Dream Maze

By David Detiege

What would you do if you found yourself trapped in a maze of dreams and no matter how hard you tried it seemed like you couldn’t wake up? That’s what happened to Russell Gray one dark and cold rainy night and now his world is closing in on him. He’s trying to escape from this crazy nightmare and find his way back to reality. “Somebody, please wake me up!”
Russell is about to take a journey that he didn’t plan on and he doesn’t want to be there, but what can he do about it? Let’s take this journey with him deep inside his mind and see where it leads us.
Is it real life, schizophrenia, or is it just a dream?

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Detiege
• Release date: Apr 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311411952

David Detiege

Author David L Detiege is a practicing Realtor in San Diego, California - which is in the middle of everything he loves - the mountains, the beaches, and the desert, where he spends time camping with family and friends. Some of David's hobbies include playing guitar, painting, hiking, and playing all kinds of games especially chess.

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DREAM MAZE

By

David L. Detiege

Smashwords Edition

Copyright © 2014 by David L. Detiege

All Rights Reserved.

The characters and incidents portrayed and names used herein are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely coincidental and unintentional.

A note from the author

I was seven years old the first time I wanted to write a book. Although many stories ran through my mind during my life, I just never wrote them down on paper. The stories remained in my mind throughout my life and never faded away. The strange part that I found out while writing this book; is as soon as I wrote down the words as they came to me, the thoughts finally left my head.

I was working for the Department of Homeland Security at the time when I injured my lower back; this was the most physically painful time of my life. For the first few weeks after the injury, I would wake up in the morning after a sleepless night, and I didn’t want to move for fear of the pain that I knew was coming next. It was like someone had a knife at my back and every time I moved they would stick it in and wiggle it around my nerves. Great pain was felt as I moved over on my side and to sit up on my bed. I sat there for a couple moments and then I would stand up hunched over and waited a few more seconds before the greatest part of the pain began. Between being hunched over and standing up straight, I felt like yelling as loud as I could, and just about passed out at the same time.

In the middle of this horrific pain, all I could think about was that I couldn’t do this any more, it was just too much to bear. I just wanted to leave my body and go into a new one. I told my doctor, Do the surgery now or kill me.

I was sitting at my desk one day, thinking about how I was trapped in my body and could not escape from the pain, when I thought about a person who was trapped in his dreams and was looking to find a way out. I kept seeing him over and over again in different situations and I started to write the thoughts down and decided to write a book. So you see, this book was written out of my own pain.

Some of the dreams and stories in this book are actually real, dreams that either I have had or someone told me about their own dreams. Some stories that someone may have told me about themselves that happened to them, even though some of the stories were hard to believe, I thought I would add them to this book.

Not a day went by that I didn’t think about Russell Gray and the fix that he was in. Day and night the stories kept coming to me, and I couldn’t get them out of my head until I wrote them down on paper. As soon as I would write them down, they left me and new stories would come to me. It felt so good to finish each chapter; it was like a breath of fresh air; like my eyes were opened and I could clearly see.

This novella is like reading a book of short stories or shall I say short dreams, many dreams as seen through the mind of Russell Gray.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 BURIED ALIVE

Chapter 2 GROUP SESSION

Chapter 3 THE LAST SUPPER

Chapter 4 THE HOUSE IN THE DESERT

Chapter 5 LOST AT SEA

Chapter 6 THE OLD WEST

Chapter 7 WAR DREAM

Chapter 8 ALIENS

Chapter 9 AMNESIA

Chapter 10 SOMEWHERE IN THE SKY

Chapter 11 THE TRAIN AND THE TRESTLE

Chapter 12 PSYCH WARD

Chapter 13 LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

Chapter 1

I suddenly opened my eyes, to a dark and cold nightmare. Hey, I shouted, What’s going on? I could feel my heart pounding hard in my chest, as I was fighting to catch my breath. Trying to move from a laying down position, I found myself in some kind of a box that was locked shut. Let me out of here! I shouted again, as I started punching the top and the sides, trying to force it open. It was lined with padded silk. I stopped for a brief moment to listen. I could hear some people singing. Just then I heard more sounds of something hitting the top of the box. I keep hearing it over and over again; it sounded like dirt being tossed over me. I just realized, I’m in a coffin! This can’t be happening to me. Get me out of here! I yelled louder. Help!! Help!! Can anybody hear me?

I started kicking and clawing at the coffin through the silk lining and into the wood. Blood was running down my fingers as I clawed even harder. I was screaming from the top of my lungs. It seemed like no one could hear me.

I could hear my wife crying in the background, Russell, she keeps crying out my name.

I yelled out and called her name, Sarah, help me, get me out of here, can you hear me Sarah?

Russell, Russell, wake up! You’re having a dream. Sarah was shaking me to wake me up.

My hands were swinging frantically as I sat up quickly and shouted her name, Sarah! I yelled as I woke up in my bed from the worst nightmare I’d ever had in my life. My body was dripping wet from a cold sweat, and I was shaking with fear.

It was only a dream, Sarah said as she held me closely.

That was no dream, it was a nightmare! I was being buried alive, it was horrible!

Well, it’s all over now, she added, you better get up and change into something dry. I’ll bring you some water.

Still breathing heavily, I tried thinking about something else instead of the nightmare. What a crazy dream. I’m sure glad Sarah was right there to wake me up.

Here’s some water, she said. It’s only two o’clock in the morning. Are you alright now?

Yeah, I’m ok. I remarked. You should go back to sleep. I need to stay awake for a little while until I get this dream out of my head and think of something else. Thanks for helping me.

You’re welcome, she said. Goodnight again.

I went into Billy and Todd’s room to see how they were doing. They were both asleep and I hope they are having good dreams. After going to the bathroom, I went downstairs and turned on the TV. This will help me get my mind off of that dream. Nothing good on this time in the morning, I’ll just watch some news. Wow, nothing but bad news. No wonder people have so many bad dreams. I think I’ll just lie down on the sofa and listen to the radio for a while.

"Russell, wake up, you have to