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A weird dream - Imagination or a glimpse beyond?

Where dreams intersect reality!!!

By aishu VPublished 10 months ago 3 min read
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In the stillness of a starry night, I discovered myself slipping into a very strange dream. As I closed my eyes, the lines between reality and fiction started to blend together. The dream that developed was unlike anything I had ever known, a confusing journey where the distinctions between the strange and the commonplace were blurred.

In this dream, gravity had lost its hold, and when I awoke, I was in that realm. The air was filled with whimsically floating objects, and I was also suspended in midair as though by an unseen force. I navigated this strange environment with an uncanny calmness, accepting the insanity all around me.

I soon came across individuals who appeared to be equally perplexed as I was. Their words flowed in illogical patterns that defied logic as they spoke in riddles. Yet in some way, the meaning of their statements was profound. I participated in discussions where the distinctions between reality and illusion were utterly erroneous. Each word that was said held a weight that was both illuminating and perplexing.

With each step I took further into this confusing world, the surroundings changed. As I got closer, the trees began to grow colorful, illuminating fruits that changed color. Unusual-looking animals walked freely, their gazes piercing my heart. Purple and green shades of the sky alternated, and the constellations danced with astonishing grace.

As a result, time lost all sense of order as days transformed into nights and vice versa. I lost the ability to distinguish between awake and sleeping periods. The limits of time and space vanished in this other universe. I noticed that I was having intense flashbacks to my past and views of alternative futures, as if the dream world held information that reality had kept to itself.

I ran upon loved ones who departed from my life for a very long time in the middle of this confusing journey. They greeted me with warmth, but their presence simply made things more confusing. Were they ghosts from worlds beyond our comprehension or were they figments of my imagination? The cloak between their existence and mine remained covered in mystery, despite the comfort and knowledge their whispered words provided.

I started to feel increasingly uneasy as my dream went on. The bizarre quirks of this dream world, which had once been endearing, were now oppressive. My mind was tormented by the uncertainty of what was real and what was imagined. I wanted for the security of reality and the comfortable familiarity of solid ground beneath my feet.

I was startled awake and felt my heart racing. I was saturated in sweat and scanning my surroundings with keen awareness. With the warm glow from the morning light, the room looked exactly the same as it always did. Like a wisp of smoke, the dream had vanished, leaving only shards of memory and a lingering sensation of perplexity.

Days went by, but I couldn't get the dream out of my head. I had doubts about the nature of reality and how far reaching our senses were. I questioned whether the dream was a glimpse into an other reality or just the result of my busy imagination. Maybe it served as a reminder that the lines we think separate things are just illusions and that reality is a tapestry made of the threads of dreams and waking life.

So I set out on a lifelong quest to understand the mysteries behind that strangest and most perplexing dream, always looking for the elusive truth that resides at the nexus of reality and dreams.

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