Dream Wandering • Yunsang

Our Reality

Yunho sat up in his bed, gasping for air and clutching at his chest. The sunlight through his curtains burned his eyes and the sound of his alarm on his bedside table shattered through his ears.

Yunho quickly stopped the alarm and coughed as a vile smell of smoke, likely from his alcoholic smoker of a neighbour, crept up his nose. Yunho sighed, he should have closed his window last night.

Yunho shut his eyes trying to remember Yeosang's honey voice in his mind, instead though, all he could hear was the tooting of horns, screeching of cars, a hum of chatter and the occasional angry shout from a random civilian making his morning commute from the city below his apartment.

Frustrated, Yunho kicked his blankets down the end of his bed, welcoming the cool air to attack his burning body, before pulling his legs to his chest and burying his head in his hands.

He tried to remember the beautiful world from his dreamscape in the blackness behind his eyes. Summoning the fading serenity from the depths of his mind.

And yes, because that is where he had just been, in a dream.

Yeosang's dreamworld to be precise, because Yeosang doesn't exist in his life, in fact in reality they've never even met, Yunho had only ever seen Yeosang in his dreams.

Yeosang is Yunho's soulmate and they have been meeting in a place Yeosang call's his home, and that Yunho used to call a forest, but is actually colloquially just a garden, ever since the 15th of June, the night of Yeosang's 16th birthday.

The garden exists due to something special, something cosmic and almost unexplainable. It is a place of Yeosang's own creation, and they never meet anywhere else but there.

On the day of your 16th birthday, on the very minute that you are born exactly 16 years ago, individuals are bestowed with a soulmate ability.

Yunho has the common ability to heal. Allowing him to mend whats broken, both physically and mentally.

Healing can be used on not just your soulmate but also on anyone you come into contact with if you so will your healing abilities onto them through contact of the skin.

Its why a lot of healers, such as Yunho, become doctors and nurses, because they are bestowed with this ability to help others. That being said, the effectiveness of the healing ability on someone who is not your soulmate is a lot smaller.

For example, say your soulmate fell off their bike, they scraped their skin in the fall and broke their ankle. A soulmate could knit the bone back together and mend all the scrapes, someone not your soulmate however could simply stop the bleeding of the scrapes, maybe heal a couple of the smaller scratches and lesson the pain of the broken bone, they couldn't fix it completely though.

Yeosang's soulmate ability, which is a lot more rare and uncommon, is Dream Wandering.

Dream wandering allows Yeosang to connect Yunho's unconscious mind to his own while Yunho sleeps, creating a subconscious space, a dreamworld, to which has no physical ties to the outside world other than Yeosang himself.

According to other soulmates who have the dream wandering ability Yeosang can be awake or asleep to create the subconscious space, but Yunho must always be asleep for him to enter it.

Generally dreamscapes resemble a place or places from the soulmate with the abilities outside environment, it's a bit like a mirror image, a reflection of a place that's real.

They can imagine places as big as a city or as small as a lounge room, as long as the place is somewhere they've been they can recreate it within their mind for their soulmate to enter.

Dream Wandering is one of the few soulmate abilities that can only be used with your soulmate and no one else, it comes under the same strand as Telekinesis whereby soulmates can communicate via the mind, and Body Etching whereby anything you write on the surface of your skin will appear on your soulmates.

Within the soulmate pair there will always be one soulmate who has a defined way of finding the other. For example say one of the two has the healing ability and the other has the ability of telekinesis, well then its the ability of telekinesis that will bring these two soulmates together since they can communicate in their mind as to where they are.

Hypothetically when it comes to Yeosang and Yunho, it should have been Yeosang's ability that brought them together, unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances that wasn't the case, and hence Yunho has only ever been able to find Yeosang in his dreams.

The whole process of Dream Wandering is not meant to be exhausting for either soulmates involved. Although your conscious is awake in the dreamscape, your body is well resting in the real world and you are unlikely to wake up during the night if you are occupied in this space, ensuring a full nights rest.

In all honesty Dream Wandering should be good for your health as it ensures you are not waking every couple of hours, however its a little different in Yunho's case.

As nights pass, it's harder and harder for Yunho to leave the dreamworld, its not that he can't, it's more that he just doesn't want to.

For him the garden is his home too, his happiness, its where Yeosang is and only ever is.

Maybe it would be different if he could see Yeosang outside of his dreams. But for Yunho knowing that he can only see Yeosang when he's asleep means that waking up and leaving him behind is a lot harder.

The longer Yunho holds on while there, longing to stay even though his body is trying to pull him back and wake him up, the more difficult it is when he finally does wake up.

Yunho is left gasping, feeling empty, his heart rate always sky rocketing, his body often almost burning. The way Yunho feels when he wakes up from his dream's with Yeosang have a similar feeling to that one might feel after they've ran a marathon.

Yunho always wondered what sort of toll it took on Yeosang's body.

Despite the pain of waking up, and knowing that Yeosang too is likely in pain, Yunho keeps coming back, allowing Yeosang to pull his unconscious mind to him like an attracting magnet.

Yunho love's him with all his heart, and although it hurts, Yunho would never give it up for even a second.

Although Yunho and Yeosang are close now they weren't always that way. In fact, Yunho was actually rather scared and unaware of the space and the boy he now loves the first couple of times he entered Yeosang's dreamworld.

Yunho had heard of hyper real dreams before and he'd also heard of soulmates possessing the ability to connect through dreams through his mandatory soulmate studies at school, but he never suspected that his soulmate would possess the ability since Dream Wandering isn't exactly common.

A/n Little bit of an explanation chapter, I hope it all makes sense!!

Next chapter is a journey to the past :) hehe

Lorri xx