Road to Night Café

When psychiatrist Dr. Lucian Harlow begins treating patients who share the same recurring dream - a glowing café where no one speaks and time stands still - he's forced to confront his own forgotten past.
He's seen that place before.
He just doesn't remember when.

Full Synopsis:

After a near-fatal childhood accident, Lucian Harlow grew up chasing logic and reason - building a career to silence the chaos of his early visions. But when a series of patients begin describing an identical dream - a café bathed in flickering crimson light, filled with unmoving figures - Lucian's scientific certainty begins to crack.
As he unravels the link between his patients, their dreams, and his own forgotten trauma, he discovers traces of a hidden group of dark smiths - people capable of entering and manipulating the dreams of others. Each session pulls him deeper into their world, and closer to the truth buried in his own mind.

Somewhere beyond sleep, the Night Café waits - a place for the lost, the guilty, and the damned. And the road back there has already begun.

Author's Note / Credit:

Inspired by the haunting brilliance of Vincent van Gogh's "The Night Café," this story explores the beauty and terror of the mind - where dreams blur into memory, and sanity is only a matter of perspective.
A psychological descent through guilt, art, and consciousness - for readers who love Inception, Shutter Island, and The OA.