In Your Dreams

In Your Dreams

“Goodnight, Lili, sweetie.” Lilietta’s mother bent down, brushed Lilietta’s red hair out of her face, and kissed her forehead.

“Night, mom.” Lilietta smiled. She burrowed under her covers as her mother turned out the light. She knew that tonight was going to be exciting. Last night she had discovered a system of caves underneath the house. She wondered what lay down there.

Her mother left.

Lilietta tossed and turned, but sleep eluded her. She needed to calm down. She fluffed her pillow, and tried counting sheep. It didn’t work. Finally, she lay on her side and gazed at the familiar picture opposite the room. Even in the dark, she could make out the shapes of the animals. There were the two weasels... There were the two pandas... Were those the polar bears way back there......? A black wave of sleep crashed over her, and she knew no more.

Lilietta drifted down the hallway. It was old and ragged, and completely unfamiliar, but she knew it as well as she knew her own home. She visited there every night. Lilietta was a Dreamwalker.

A Dreamwalker is a person who, in their sleep, is transported through their mind to a parallel dimension. Their body is left behind where they come from. Dreamwalkers are very rare. There is one Dreamwalker in every universe, so if you know one, or are one, think of yourself as one in at least a billion people.

Lilietta’s alternate dimension was a very green world; the place she was transported to was simply a house on a planet, and the rest of the planet was basically jungle and forest, with a few streams and rivers and plains, and other scenic spots like waterfalls. The house was a simple two-story building, that looked like it had been there since the beginning of time. Perhaps it had. Who knows?

Lilietta glanced around. It was the same as always. She smiled and flowed down the stairs. She stopped when she reached the door that looked like it had been scratched out of the wall.