Imaginary Insanity

Chapter 1 How is this Possible?

"Tell me, what do you see in your dreams?" A calming female voice asked as darkness surrounded a woman.

The scene then changes and the woman is standing outside of a small, but lovely house. Standing in front of it are two adults, and four other children, they all have warm smiles on their faces and they're trying to welcome the woman inside the house.

"I see my old house, my parents, and my other four siblings. However things soon change, I see my house and my family are all still inside, even if my siblings had escaped I still see them in the house. And their BURNING! I can't do anything! I'm STUCK! I can't MOVE MY FEET! AGH!" The woman screams as her vision changes and now the family are inside the house.

They are at a window banging on the glass and screaming in agony as the fire slowly licks away their flesh. The woman now looked like a five year old child, clutching onto two unicorn plushies. The first one was purple and the second one was pink, she just held onto them tightly as she watched her family burn up as the fire consumed them.

"Relax, Ivery, now I want you to drift to a good memory, what do you remember from your childhood where you were the happiest?" The calming voice asked.

The scene the woman was in changed again, now she was in the sky in a cloud that was changing colors. She was sitting at a pretty table that was a gigantic flower, drinking some milk with honey given to her by bee fairies.

Sitting across from her was a woman with long hair tied up into two hair cones with multi colored ribbons. She was wearing a puffy dress where the sleeves were purple and she had arm cuffs that went from her biceps to her wrists. The cuffs were decorated with swirls that were pink and red, her dress top had on both the front and back a purple and red heart while the rest was white. The skirt itself had rainbow stripes going all the way down the top and bottom of the skirt. She had long stockings on her legs that were sapphire blue and peridot green while she had midnight black heel shoes.

"I'm in my imagination land, I called it the Fascination world, where anything and everything could happen. I escaped to this place with my imaginary friend, I called her Alora and we were incapable." The woman explained.

"I see, why did you create this place?" The voice asked.

"I made it as an escape from my reality, the reality where my parents died, and I was sent to a psychiatric facility to heal my mental health." The woman explained.

"What do you remember of the Facility? What memories do you have of the place?" The voice asked again.

The scene once again changed to a room with plain white walls and many hospital beds. Some beds were accompanied by children who were suffering with mental illnesses and trauma. A nurse then came in with a clipboard in her hand, the nurse did not have any visible features, they were just a dark cloud of smoke.

"Pardon me Miss Waver, but it's time for your exposure therapy." The nurse said.

The woman then got up from the bed she was sitting on and went with the nurse, she was then gently taken by the hand and led out of the room.

"I remember the nurses, the children I shared a room with who also had mental problems. And my therapy, they showed me pictures and videos of fire, then they showed me real fier to help me get better." The woman explained.

"Alright, I believe that's enough for today, Ivery. Now I'll count to three and you'll wake up." The voice said.

Ivery waited and listened as her surroundings were once aging filled with darkness.

"One... two...Three... time to wake up." The voice said and Ivery did indeed wake.

When her eyes opened she saw she was laying down on a bed, the ceiling having angles painted on it as a way to calm those who come in here.