Dark night, am I asleep? My eyes seem to be open, but I know they are closed. A beautiful, intricate lattice forms overhead. Could I climb through it? My attention wanders slightly and when I look back with my closed eyes all I see are strings, or ropes, dangling just out of reach. I try to make these seem beautiful too, but they are not. There is a woman in the room where I am dreaming and she speaks from over by the wall. She is holding the edge of a door, or is it the lid of a box on its side, and with a smile, opening the door slightly, indicates that I can go this way.
I sit bolt upright, opening my eyes to my waking room and say aloud, “NO! I am not ready!”
But how easy it seemed, how easily I could have slipped out of my room forever into some other place.
Thinkings 
I haven’t had any open door invitations in my dreams, but I’ve experienced a few in which I was soaring high above the earth in a dream state from which I didn’t want to awaken. When I reluctantly opened my eyes on a day that followed one of these experiences, I carried a sense of being at peace with myself and the world for several days afterwards.
Interesting😀 I do remember a dream from very long ago, I was still a child, where I was in a boat sailing through a night sky (the heavens) and a man said to me as I looked down that it was the same down there as it was up here.
What a lovely thought, assuming you were at peace in your little boat sailing through the heavens! Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night / Sailed off in a wooden shoe…one of my favourite poems when I was a child. Such a sad time of year for so many who have lost everything. It’s hard to even imagine “Peace on Earth” at this time of worldwide pain, injustice and sorrow.
As I remember the dream I was being taken on the voyage as an instructive time. The man in the boat was my teacher, whom I suppose at the time I would have thought was Jesus. It seemed like what he said was very important and now I know, of course, that this saying is quite common in different philosophies and religions. We were outside time, actually seeing the galaxies moving and changing shape….