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Dreaming of Reality

Tips: 0.00 INK Postby KuroRyu on Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:58 am

Dreaming of Reality

Dreams. As real as your imagination can get, or is it truly just your imagination? Some believe that, while the human mind is asleep that we are in a state of higher consciousness. So are dreams truly imagination? No, some say that dreams are a way of sorting the memories of the day passed. Some say dreams are psychic visions, arranged in a way that the human mind can easily comprehend. But all are wrong, dreams are psychic visions, but not of past or future predictions, but that of other worlds. While the body is asleep the mind is opened to all wavelengths, even those from other worlds. Usually most believe that their dreams are nothing more then simple imagination, or just their strongest wish being fulfilled within their own mind. But what about those dreams that occur over and over again within the realm of your mind? Or the dreams that are able to interact with your physical body, the injuries you receive in your dream are still on your body when you awaken? The dream is no longer imagination, the dream is reality.

One boy used to have dreams of such sort all the time, night after night, he would find scratches or bruises upon his body that he received within his dream. At school he would tell his friends, but they would only think of them as stories, fantasies that he created in his mind. They didn't know what dreams were, what they're capable of, because most only experience dreams at a mental state. That is until him, and his group of friends, all managed to have the same dream, at the same time of night: 4:15 am. The group ends up having markings on their bodies, not scars, but symbols that represent two specific elements.

The next day at school, the group converses about the dreams that they all seemed to share. They all showed each other the strange symbol that managed to show themselves on their left shoulder. Not only was that strange, but the day continued in a strange fashion. They would see something, something running from room to room, window to window out of the corner of their eye. Something was different on that day, it was the day that the line between dreams and reality were to be distorted. The group of friends will find themselves in a new world, a new place, and a new state of mind, a state of understanding and enlightenment. On that day, September 13, Friday, 4:15 pm.

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"Let go!" Jason shouted as he awoke in a cold sweat, he gasped for air as he sat up in his bed, the beads of sweat falling from his face and making stains on his blanket. He covered his face in his hands for a moment before letting out a sigh. He wiped away some sweat and pushed himself to the edge of the bed, his feet touched the cold wooden floor as he got up. He staggered his way to the bathroom, he turned on the lights slowly, allowing his eyes to adjust to the sudden brightness. He hunched over the sink and started the cold water, allowing it pool into the closed sink, pieces and images of the dream flashed violently in his mind. He splashed water in his face as he remembered the last scene before he awoke. A cloaked figure that grasped his shoulder, a burning sensation running through his body, he shook his head. He remembered what dreams like this did to him, he looked at his left shoulder in the mirror for scars, and as he thought, there was something. Although, to his surprise, it wasn't a scar, it looked more like a symbol of some sort. He looked at the strange shape closely, A circle, within an upside down triangle, within a circle, within another triangle, within two circles. "Strange" he said to himself as he stared, the mark suddenly came to life for a moment, showing a flash of red before fading away, dormant once more.

He shook his head and dried his face with a towel, he looked at the digital clock besides his bed, 4:15 am it read. He sniffed a bit before he sat down on the edge of his bed, he put a hand on the clock and turned off the alarm. He knew he wouldn't be able to sleep once more after awaking from such a dream. He bit his thumbnail, as always after such dreams, he sat, thought, this time it was different. Usually his dream left scars, and he had many to prove that, but this time a strange symbol managed to etch itself onto his shoulder. Then the glow of red that illuminated from the marking, it meant something, what it meant he didn't know yet. He knew one thing for certain, that his friends probably won't believe his story when he gets to school in the morning.

The clock turned to 5am, he decided he should get dressed and get himself some breakfast. He pulled off his old shirt and jeans, and pulled on some fresh ones from the laundry basket, well, semi-fresh. He made his way down the stairs into the living room, taking a left and getting himself into the kitchen. As usual his mother left something in the microwave for him, this time it was oatmeal. His parent's always went to work in the early hours, and always came home late, it was as if he was living on his own with two ghosts wandering around his home. He heated the oatmeal for a bit, and set up some milk on the table, as well as searching for some honey to smother the nasty stuff with. The microwave rang out it's beeps and he placed the bowl of, who knows what, on the table and poured honey all atop of it. He sighed as he silently scooped the mess from the bowl into his mouth, things are going to be different today, he felt it would be so.
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Re: Dreaming of Reality (Still Open, see OOC)

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"AGH!" Jude screamed, jumping up in bed. He hit the floor in a tangle of blankets. Moaning softly, he grabbed his self phone of the nightstand, his face still pressed into the floor. The face read 4:15 A.M. "Fuck." Jude grumbled. "Now I'm gonna be all messed up tomorrow."

