EPTI‘m at a party.
Not a real life party, with all the vile and vomit, no.. This one is fancy. White walls, nice dresses, greek-ish architecture. Everything has a sort of surreal glow to it and everything is incredibly clear. And yet.. I feel my leg touching the wall, my body hugging the bed. I remember being tired and deciding to take a nap. After obser ving my surroundings for a moment, I look at my brother who‘s standing next to me.
„This is a dream,“ I say to him. He replies with silence.
My perception shifts slightly. Suddenly I feel in control of all my actions, as if I was just liberated from binds designed to keep me to a single path. The world opens up in front of me.
„Come,“ I say and take his hand.
Around us the people have stopped talking. Their eyes are fixed on me. I walk down a staircase with my brother and to a window. It‘s pitch black outside. I can still feel myself lying in bed, and decide to try out what little I know of dreams.
„I have to go now.“ More silence.
Above us is a glass roof. I look through it and up at the black sky. Except it isn‘t black. It‘s infused with purple, in the most terrifyingly beautiful way possible. This is a dream, I think as I jump up towards the purple sky. As I glide through the window of the house, I notice my dream self separating from my real self. This is a dream, I think, but it‘s real.
I keep going upwards, reveling in the sensation of flight, until my own fear catches up with me.
„I‘m flying,“ I say, „but I can‘t fly.“
The moment those words leave my mouth, I stop climbing, instead slowly gaining momentum as the earth rushes up to meet me. Terrified, I close my eyes.
I feel the darkness close in around me as the dream fades away. When I open my eyes, I‘m lying in my bed, leg resting against the wall. I was asleep for ten minutes and I knew, in my heart that I had just experienced something special.
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