My dream begins with me waking in a vacant waiting room of a hospital, sitting laid back in a chair. I didn’t know my purpose for being there or what I had come to wait for, but the place had a looming dread. 222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgQSNYd9SQ
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Except for the faint humming of the excruciating bright ceiling lights, the hospital was quiet. The place also had a distinct sense of uncleanliness, with visible grime; it felt and looked filthy. I felt out of place, almost unwelcome, probably a sign I shouldn’t have been there, and yet, I continued sitting patiently, waiting for something.
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Then, I heard wailing, a woman’s pained lament echoing throughout the empty halls. What frightened me was the voice sounded familiar, as if I knew the person crying. I got up from my seat and, despite the disturbing wails, calmly walked through the halls of the hospital.
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I followed the screams; with each step and turn, her shrieks grew louder. Why I decided to search for this person, I do not know, but I wish I hadn’t.
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Amidst rows of closed doors, one door remained open. Unfortunately, the one room the woman was in.
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I didn’t know what to expect; what horrors waited for me within that room that could cause such miserable howls from that woman? Well, when I walked over to investigate, I got my dreaded answer.
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The room was dark, the center illuminated by a single flickering round light dangling from the ceiling. And what the light exposed made me run cold with fear.
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In the middle of the room, almost as if a display, was a stretcher with a woman lying down who looked uncannily similar to my mother, screaming bloody murder. Tears ran down her cheeks, her face red and puffy, as she stared down at her abdomen.
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Her abdomen had been ripped open; blood and fragments of flesh had slipped off the sides of the stretcher and onto the floor. They’d disemboweled her; I could see her intestines hanging outside her body, and, although obscured, the doctor was still hacking into something. It reeked terribly of blood; the screams and sounds of organs squelching made me sick to my stomach.
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I never wanted to get out of a situation so badly before, but I just stood there, watching, unable to do anything. And just as my dream abruptly began, it ended, leaving me nothing but frightened when I awoke in my bed.
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I don’t dream frequently, but it’s experiences like these that I don’t miss dreaming.
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