Yet by 4:16 Jude was asleep again. His mother pounded on the door at 7:45. Jude's alarm was supposed to wake him up at 7:30, but he had slept through it. Again. "JUDE!" She screamed, opening the door, and yelling at the lump on the floor, "Get your lazy ass out of bed before I beat it!" Moaning again, Jude tossed his pillow at her, to show he was getting up. She shut the door before it hit. Five minutes later, Jude sat up. School started in ten minutes.

Yawning, he stood, and scratched about, as he scrounged for clean clothes. He vaguely remembered a weird dream, but he couldn't remember what it had been about. Walking past his closed door to his dresser, in the off chance it still held some clean garments, he saw it. "What the fuck?" He mused in surprise. On his shoulder was a swirling tattoo. He couldn't for the life of him remember getting it. As he looked at it, it lit up for a brief instant, glowing bright white. "Ah!" He yelped, falling on his ass. "What the hell!!?!?" Shaking his head, he wrote it off as an acid flashback, despite the fact he had never done acid. Throwing on some clothes, he grabbed his backpack, and scrambled downstairs.

Hopping into his custom El Camino, he hit the gas, and sped off to school. It was 7:55. He pulled into the student lot, sliding into a perfect parking spot that was miraculously still empty. Jude always seemed to have good luck. Walking slowly up the steps to the school, as the late bell rang, he was still deep in thought, a confused look on his face. He couldn't get the events of last night and this morning out of his head. "Am I going crazy?" He muttered to himself quietly.

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Re: Dreaming of Reality

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Megan suddenly awoke.She looked at her alarm clock.It was 4:15
"Ugh."Megan mumbled.She had had another one of those dreams again.
They started leaving scars and it was getting really annoying.
She had told everyone about what had happened,but no one believed her.
She sighed and rolled over and went back to sleep.
She awoke at 7:15 and ate breakfast,and took a shower.As she was showering she noticed a triangular mark on her shoulder.She gasped and almost screamed.It was glowing darkly.
She thought to herself
'What the hell is going on?!?'
She got dressed and started to walk to school,still puzzle by the mark on her shoulder.
"The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh"
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Re: Dreaming of Reality

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Roan woke up at 7:00 o'clock the pain still ebbing in the center of his chest where the mark still pulsed. Why did this thing appear? Slowly moving from his bed he groggily strode over to the shower. Twenty minutes later he reappeared and dressed in his normal wear, A T-shirt with an Iron Maiden logo on the front and blue jeans. Yawning he grabbed his backpack and headed downstairs. Ma and Pops left already? oh well. He shrugged taking a piece of bread and started to slowly chomp on it as he walked out and headed towards school.
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Re: Dreaming of Reality

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Jason groaned a bit as he chocked down the last bite of his meal and threw the bowl into the sink. He pulled on his backpack and left his house, the walk to school was only a five minute stroll so there was no need for him to rush. He kept looking into his shirt, to the mark that was left on him. He adjusted his backpack a bit before letting out a yawn, he decided to keep the thoughts in the back of his mind. Although several images decided to make themselves known in his mind, especially that of the dark cloaked figure. As he passed a shop he thought he saw something out of the corner of his eye, a large being, black, and shapeless. He looked towards the window to see if anyone was inside, or if anything that was inside could make that form. Nothing.

With a shrug, he continued on his way, but he could help but feel that something was following him, watching. He went up the stone steps just outside the school, and reached the front door just as the late bell rang out. "Of course" he said as he pulled open the door, the old door creaked as it opened, and as it shut. But after taking a few steps he didn't hear the door slam shut, instead he heard it creak open again. He looked back, but no one had entered the door, the door shut, and slammed to a close. "Ok" he said a she continued on his way, as he traveled to the end of the hallway, he heard the door slam shut again, but no sound of it opening. He looked back nervously, a bead of sweat ran down the side of his face. He held his breath for a moment and listened. Nothing, silence, without a word he turned and continued on his way, exiting out of the building. He decided to go to the nurse instead of class, he held his head for a moment, he had a bit of a fever. But the most heat was being generated on the left side of his body, close to where the symbol was.

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Re: Dreaming of Reality

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Megan was walking to school,and she kept looking at her mark.It hurt when she touched it,and it glowed at times.It was the strangest thing she had ever seen.When she got to school,she walked up the front steps and through the front door.She walked through the hallway and into her class.Right when she sat down in her seat,the bell rang.She sighed and took off her backpack.She wanted to tell people about her dreams but she knew they wouldn't believe her, so she just kept them to herself.

