Read part one of The Stopping Off Place.

I will often have continuing dreams. In some cases after I wake up and
roll over or go to the bathroom and fall back to sleep, a dream will
continue from the point where it had left off before I woke up.
Sometimes, they will continue on a second night, as is the case with
the hotel dream.

It seems to have picked up with all of us in a hotel room, but now the
hotel is different, the room is large and everything is well light and
the color is white and monochromatic. It quickly changes and I find
myself in a room that is much like a schoolroom from my elementary
school years. In this room, there is a woman redecorating and I’m
helping her. I’m not certain if it is Joan Steffan or Candice Olsen
(both from HGTV) or if it is a combination of the two. We discuss the
placement of nick nacks on a glass shelf and she likes my arrangement
better than then whoever had done it before we arrived.

I then find myself decending very large wooden stairs, very much like
the ones from my elementary school, but whereare those were dark, these
were bright. As I went further down the lights were flickering off and
on. I then seem to remember being in a big empty room  of some
sort and then am back at the stairs and end up in a warehouse type area
with flickering lights. I try to find my way out amongst the machinery
and try some doors. At thie point I’m seieng myself, but I look like
Emmete from Queer As Folk. I use the metal rings on my messenger back
to test to see if the doorknobs are electrified before trying them. I
then find myself outstide in an abondanded parking lot where no one
should be and I was concerned over being seen there as well as trying
to figure out how to get out. I spot chained off entrance that is big
enough to get through but there are college students milling around on
the street and group of gossip girls. After they pass I slip through
and continue down the street which is just as the street our local
college is on.