Just a dream

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Looking Back

It was just a dream, and I knew it, but somehow it seemed real. Well, dreams are always supposed to feel real when you're in them, aren't they? But this was a very different kind of real. It was like I had been freezing time in one world, then switching back to the other, ageing at the same rate as if I were just travelling abroad for a while, then coming back a little older. I would fall asleep feeling thirteen, still wake up looking the same, but wake up feeling like I was six months older. It had been happening since I was five, and the time I spent in the Dream world would grow longer and longer.

Then it stopped.

One time, it just stopped. it was the last time I would ever visit the Dream world, but I didn't know it at the time. I am the Great Mystery, and this is my story ...

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