Recurring dream with many oddities to it

[Nightshade]

I have been having a dream about 2 or 3 times a month sometimes 2 or 3 times a week for the past 9 or 10 years. It always repeats itself and during certain "accomplishments" it tends to lengthen. I have no clue what it means yet I believe it to be either prophetic or maybe even an alternate reality?

About 9 or 10 years ago i looked to the sky and said something along the lines of dear great creator please help me to understand you and to follow your words and wisdom.
This i believe started it all within days i was introduced to Judaism, Catholicism Wicca Taoism and hinduism. i read a little of each and seriously tried to apply what i learnt to my life. That was when the dream started.

I begin in the dream by walking in a forest everything is slightly damp and the trees reach to the highest points in the sky. It is slightly darker than normal daylight in the forest due to the large canopy the trees make overhead which gave the forest itself a washed look to it as far as the colors go. it is a dense canopy and hardly any light penetrates the dense foliage to light the well trodden path upon which i walk. The trees are spaced rather far apart and have large trunks few of which are small enough to wrap my arms around. The forest is ancient by my terms of reasoning. I then get a sense that i am being follow and i glance behind me to see a dark robed figure keeping pace with me and notice one also to my left and to my right. They wear monks clothing yet i know they are warriors from a long lineage. i come upon a fork in the path barely perceptible yet i feel as if the "monks" are leading me to it so i continue on my journey and come to this large cavern in a hollow of the woods. the monks gather closer around me forcing me into the cavern.

When i enter the cavern i see a single torch upon a wall many yards ahead of me i go toward the light and it lights a landing at the top of a crumbling spiral stair case there is no banister to prevent one from falling only a great empty abyss. The monks wordlessly motion for me to take the stairs and as i run out of light to see i place my hand upon the wall for guideance. The monks remain at the landing seemingly scared to enter this "sacred place" (note that is what it feels like to me in the dream that it is a special place)

As i continue my trek down the stairs slowly trailing my hand as it goes ever onward and downward i begin to feel lumps in the wall. odd protusions, holes, and rivulets can be felt along with a very cloying sickening smell of copper. The walls become slippery and tacky and slightly warm as the steps altogether dissappear and i discover myself on another landing. I take a few more steps forward and a torch lights the stairwell around me in the walls and skeletons. individuals trapped in thier last moments of life much like the victims of the explosion of pompei. They stir to life as i realize my hand is soaked in blood and as it traces over thier forms they come to life attempting to grab me. However i am safe a gold green and black aura encircles my body preventing them from touching me.

I sit for a while and debate on returning to the landing above me yet finally decide to continue ever deeper. I finally come to an antechamber where a loan monk sits in front of a pedestal (podium) upon which rests a ancient and rather large volume the first half of the book seems as if it is brand new while the second half appears as if it would crumble to dust at the touch. He calls be by a name (if you need it to help interpert this i will give it to you) he say child of many your name appears in neither the book of the living nor the book of the dead. The time comes near to hand and the dream is becoming a reality while the dreamer is but a dream you control everything with a thought. he points to three different passages and places a gleaming sword in my hand he says i must choose my pathway for the gate is no longer sealed and my duties as a gatekeeper are over now i must go forward to what awaits me however he says whichever path you choose know this there is no turning back and this is the path you choose for eternity.


ok guys if anyone can help me with that part of the dream it will be Greatly appreciated and i will continue this upon another day. the cave and the antechamber were two continuations of the dream as i studied religions i walked the path as i focused upon a new belief one in a single god who talked to all of his children through different means i came to the antechamber.

[Nightshade]

i chose the middle path a path of balance i traversed a gauntlet of warriors which were all defeated with a touch and came to a brick wall at the end of the path i plunged the sword into ito and it crumbeld to dust i gazed out of the passage way into a sort of amphitheatre rows of seats converging on a sunken stage. upon looking at the stage there was a man standing in front of an archway with many runic symbols around it he has 2 acolytes on either side of him he says that it is my time to replace him and he is killed by the two acolytes i destroy threm and in the archway a gate opens i enter into a desert region with a river on either side of me and behold a great city with beautiful gardens a creature tries to attack me he is a conglomerate of many things it severly wounds me yet somehow i enter through my blood into it and force it to conform to my likeness. i then proceed into the city. and i then leave the city wiping its dust from my shoes i come upon a stone ring with two "alters?" upon each alter is a dead warrior one consisting of evil and one good i command them each to give me thier knowledge through some ritual and this is the point at which i am stuck and the dream has not moved forward since. note that this is an extremly condensed version of the dream and mentions no names or descriptions. the dream was very vivd as if i was actually thier i swear that if i knew it wasnt impossible that some of the things that happened to me in the dream appeared on me in waking life such as cuts bruises etc even something like tree sap at one point in time. who knows i might have been sleepwalking i cant think of another explanation