Maighdean_Writes
She has always believed that every mystery has an answer.
That's why she taught herself to lucid dream.
Night after night, she explored impossible places with complete control, convinced she understood the boundary between dreams and reality.
Until memories began appearing where they shouldn't.
A childhood she never lived.
A promise she never made.
A life that somehow misses her as much as she misses it.
By the sea, fragments of another existence drift into her mind like forgotten tides. Across another shore, someone else is remembering her.
They have the same face.
The same name.
The same certainty that they are the original.
And somewhere between sleep and waking, one question waits for them both:
What makes you think yours is reality?
The Certainty of Waking is a psychological mystery about memory, identity, and the fragile comfort of believing we know what's real.