Daydream Believer

lxxx. imaginary worlds and disappearing problems

lxxx. imaginary worlds and disappearing problems

Mom always said I was too old to play with stuffed animals. She had been saying that since I was in elementary school, but now I was starting to agree with her. Sometimes Bronto was the only thing that could comfort me though. Tonight was one of those nights.

I was curled up in bed, but I couldn't sleep. I was thinking about too many things. Life had just gotten so complicated lately. I tried counting sheep and counting stars and counting a lot of other pointless things, but nothing worked. I just couldn't fall asleep.

So I thought. I thought about an imaginary place. I was too tired to think of a real name, so I called it McKenna Land. In McKenna Land, the landscape wasn't boring like the one that I saw whenever I looked out the window. My world was covered in lush jungles and clear, bright seas. Dinosaurs like Bronto still roamed the earth. I was there, and so was Dad and Shonali and Brooklyn and Noah. Well, maybe not Brooklyn and Noah. They were pretty annoying. Aaron and Justin would live next door to us.

Best of all, everyone had superpowers in McKenna Land. I was able to turn invisible, so if I wanted to be alone, I could. I stared up at the ceiling and wished that I could go there, but I knew it was only a construct of my imagination.

I felt empty all of a sudden. There were so many things I wanted that were just out of my reach. I continued staring at the ceiling until I got so tired that I collapsed into a deep sleep.