When I was a kid I had this really vivid nightmare that involved doors. Every time I left a room I would end up in a completely different place then what I had been expecting.
In most dreams, you don't notice that sort of thing until you wake up, but not that time.
In the dream, I was waking up late for my first day of school. In a rush, I got dressed and ran out of my bedroom door without a second thought.
That's when things went wrong.
Instead of being in the hallway, I was standing in the living room at my grandmother's house. I panicked thinking I was really going to be late now.
So I ran out of her front door and ended up at the grocery store.
This went on for a while, every door leading me to all the different places I'd been but in no logical order.
Eventually, I ended up in my parent's basement lab. This was long before the portal was finished, at that point, it was just a hollow skeleton of metal bars and exposed wires.
I don't remember what happens next, I don't know if I walked in or tried the stairs, or maybe that's when I woke up.
Either way, years passed and I nearly forgot all about. Until I had it again after using the infi-map for the first time.
It was more or less the same dream, it just added a few locations. Some were nice, like Sam's basement or Tucker's attic. I wasn't that excited to find myself in the guest room I'd used at Vlad's Wisconsin castle.
It did, however, end the same, with me in the lab, standing in front of the Fenton Portal. This time I know I went in.