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Bad Dream

Dec 29, 2005 Daily Blurbs

I dreamed of people who were dead, are dead and will be dead. It wasn’t a pretty sight. I wanted to wake up, but I couldn’t. I tried to scream and make sense of it all, but I couldn’t hear myself. I saw a friend of mine fall of a cliff and another one crying because of his own loss. A friend, who held my hand so tight, just looked at me, pleading for an answer. I couldn’t even tell him that he’s dead! I tried to wriggle his hand from mine because it felt the coldest of the cold, but he would just hold on tighter, and I just stopped struggling. He took me to a place that I haven’t gone to for a long time, the Church. A celebration was going on and he showed me that the people singing in the choir were my family and relatives. I couldn’t make out the songs that they were singing, but they seemed not to see me at all. I looked at my friend to search for a clue, but he just stared back, blankly. His eyes were like a bottomless pit of nothingness. I tried to ask a question, but I couldn’t speak. He let go of my hand and left. I found myself on top of a boulder, on the edge of a cliff. I felt the ground moving below me. I felt like floating, but then I realized that I was falling so fast. I wanted to feel the concrete hit me because I know that I would wake up by then, but that didn’t happen. Water. I was surrounded by violent waves of water. I couldn’t see anything else, but. I would sometimes go under and gasp for air when I get a chance to go up. Suddenly, I felt a tugging motion from my leg. I tried to touch what it was, it was a rope tied on my right leg. I tugged back. Then I felt myself moving towards the force of the tugging. It was so fast that I felt like flying. I closed my eyes, and suddenly, I stopped moving. I opened my eyes and I was greeted by a familiar face, my friend. I smiled at him, he just saved my life, I tried to say. Then he started to cry. I didn’t understand why. He showed me a path leading somewhere. He held my hand tightly, just like before, and he led the way. When we got there, a small hut was built neatly in the middle of the grass field. He looked at me with poignant eyes and I looked back in confusion. He let go of my hand and pointed to the little hut. I went on without him. I couldn’t take the suspense anymore, so I ran as fast as I could towards the hut. When I got there, I slowly opened the door and peaked in. Blood rushed to my head in full blast and screamed on top my lungs when I saw myself hanging from the ceiling, DEAD! …And yes, I woke up to my cell phone ringing. Thank heavens!

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