Awa and the Dreamrealm by Isa Pearl Ritchie

Author:Isa Pearl Ritchie [Ritchie, Isa Pearl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780473495749
Publisher: Te Rā Aroha Press
Published: 2019-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

I practiced the breathing, slowly… counting to four as I breathed in, and then to six as I breathed out.

After a while I opened my eyes and looked around. Veila was sitting on a boulder, watching me, curiously.

“Breathing is boring!” I said.

“Exactly!” said Veila.

“What?”

“You need to bore your thinking-brain into going to sleep so that you can really be present,” she replied. “and you also need to make sure you are in the dark.”

“What?” I said. “Do you mean I need to sleep with the light off?”

“Of course,” Veila said. “You need to spend time in the dark – in the void. That is where all new things come from.”

“What are you talking about?” I said, crossing my arms.

“The charm will work better in the dark,” Veila said. “So if you want to come back here, you better follow my instructions.”

“Okay, whatever,” I said. It didn’t really make sense, but it was worth a try to get back to this amazing place.

I lay in the soft grass, surrounded by bright orange and blue wildflowers that smelled like caramel and looked up at the purple, swirling sky.

I sighed, it felt so good just to be there, after the past few days of stress.

“It’s so beautiful here,” I said. “I think… right now, this is the best part of my life.”

“Really?” Veila sounded curious.

“Everything else is kind of a mess,” I said. “But it sounds pretty sad, doesn’t it, that my dreams are better than my real life?”

“You still keep thinking they aren’t real life?” Veila asked.

“This can’t be real,” I said. “It’s too good… it’s impossible.”

I woke up to the sound of rain. I lay in bed wondering…did saying it was impossible take me out of the dream?

Do I have to believe in it, for it to be real… or would that just make me insane?

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