Without memories nor past

I was trotting down the main street of Canterlot (the guard had told me the name of the city.) It was a beautiful sunny night although there weren't many ponies outside. I trotted in front of a shop with a banner that read “You are dreaming.” 'That store looks interesting, maybe it sells some stuff to improve lucid dreams... I would try it now but I have to visit Luna on the moon.'

I spotted a rainbow and approached it. Once I was at the base of the prismatic rays of light, I realised only the green part was composed of hard light. Therefore, I told my assistant to follow it and not the other colours. He nodded and told me to go grab the cart. We arrived at the moon in 1.36 seconds flat.

There was Luna, but she seemed much more real than the rest of the world, like there was only her and me. “You do realise this is a dream, right ?” She berated me.

“Yeah, sure ! Wait, no I didn't ! This is a dream ! Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh ! Yay ! I love lucid dreams ! Woohoo ! I wa-”

“Don't get too excited or you'll wak-”

I woke up in my bed, heart racing. 'Was she really in my dreams or was she just part of my dream ? She seemed more real than the rest of the dream. I'll know tomorrow.' Just as I finished pondering about her appearance in my dream, I heard a knock at the door. I stood up to open it, but I had a few problems opening pushing the doorknob.

“Why didn't you just use your magic ?” The midnight blue alicorn asked curiously.

“I can do magic ?”

She scowled. “Of course, generally all unicorns can do magic. Anyway, next time you shouldn't panic or get overly excited about the fact that you are dreaming. You generally wake up if you do.”

“Okay, I won't  next time. Can we just try again or do you need to explain me some things about dreams first ?”

“I'd prefer if you slept during the day, because I need to be asleep to merge our dreams, and I’m used to sleep during the day.”

“Why's that ? I mean, if I may ask.”

“Because raising the moon takes a lot of energy, and my sister and I discovered it is best to do it right after waking up.”

“So, what do I do until dawn ? If I try to read again, I'll just bore myself to sleep, but if I don't, then the same will happen...”

“You were right, I do need to explain some stuff about dreaming, therefore I'll give you a crash course on lucid dreams.”

“Now ?”

“No, yesterday...” She replied sarcastically.

“''kay, no need for sarcasm.”

“I think the library would be the best place for your lesson, should I not be able to answer one of your questions, we could just use a book to provide an answer.”

“I had never seen you before, but why did I know it was you when you appeared in my dream ?”

“Well, dreams can distort your knowledge, and I have the ability to distort the dream I enter, I could directly insert the information about my 'look' into your memories.”

“So what would happen if you died during one of my dreams ?”

“We would both wake up, since I just merge our dreams, that's why I woke up too when you panicked and burst out of your dream. Was that your last question ? Because we are nearing the time when I usually go to bed.”

“I didn't panic. I was too happy about being in a dream and knowing it that I-”

“Yes, I know, but I count it in the same category as panicking, because it has the same effects on the dream structure.”

We trotted back to our respective chambers. I noticed Luna's was right in front of mine. 'So that's why Celestia gave me this room.'

She didn't give me that room per se, but she wanted me to sleep in that part of the castle.

I hadn't realised I was tired until I lay on my bed, which almost instantly forced me into sleep.

I woke up because of a loud noise outside. The noise immediately stopped after I got up to study its source; I was still feeling tired so I jumped back on my bed and covered myself in blankets. After a few minutes I realised that I actually wasn't sleepy any more and decided to read a book.

I was idly reading the book that I had picked when suddenly suddenly the moon crashed through my window; to my surprise, it was around the size of a small ball. Then it popped like a balloon after the pillow fell on it, crushing it under its huge weight.

I ran out of my room, scared for my life. I felt like something was chasing me, and I turned my head to see what was actually running after me, and I bumped into something, or somepony, depending on the softness of the impact, and fell to ground. I looked up to see a very annoyed princess of the night. Again, she seemed more real than anything else; this time she didn't need to point it out. “This is a dream, right ?”

“Yes, one that is turning into a night- I mean a bad dream. Now, try to concentrate on not waking up  and staying lucid. And now, like I said previously, we have to try and find those memories back,and it could get difficult. Let's see what's outside, maybe we can find a suspicious spot where we could start searching for your lost memories.”

