I stood before a closed oak-wood door.
I had been having such dreams for months. I knew that almost nightly, I had dreams beginning with this very scenario: standing before a closed oak-wood door. Once I opened the door, I was presented with a long corridor.
That was where the various dreams diverged, for each corridor was different. Even when I did not remember the specifics of a particular dream, I remembered that it was different from any other to date.
In this specific dream, I opened the oak-wood door and was presented with a long corridor made of cold gray steel walls and ceiling with a white floor of large tiles, each large enough to encompass a pair of feet with ease. Strangely, there is no discernable source of light in the corridor, as if it is lit by magic. Instead of innumerable closed doors on either side of the corridor as had been the case in previous dreams, there were tall narrow windows instead, each showing the interior of a small, equally-narrow, fully-enclosed booth, again with no discernable source of light.
But what was inside the small booths is what made this specific dream particularly memorable.
Inside each booth was a woman. It appeared that all races were represented, including some multiracial women. Most of the women were fully nude, although others wore such scant or transparent clothing that they were effectively nude. Virtually every color of the rainbow was reflected in their hair, both natural and dyed... with the exception of those few who sported a clean-shaven cranium. There was a variety of heights and breast sizes amongst the women, as well as a plethora of body sizes. But all were bound in some manner: some with rope, some with flexible wire-like items, some with leather tethers, some with chain, some with wide ribbons, some with vines seemingly descending from the ceiling of their booths, some with tentacles growing out from the walls and up from the floor.