In your mind, at night while you sleep, your dreams are your realities. But what if you dreamt about something so long and so hard, that that dream became your life’s reality?
~~Would you embrace it? Would you accept that dream as your new life, being more wonderful than anything you could imagine? Many humans would take their certain dreams over their actual lives. But what if your dream was so terrifying, so traumatic; it scarred your soul. To have a dream so horrifying, that you would be afraid to go back to sleep the next night. What then? What if one of those dreams became the reality you awoke to every day? What if, while you slept one night, all you saw was darkness? No dreams. No nightmares. Nothing. Complete and utter darkness.And as you looked around inside your head, searching for the dream you had become accustomed to, a faint light appears. You hear someone gently calling to you in this empty dream and you listened closely for where this voice came from. In your dark dream, you realize anything is possible to happen.
Light slowly surrounds you, as if you are standing under a spotlight, and you know only yourself can be seen. A faint mist glides over your bare feet, cold but barely there. You feel a presence behind you, and you can tell this is who has been calling to you. You close you eyes as he puts his strong, bare arms around you. He presses your back to his chest and wraps you in his embrace. This whole time, you have no clue who this tall, muscular man could be. You lean back to rest on his chest as he traces his hands over the outline of your body. The light dims a small bit, but you take no notice. As you lean into him, you wonder out loud if this could be a dream.The man replies that it is not. He speaks to you, as he slowly raises an arm to point into the darkness “You see, if this dream really were a dream, all those monsters out there wouldn’t be watching us.” You look up and in the direction he is pointing, and you see the most horrid monsters you have ever seen and would ever see again in your life.Because, in your life, the world you grew up in is over run with monsters just like that. Then you awake.
You rise from where you had been sleeping, step over to your bedroom window, and peer outside. Once you see all the fire, destruction, and war, you realize that for once, one of your dreams wasn’t really a dream. It was your life, and you shiver and wrap your arms around yourself, wondering if the man in you had been with was real or not. You smile and realize that if your dream had been real, the man must be. As you wander away from your window, you smile again, in hope he visits your dreamless sleep once more. Or at least a few times. ~~