“How do memories look like ?”

“They don't really have a look, you just get them back once you find them.”

We trotted outside, it was so hot that the moon was almost burning my skin. “If the heat annoys you, just change it.”

I followed her advice, and to my not so big surprise, the temperature dropped of 10 degrees. Then the moon changed to a sun, which confused me because it wasn't my choice. The lunar princess seemed to read my confusion; “Since this is our dream, I can also change things. And I don't like to see the moon as a replacement for the sun...”

We continued walking  through the city. I could see that Luna was becoming more and more impatient, although she didn't say anything. “Is something wrong Luna ?”

“Nothing, it's just that most ponies prefer to fly than to walk.”

“Unicorns can fly too ?! How awesome is that ? But wait, I don't have wings...”

“No they can't, but now we're in a dream, you can do anything, you can even use magic without consuming energy.”

“Okay, I’m trying then.”  I imagined flying through the sky at alarming speed. Nothing happened.

“Just imagine you have wings, and then flap them a few times, it works most of the time.”

I did as she suggested and a few moments later I was airborne. “Wow, thanks, that really helped.”

Flying was amazing, and at that height I could see a weird poison green tower in the background. “Do you see it too ? That big green tower ? That's could be the strange place I was talking about earlier, but it's pretty far, you could easily make it closer to use.”

“Yeah, I could, but couldn't you too ? I mean, this is both of our dreams.”

“I could, yes, but I think it's better if you gain a good control of your dreams, since lucid dreaming is a really interesting thing to do, and, in case we can't get your memories back now, it will be useful the next time we'll try. So, go ahead, try to diminish the distance between us and the tower.

I imagined the tower the distance becoming nothing, and nothing it became. “You are really good at  this, most ponies can't do anything on their first time in their dreams, but you even managed to distort space, I’m impressed.”

“Thanks, but, the tower looks rather intimidating, especially because of that light pink aura around it.”

“Then let's find a way to break that pink aura down, since it blocks the entrance. Shall we ?”

“Yes, but how ?”

“That's what we have to find out.”

Suddenly, it was twilight and a voice came out of nowhere: “Luna ! Luna, wake up ! You have to raise the moon ! Lun-”

I woke up. 'What the hay just happened ?' Outside, the sun was going down behind the mountain.

After a few minutes of laying in my bed, I heard a knock on the door. Again, I had terrible trouble opening it. 'Why is it so easy to close a door, but almost impossible to open it ?'

Princess Celestia stood in the door frame. “Luna wants to talk to you, she's in her chamber. With that, she trotted away.”

I hit the door to Luna's room twice. “Come in.”

I stepped in the room and closed the door.

“What happened ? We were in the dream only, like, 10 minutes, or so, why is it already morning, I mean, evening ?”

“This is what I wanted to talk about, the time flow in your dream has been sped up and I think it was your subconscious. Your mind doesn't want you to get your memories back, but do you still want them back ?”

“Of course I do. I don't know what I'd do otherwise... Oh, and I have a question, how does it come that before waking up, I heard Celestia calling you ?”

“It's because when you wake up because of a noise, or an annoyance, it appears in the last moments of your dream. For instance, if you wake up because you are hearing music, the music will be in your dream. And in this case, when Celly called me, I accidentally inserted that into the dream. But now, exploring your dreams might be more complicated, since we need to always slow the flow of time to avoid having dreams which last no more than 3 minutes... Let's breakfast, then I'll explain it to you in more detail.”

I tried to open the door, only to be angered by the stack of planks. “Try your magic, simply do it like in dream, think of the doorknob shifting and the door opening.” Leaning forward, concentrated on the metallic part of the door, which was quickly surrounded by a pink aura. “Is magic always pink ?”

“The colour depends on the caster.”

“Then why's mine pink ?”

“The colour's often similar to your coat or eyes.”

“But my coat isn't pink, it's white and my eyes are green.”

“It's white with a touch of pink. Deal with it.”

On that final argument, we started trotting towards the kitchen.

/* As always, if you spot a mistake of any kind (contextual, grammar, spelling, etc) tell me.

PS: if you WTF'd during one of the dreams, I win ;) */