I Dreamt I Went To Hell

4

Lilian sat across Kim as she told her dream.
"I went to bed late last night. Around maybe 11pm. Before I slept, I was listening to Nicki's anaconda. I got sleepy and turned off my iPod. Then I dreamt.
I saw myself lying on an hospital bed, surrounded by people. I saw you, mum, dad and some other people crying. Before I knew it, I drifted away from the room, through the walls. I tried calling out to you but you couldn't hear me. I drifted through a dark tunnel for some time before I came to a stop. I looked around but nothing seemed familiar. While I was wondering on what to do, a figure clad in an immaculate white clothe approached me.
"Who are you?" I asked him.
"An angel." His voice was nothing like I've heard before.
"Where am I?" I asked.
"Welcome to the border between earth and the after life. This is where the fate of man is decided."
I could feel myself shivering. What was he saying? Am I dead? What border?
As if he knew what was going through my mind, he said, "You're dead."
I screamed. How could I die? I'm barely eighteen? How could I?
Again, he said, "Death is no respecter of person. Whether you're young or old, you're still going to die someday."
"Someday, yeah! But why now? I still have things to do with my life. No!" I cried.
"Kimberly, it's time to know your fate," he said.
"What fate?" I asked.
He paused momentarily. "Where you spend eternity, whether heaven or hell."
"Hell? Heaven? Are those places real? I thought they were fabricated by some overly religious persons. How can they be real?" I cried.
"They are real. It's time to know where you belong."
"Oh! There's no point trying to know. Isn't hell the place where they said all bad people go to? I'm bad. That's where I belong." I said
"We still have to know. Follow me."
We walked on quietly for a while until we reached a gate. The gate was a gigantic one. In front of the gate, a being with wings stood. He had a table in front of him and on the table sat two big books.
"Welcome. Kimberly O'Conner."
I stood there surprised. How come he knew my name?
I watched as he pored through the pages of the first book. After a while he dropped it. He picked up the second one and pored through the pages. He stopped at a page and looked up.
"Your name isn't found in the book of life. You never gave Jesus a chance. Your final destination is hell."
"No!" I screamed. Memories of how you preached to me, pleaded with me to accept Jesus, began to play in my head.
Suddenly, I felt hot. It was like a force was pulling me. I kept on being pulled while I wrestled against it. Then I came off a cliff into fire! Lily, hell is so real. I know what I had was just a dream but it was so real. The fire enveloped me. I was burning all over. The pain I felt was undescribable. I kept on wailing and crying. I could hear screams and shouts around me. People were in pains. Some were asking for mercy, pleading for another chance. Some were blaspheming God, calling him cruel and all sorts of names. I kept on screaming as the pain got unbearable. Behind me, I saw the most gross and ugly looking creatures I've ever seen. They were monsters. They were deformed, dour-looking with abnormal teeth, eyes, noses. Some had ugly projections from their body. They were torturing people. I scrambled up as one began to approach me, swirling an object looking like a spear. As he hurled the spear at me, I woke up."

"Hmm... That's .. I don't even know how to put it. It's really scary." Lilian said after Kim finished her story.
"People need to know that there's a heaven and there's a hell. Lots of people are going to hell everyday because they refused to accept Jesus. That was my fate too. If not that the lord had mercy on me and showed me this dream, I would've have ended in hell as well," Kim said.
"People should repent. Hell is realer than they think," Lilian remarked.
"I'm going with you to church on Sunday. I need to let people know about my dream. They mustn't end up in hell. It's a terrible place." Kim said.
Lilian couldn't help but thank God for the change in Kimberly's heart.