10. Real or Illusion.

This time I hit the bed, I was already dozing off. I was slowly drifting off to darkness. I saw someone suddenly approaching me in the dark. I was confused, but when I tried to move, that's when I noticed something off. I could not feel my body at all! The only part I could feel was maybe my face. My lower body was in that position while the figure had started approaching me a little faster. I couldn't even feel my fingers let alone my limbs. I think I saw more than one person coming towards me. That thought had chills run down my spine. My mind drifted back to the time I saw seven people in my previous dream. After it went through my mind, I went blank. It can't be! That dream can't continue like this. Then I thought, is this dream connected to the previous one somehow. I waited. I watched until the number of people in front of me was visible. And if what I was thinking possible.

After what I saw, my breath got stuck in my throat. It couldn't be! How could that be possible! Even though I had woken up this morning, I couldn't remember their faces clearly, but now I remember the faces clearly and every detail. The people standing in front of me right now were the people from my dream. I just stood there. I wanted to confirm if this is a dream or reality, but as I couldn't move my body to check, I thought maybe this is also a dream after all. They all stood in front of me and were speaking about something. I was unable to hear anything. It was like my ears had been somehow made unable to listen. There was a faint beep sound going through my ears. Even my eyes were getting a little bit blurry as if I was losing consciousness. I tried to see clearly towards those seven people. I could only outline it as if they were trying to talk to me. I tried straining my ears so I could hear some keywords to analyze what they are talking about.

They were shaking me to make me concentrate on what they were trying to tell me. I could also feel the fingers on my arms "shocking" me, making me think that this may or may not be a dream. But somehow, I woke up. If that was a dream, how could I feel the fingers of a person I don't recognize.

As soon as I woke up, I was looking around to see where am I. I even looked around to see if someone's presence was available. But I found no one. I even checked the windows and doors but, no evidence related to express that someone was present in the room. When I finalized about no entry, then I relaxed gradually. Why was that dream getting more and more towards the real side? Tonight I was even able to feel someone's fingers on my arms. That was starting to scare me now. Many questions began flooding into my mind. Was someone really in my room while I had that dream/nightmare? Or were those my own imagination or mistakenly my own hands? While these questions were going through my mind, I decided to look at the time. It was near about time to wake up.

Without waking my mother, I passed through her room and went to the bathroom. I did all my morning rituals, and after a soothing hot shower, I stepped out. I wore my clothes for the day, but the dream was still going on in my mind. I had forgotten those 7 people faces again. I did not know what to think about it as. Should I think of this as a mere coincidence, or was my mind playing games with me like those damn dreams. All of this was literally confusing me and playing with my conscience. My mind was too preoccupied that I failed to notice other people in my background. I suddenly had the feeling I had when I first saw those people in my dream - A sharp chill running down my spine. I suddenly started to look around me only to find my brother and mother around. I silently went and sat down in my chair, looking at the window and watching the outside environmental conditions.

I could still feel the feeling I was just having that had sent a sharp chill down my spine. The perception was like the person was there, but at the same time, it was not. I thought of it as I was still on tenterhooks from the dream, and these feels were not related to someone watching me right now. Only when my mother places my breakfast plate in front of me did I regain my concentration and senses. Seeing me just coming to my senses, both of them stared at me as if I was being too weird for their liking. I ignored them and finished my breakfast, leaving for school without uttering a word to them. The whole day went by without any problems going on, but I still couldn't relax as if my guts were telling me that even if something hasn't happened yet but sooner, something enormous is gonna happen. At the lunch break, I had already mentioned everything about the dream to my friends. They were a bit shocked and also in a daze after hearing it all. After I finished, they all looked at each other as if talking with each other telepathically.

I understood it as the eye language we created. But currently, even I couldn't decipher it. I deliberately cleared my throat to make them known that I was alive and still present in front of them. When they heard and understood my clearing of the throat, they awkwardly turned around and glanced at my face. They already sat ready for my questioning face. Realizing that I already sat with one of my looks on, they mimicked me. After our glaring competition for more like 3-4 minutes, we couldn't control ourselves. We burst out laughing that people around us started staring at us as if they wanted to say ("Do we need to call the mental asylum. They may have escaped from one of it.")

We saw the looks everyone was giving and tried to control the laughter. If we saw any more of that type of stares and we surely would go full-on ballistic laughing. We silently left that place.