Short Stories

Dreamcatcher

Read the story and try to guess what all the dreams try to symbolize. And then go and scan the picture I have above so you can see what I meant for the symbolisms to mean. How close can you get?

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"Hang in there honey!" I heard my mothers fading voice talking at me as I was being carried in an emergency bed. My vision was darkening and everything looked blurry. A sudden clangor took place in my ear and then it went completely dark.

I eyed around. The scene was post-apocalyptic looking. The sky looked grey and everything on earth was the same color. A dark brown that was being the background to the flames that peaked through.

Screams echoed in my ear yet no one was there. I could feel the heat coming from the fire, scattered around this city.

"Hey, what are you doing?" A similar voice came behind me. It was casual, like nothing around us was even here. I turned around panting, shocked from everything. It was my best friend. Unlike me, she was wearing a white flowy dress, her long blond hair wavy from the wind and her skin was sparkling. It was opposite from everything around us.

Although I am very happy I'm seeing her, the only detail is, she has been dead for 3 years now.

"Wh-what do you mean?" I had to scream for my voice to reach her. The crackling from the fire, the screams and the car honks was covering every sound up.

"I mean what are you doing? How is it going with your boyfriend?" I realized how she did not need to scream like I did. Her voice was soothing and calm. I looked confused at her.

"Umm not as good as i'd like it to be but wh-what a-re you doing here?" I asked her, rubbing my forehead.

"I'm here to warn you!" Her voice turned dark and deep. She looked at me deep into my eyes. In a split second I found myself in a forest.

Everything was peaceful and fresh. The trees were tall and the deep green leaves were covering the bright blue sky and the shining sun.

When I turned to my side I saw a mirror. In the mirror I saw a deer. A very beautiful young deer. Innocent, pure. I looked back at myself. I was a deer. I am a deer.

"Then I said "don't wear that if you don't want me to do it again sweetheart!"" Loud laughters of two men radiated through the forest. I could hear them laugh and walk but none of these voices were coming from a certain place. They were everywhere.

"Hey look over there!" One of the men said. Then a sudden shatter happened in the mirror and through it the other man came out with a bow and arrow. The man was my boyfriend. The one I had troubles with.

Before I could even process all this he shot me in the head while I saw it in a small piece of mirror that was left.

"5 6 7 8..." I opened my eyes to me in a ballet class. I was holding the handle of a barre and was doing balance and stretching exercises like a plié. It felt like I did not have control over my body mainly because I did not know ballet. Though judging from all the stretches and splits and french named movements I was doing it felt right.

Many other professional looking people around me and I were doing all these actions in a rhythmic and smooth instrumental music.

"5 6 7 8..." I opened my arm to the right, away from my body while looking in the same direction. When I slowly took my arm back in front of me no one was in the room anymore. The music was still playing but the room was empty. It was like they all disappeared or they were never here in the first place.

Looking around confused, I heard a cry of a baby. Now when I looked back to the right side I was in a dark room surrounded by nothingness. In front of me there was a baby crib and ballet shoes tied to it. I slowly started to walk towards it. I had an immensely growth of anxiety that was unexplainable. Before I could even reach the crib the room flipped upside down.

I opened my eyes widely with panic to get a deep breath. I saw the nurse pressing on my chest and my father holding my legs up. The clinging noise in my ear started to fade away. My eyes were still very wide open and I could hear my very fast pounding heartbeat from the machine that was attached to me. The darkness I felt before I fainted was now slowly going away. As much as the dreams I had felt like eternity, it was just about ten seconds.

My mother was trying to calm me down but I knew that she was even more scared than I was. Her hands were shaking and her eyes were filled with worry.

I had to force the nurse to let me get up so I could throw up. The burning sensation covered the inside of my throat. As I emptied my stomach in the bag they handed me I realized what I had to do. I was in a toxic relationship that I was too scared to leave. Too scared that I would be alone and too scared that he would feel alone. But now I know what to do.