Soulmates - The Last Line

The Brother

"Okay, well before we get to it, I'd like to discuss a couple of other things with you, for example, what made you come here?" the woman fixed her glasses mindlessly trying to maintain eye contact. Her chest was moving fast probably due to the boiling temperatures outside the building. This is the downside of having an AC – it keeps you nice and cool until you have to step outside for a second. After you breathe in the hell environment and try to go back inside it makes you feel ten thousand times worse for going out in the first place.

"I started having these nightmares. I guess you could call them that" Yongsun said and wiped her palms on her jeans which at this point felt glued to her thighs. "At first, they were just..bad dreams. The first one I had a few years ago. I think it might have been the stress, or something that I watched, maybe, I was into that back then, so maybe I provoked it myself (?) I don't know." The woman kept nodding and writing something down on her laptop. "I don't really remember the first nightmare. But I know I woke up feeling stressed for some reason; I was ... in Egypt ... I don't know. I couldn't shake this feeling of betrayal and felt unbelievably sad afterwards. I just couldn't remember why."

"That's completely normal. We don't remember half of the dreams we have. The brain usually erases that information upon waking up. This is why we encourage people to write dream diaries right after waking up, to "remember "their dreams."

"Yeah, I don't think I would have tried to find the meaning even if I did remember. That week was...very hard on me, on a personal level. I... I lost someone I love-" She shook her head as if trying to avoid the memories.

"You don't have to talk about that if it bothers you. We will only talk about things you're ready to share." The woman said with a faint smile and moved her chair backward. "So, what made you think they're not just bad dreams?"

"My friends and I decided to google things that I remembered from one of the recent dreams and we actually...found information online. Everything that I remembered... It seemed like...it actually might have happened." She moved from the chair to her bag. "It sounds crazy but the names the description they all... fit" She pulled the printed article and gave it to the woman.

"Fascinating, "she said after reading the first couple of paragraphs.

"I'm still having trouble believing this isn't some kind of a cruel joke- "

"I'd say we know close to nothing of the human brain, Miss Kim. We have no idea where dreams come from. Why are we experiencing certain things, why are there people dreaming about things which eventually happen afterwards? Do we really meet other people or is everyone we see just part of our imagination? There are thousands of cases of people remembering past lives. Even if there's no scientific explanation for it. I started doing this in the first place because the human brain is...an amazing phenomenon. And I wanted to know more. To explore areas that have not been explored before. If this is something that you'd like to do, I'd take you there "

"I think I have to. I've probably had two or three of these dreams now. They feel too real, the feelings I have, the emotions, the situations. They feel so...familiar, yet so distant. I can't describe it, but I know I have to figure out why it all started, and maybe I will, if I ...do this one more time- because I've noticed a pattern. In all of my dreams, there are two people involved, me and a man, or a woman. I always die and I never get to see what happens afterwards. And the death is...painful but not in a physical way. You just feel it...here" Yongsun said and touched her chest. "In your soul, I guess."

"There is always another person involved?"

"Yes. I see their faces, they're all different but...there's something about the way they...move, about their eyes. I- "