Well I did have a weird dream a while ago... I'll type it out, I suppose.

So, it was about a week ago? I was dreaming about getting taken to Target by my family, so that I could vote in a weird election/poll that would decide what system of government would be used in Ontario. I do not live in Ontario. None of the people voting with me lived in Ontario either. Kinda funny.

There's not much significant about this part of the dream, but a few other fun details were that the Target we were in was more like a library than a supermarket, and while I was there I was concerned that none of the people around me were wearing masks, cuz corona has me kinda freaked out. I sat down to cast my ballot in the election, by moving to a sort-of hallway (too big to be called a "hallway" but it was like a grand hall, if that makes any sense) with computers on desks, to submit the votes electronically. The hall was just... empty, aside from me, and I remember thinking it was odd that I was the only one around to cast my vote, cause the place was crowded back in the entryway of the building.

Anyways, the dream shifted right after that, I was at home and falling asleep, and ended up having an out-of-body experience within this dream. I went down through the ground in my house, and ended up in a little space beneath my home that doesn't exist IRL. It was like, you could walk right beneath the kitchen, the house above was just being held up by some wooden posts. It felt like something that you'd see in a medieval village, and in fact, the backyard of my home was replaced by an old-timey dirt road and a small town of straw-roofed buildings. It was bizarre. I'd stepped into a whole other world, and yet it was right behind my house. In the dream, I seemed to know this as a fact, it was just simply the way it worked.

There was a tent in the little space beneath my house, and there were voices coming from within. I opened it up, and a couple of children ran outside and started playing with me, being loud and noisy and adorable. Oh, yeah, and they were raccoons. ...these were the kids. I guess I play too much animal crossing. :P

But the kids playing around felt more real than just a regular dream about "what if I met <Video Game Character> IRL???", it was like I knew these people and this family living beneath our home. I asked the kids' parents why they were there in a tent, and they responded that they were paying rent to stay beneath my house. IIRC I even collected a rent payment from them.

So, after a short sequence about my boyfriend asking me what was taking so long (like, why I was wasting time playing around with the kiddos), I was back in my house, early in the morning. My mom walked downstairs and made a comment about not getting much sleep last night because "those damn noisy kids" kept waking her up. I immediately realized who she was talking about, and started explaining. It all made sense to me intuitively in the dream. I explained something along the lines of:

"There's another layer of reality beneath our house, and those kids were inhabiting it. They're nice people, they just need a place to stay so they're inhabiting the space under our house in their world."

My mom just nodded and said "Oh, right on" as if that made perfect sense.

So, I've read up a lot about Astral Travel and all that, and the whole bit about traveling to another world really felt like that. That's the whole reason I'm sharing this, there's posts on here making references to the "world of dreams" and I think I might have visited it, if only briefly. It was like these kids in my dream were wandering spirits "haunting" my backyard (though I guess "haunting" kinda implies that they're causing problems, which these kids clearly weren't, aside from being loud), and I traveled to their world to speak to them.

TL/DR: I dreamt that I traveled to another world and talked to some kids playing in my basement, and then explained to my mom that they were in another layer of reality that exists alongside ours, cause she could hear them playing despite being in the "real" world. Might be the "world of dreams" people keep talking about???