAM COMMENTARY

Aaaand this is where this dream stopped. I woke up while running in the forest, still felt a bit unsettled after waking up.

Didn't get to see the dragon or whatever the thing that made that loud noise unfortunately.

Despite almost losing my heart, I thought this was an interesting thing to dream about, even if it kinda wrecked my morning that day lol.