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Re: Dreaming of Reality

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((Where'd everyone that signed up go anyway? I was hoping by now most, if not all, have posted at least once =/ Meh, anyway))

Jason shut the door behind him as he entered the nurses office, "hello?" he asked as he looked around the room. Empty, not a soul in sight, he sighed, "of course" he said to himself as he sat down on the couch to wait. After a few moments he heard the clicking of a door falling back into place, "Hello?" he said again. No reply, he was getting nervous, he was hearing sounds again, what was going on with him today? He heard the sound of a door slam again, he looked through the doorway outside, but no one was there. Behind him he heard a door opening, the one he just came through, the door opened full way and stopped. He stood, back against a wall, staring at the door, waiting for someone to come through. No one did, instead the door, violently, slammed closed, at that point he was about ready to have a heart attack. He ran to the door, pulled it open, and ran outside, he didn't know where he was going, he just didn't want to be alone anymore.

He ran into a random classroom and slammed the door behind him, he looked out the small window on the door. There was no one outside, the teacher and the students turned and looked at him as he sat on the ground. He gasped for air, slumped against the door. He was soon sent to the principle's office for disrupting a random class.

He sat in the principle's office until the bell for lunch rang, he left the office in a bit of a jog, "I have to find everyone" he said as he went on. He ran to the usual spot where everyone gathered, where he usually told his stories.

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Re: Dreaming of Reality

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Connor awoke at 4:15 with another dream again. He knew by now he had a new scar somewhere so he went into the bathroom and looked for in in the mirror. No scars just an odd mark on his shoulder. It was an hour glass within a triangle and circle it started to glow a bright silver that hurt his eyes, but just slightly. He laid in bed looking through his window at the stars shine in the clear night as he drifted to sleep.

Waking up at 7:03 he checked his arm and the mark was still there. He grabbed a banana and a bottle of milk from the fridge. He flopped on the couch and watched T.V. then skated to school.
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Re: Dreaming of Reality

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Jude had slept through class until lunch. Several times the teachers had woken him, or yelled at him for sleeping, but they knew Jude well enough to know that he was going to sleep whether they like it or not, and eventually left him alone. Yawning as he walked out of his last period, Jude muttered, "I knew that stupid dream was gonna mess me up. I missed several seconds of sleep because of that." It seemed ridiculous that the few seconds of disruption would make Jude sleep all morning, and ridiculous it was. He always slept through school.

Grabbing a bottle of chocolate milk from the cafeteria, he tossed his money to the lunch lady in a rumpled pile, skipping in and out of the line to do so. Anyone else would have got smacked if they had somehow mustered up the courage to do that, but Jude just got laughs and pats on the back. A perk of charm and good looks. Winking at the lunch lady kept him off of her radar. With his purchase, Jude walked over to his usual hang, and flopped down, pulling his hood up over his eyes, and napping until the others arrived. He wondered if any of them would believe him about his dream.

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Re: Dreaming of Reality

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"Jude!" Jason shouted as he ran through the cafeteria, he jumped on the bench on the outside, over the table and slumped down on the bench on the other side. "Jude!" he shouted again, shoving him a bit, "Wake up, I had another one of those dreams". He pulled off his backpack, "Not only that but some freaky thing have been happening all day today. Not only that, the dream left me with another mark, except it's a bit different" he said as he pulled up his sleeve. He showed the strange marking that was on his shoulder.

"It was the freakiest one to date" he said, "I-i-i-it looked, it looked like the city, except there were no people, and only some weird shadow things crawling around. And there were screams, and fire, and this cloaked thing that grabbed my shoulder, and when I woke up I had this mark on my shoulder. And when I looked in the mirror it glowed, and there's been some freaky stuff going on here. I don't know what yet, but it's like something is following me, slamming doors to freak me out. And it's working! ever since I got here it's been freaking me out, I can't even be alone anymore without being paranoid." Jason stopped, he took in several deep breaths to try and calm himself down.

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Re: Dreaming of Reality

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Megan proceeded through the day different then usual today.She wasn't usually one to slack off in school,but today she kept thinking about her dream and the strange mark on her arm.The teacher asked her several times to pay attention,but she kept daydreaming.At lunch time, she walked into the cafeteria and saw Jude and Jason sitting on a bench outside of the cafeteria.She decided to join them,she wasn't hungry anyways.
"Hey guys."she said as she sat next to them."Whats new with you guys?Oh yeah check this out."
Megan pulled her sleeve up and showed them the mark on her shoulder.
"I woke up from one of those dreams last night and found this on my shoulder."
The mark started to glow a bit.

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