Prompted Shorties

Somnia

Prompt: At the stroke of midnight, you (or a character) awaken suddenly from a strange, vivid dream. You remember that the dream involved an unusual object in a distinctive place, but you don't know what it means.

Decide on the object and the setting, then use a dream dictionary (see options below) to look at common meanings behind those symbols. Alternatively, give the symbols your own significance. Use the meanings you find to craft a scene.

Story:

I had a dream, him and I were floating in mid air, carelessly zooming across dozens and dozens of clouds as the rays of the sun gently touched our skins, I look at you as we fly away, away to nowhere and anywhere. The laws of physics did not matter as we fly together with planes, people looking at us as if we're freaks, or heroes, I couldn't be bothered which one they think for as long as I have you by my side, I am eternally happy.

You gave me a smile, a carefree genuine gesture that makes my heart warm up as we pass oceans, valleys and mountains, I felt we could do anything, I felt... free. We flew through monuments, got above stormy seas, explored Mt. Everest, even had a race with some jets, we were having so much fun, then I had to look down and realized that I was terribly afraid of heights, I fell, I thought that this was it. My heart was breaking as the wind kept crashing on my body while I just fall. Fall to my mere demise, the ground, but as I hit the ground, I fell off of my bed.

It was just a dream. I cried. Dreams are nothing but a mere just. Dreams remind me that there are just some things that are impossible to have.

I thought: there was only one impossible thing in my dream that I could never have. It's not flying, that's what planes are for. It's not touching the clouds and falling off of the sky, you have skydiving for that. And it's definitely not the places that I've visited because they're all real and still standing up to this day.

The impossible thing was him, the love of my life, the source of my happiness, the ender of my sorrows, the one that I could never have. No matter how hard I try, no matter how hard I wish it, no matter how much I want it, no matter how many times I dream of him, it will only be just that. A dream.

Nothing but a mere concoction of my consciousness and my heart's desires whenever I go to sleep. Dreams are never enough.

I want to know how it feels in real life, the joy, the happiness that he can give me. His touch, his voice, his warmth, I want to feel it. His strengths and weaknesses I want to know it.

His... Name.

I want to know his name. I don't want him to be a nameless face forever. But, even if I try to pull myself to him, even just inches from him, the universe always finds a way to keep us miles apart.

But I could never let it go, even if it's just in my dreams. Because it's the only thing I have and probably the only thing that will be.