(Quetip and Cheetoe walks home)
Quetip (trembling his head with one hand in his pocket): Yo, that was some weird ass shit Mr. Perry was talkin bout today.
Cheetoe: Yeah that's some crazy ass shit man.
Quetip: White people be experiencing some weird ass shit yo.
Cheetoe: Yeah, that's why a lot of they asses is crazy.
Quetip: Yeah, I can't imagine any nigga goin through that shit yo.
Cheetoe: I'm quite sure it's a lot of niggas that be going through sleep paralysis an shit, but the shit he was sayin, seeing the night stalker an shit, I don't think no niggas be seeing that I think that's just they white asses be seeing them.
Quetip: On the real yo, white people be telling us some weird ass shit yo.
Cheetoe: Yeah shid...
Quetip (grins): That's why I said his ass needs some pussy in his life yo.
Cheetoe: Haha, it's somethin wrong with you man.
Quetip: He lived alone with his dog an shit, he needs some pussy for breakfast and dinner.
Cheetoe (gives Quetip a hand dab): Hahaha, you crazy man, but I see you ight.
Quetip: Ight bro.
The Next Day
Mr. Perry: Hi class, how is everyone doing?
Class: Good.
Mr. Perry: Good, okay, well today we are discussing lucid dreaming, what is lucid dreaming?
Shonte: That's when the dreamer knows they are dreaming.
Mr. Perry: Yes, and that dreamer can control the events of that dream, you have to sleep with a mental set to have a lucid dream, as it mentions in your book, that the first step is to increase your awareness of dreams. Lucid dreaming is all about keeping your focus while you are falling asleep. In dream consciousness, it is infinitely longer than a waking second. For instance, when you wake up, it is 10:12, and then you go back to sleep, and have long intense dreams or nightmares that seems to last for hours to the dreamer. When you awakened from the dream, the clock hits 10:13.
Shonte: Awe wow, interesting.
Mr. Perry: Yeah, the second step is to look at your dreams for signs of things that happen in your dreams, that could tell you that you are dreaming, some things that occur in dreams do not happen in waking reality or unusual, that could tell you that you are dreaming. Then, you become lucid in the dream. In a lucid dream state, you are consciously controlling your dreams. You are able to
discover things beyond your capacity to apprehend in your waking state. In the most important thing is to just commit to trying having a lucid dream. Those are the main steps of lucid dreaming, has anyone recalled having a lucid dream where you were aware of the dream?
Shonte (trembles her head): Naw, I don't think I had any of them types of dreams before.
Jesus (quivers his head): Me neither.
Mr. Perry: Anyone?
Class: No.
Mr. Perry (crosses his arms standing by his desk): Well let me tell you my lucid dream I had as a child. When I was in high school I created a lucid dream.
Quetip: How can you create a lucid dream?
Mr. Perry: Well, what I did, well let me tell you this. I was not a typical child that had an ordinary hobby. Some kids would come home during their breaks and just watch TV or play games, sports, draw etc... Those would be their hobbies. My hobby was that I would come home and lay down every day. My mother thought I was taking naps most of the time.
Class (laughing):
Mr. Perry: I never told her, hey mom imma go lay down and create a lucid dream.
Class (laughing):
Mr. Perry: She would think I'm losing it and she did not know what that was, so I would lay down on my back, I would start to close my eyes and I would create an image where I want my dream to take place, so I would imagine my grandmother's house because that would be the place where I would always have dreams when I used to spend nights there when I finally was unconscious, that is when I started dreaming, even though I was unconscious, I was still aware of my mental set of dreams, the dream occurred at my grandmother's house, it was weird, there were these two men standing in my grandmother's kitchen, I remember all my dreams in details, the men were white and slim and dressed in all black, they looked like burglars, they stared at me and they were trying to convince me to dig a hole in my grandmother's backyard, I was frightened, so I went outside and dug the hole. The hole they told me to dig, was a deep hole, when I reached the bottom, I realized there was a girl in the whole scared to death and wanted help, I was scared and I did not want to go any further digging, the two men kept telling me to keep digging unless they would kill me, now this was ironic, I kept digging and as I kept digging, I felt a gun pointed at the back of my head and they killed me, and I woke up quick, and I noticed that I was sweating all over.
Jesus: Damn, that is some weird scary shit you had.
Mr. Perry: Yes it was, well okay guys, it is your lunch break, when you get back there will be a test on chapter 4.
Quetip (stands up and frowns and leans his head to the side): A test again, man?
Mr. Perry: yeah, I am not like the other teachers, I will be surprising you guys with tests, I told you that.
Shonte: Boy you better start studying.
Quetip (frowning): Shut yo ass up.
Mr. Perry: Hey, that is no way to talk to talk to a lady.
Quetip: Why you never let us know about the test ahead of time?
Mr. Perry: Go to lunch Quetip, I will explain when you get back.
Quetip: Man, ight, shit.
YOU ARE READING
Believe in Curious Dreamers
HorrorMr. Perry takes his students on a dream journey that turns horrifying that his students will never forget.
