Tuesday, January 26, 2021

To Dream or Not to Dream

 

What is the impact of a dream when it takes place in a location you know? I can definitely answer that one because my dream visited me when I was in middle school. To this day, I still remember it vividly even though over fifty years have passed.  My dream took place in the actual apartment my family and I lived.  This is what transpired…

I got home from school to find the apartment empty.  Now, that was a real treat for me because with having so many family members, everything had to be shared, even down to the sleeping arrangements.  I sat down on the Castro Convertible pull out bed in the living room and let out a big yawn. With a big smile on my face, I put my head down on the pillow. Then I took off my shoes and put my feet up on the bed.

Everything was going so right but then everything went so wrong.  I never remembered dozing off and then falling into a deep sleep.  That’s when the scariest dream ever happened to me!

I was on the bed, lying on my back when suddenly an adult human leg started forming on the ceiling above me.  It took shape like a large piece of clay being molded and then it dropped from the ceiling like wax being dripped downward from a candle.  This was a terrifying human leg.  The skin on the leg was as white as milk and the hairs were dark black and very coarse, just like a large ball of steel wool. The leg was severed at the hip.   There wasn’t blood anywhere but where the leg was severed, you could see deep red and pink flesh with the leg bone set in the center.

I froze in terror for a few seconds, then screamed and jumped up from the bed. As I stood at one side of the bed, the leg stood at the other side of the bed. I started screaming again and started running around the apartment with the leg chasing close behind me. Soon, one leg would be faster than my two and I would be trampled to death.

All of a sudden, I heard a door slam shut. I started hearing my mother’s and sister’s voices.  They were talking loudly to each other. I woke up. The leg was gone. My heart was pounding and I felt beyond terrified. Suddenly I felt a small bit of relief! I realized I had fallen asleep and the horrible human leg was just a dream. I couldn’t help but think of how real the dream seemed especially that it took place in my apartment. I tried to calm my overwhelming feeling of fear by telling myself it was only a dream, or was it??


Ellen G.
Jan. 2021

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