Woken

By Michael Alexander

For some, life can seem to be a dream at times, never real.

For others, that is all it really is.

Here's the short story of a man who has lived a full life, has done well with himself, but now seems to have the inescapable sensation that something seems terribly wrong. Is he really losing his sanity?

Or is it something else altogether?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Alexander
• Release date: Aug 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476229898

Michael Alexander

Michael currently resides in Sturbridge, MA but is a full-time employee of a cruise ship line so his time is spent sailing around the world. Always one to write random stories when he was younger, Michael has focused his love for writing into his first published book: The Vessel. Currently, he is working on the sequel.

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WOKEN

a short story

by Michael Alexander

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WOKEN

For years I could never remember having dreams.

Or a dream for that matter.

To be honest, I couldn’t even tell you when they started. All I could tell you is that I remember suddenly having them.

I’ve never really been involved with other people’s dreams. It's not something that comes up in casual conversation, nor is it usual dinner conversation. And when I get to thinking about dreams, and life and how this or that ended up happening when it happened, I really don’t recall much of my life. Seems most of it is just a blur.

The morning I woke up from another night of extremely deep sleep -- as far as I can recall, I have only slept deeply -- and realized I had a dream, I didn’t know what to make of it. But I knew somehow, I probably shouldn’t been so surprised about it.

But I was.

It was an odd dream. I couldn’t see anything, really couldn’t feel anything (I didn’t have enough experience on dreams to know if this was normal or not) but I could hear things. Or one thing. A beep.

Beep…beep…beep…beep

Same beep-sound, repeating over and over. It didn’t last long, and suddenly I was awake in the morning. I shook my head, thought about it for a minute, and pushed it aside. That helped in the meantime.

I didn’t dream the next night, or the next, or the next after that. But I did have it again. I couldn’t tell, but it seemed the same length.

Beep…beep…beep…beep.

Always the