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A Frightful Story 

Dreams

Caroline

             I am walking in the jungle.  No sunshine and no light.  Black shadows fall on me.  I can see nothing but I hear heavy breathing.  It seems that somebody is peeking on me secretly.  The Wind blows by my ears unusually, as if a crowd of beasts are roaring at me.  I look around and find that there are so many big animals moving toward me.  To my surprise, I have become a little girl, tiny as an ant.  Even a shivering leaf looks like a huge boat.  The animals are surrounding me and staring at me viciously.  They look so fierce and evil that I am scared of them.  Then they start running after me and it seems that they want to trample all over me.   I scream loudly and cry out 「God! Somebody help me! Help!」 

Waking up suddenly and sweating from head to toe, I found it was just a nightmare.  Sitting on the bed, I took deep breaths again and again and tried to calm down.  Strangely, I had already had the same nightmare in the past few days.  Recently, I always felt so upset as if something was about to happen.  My anxiety increased as I encountered the dream night after night.

A few days later, my friend and I went shopping on our bicycles.  As we passed a department store, a strange thing happened.  At first, we heard screaming from a group of girls standing outside the department store.  For some strange reason, they all rushed into the store. My friend and I looked in their direction, not knowing what to think.  Maybe some famous singer was visiting the store and the girls were rushing to meet him. Just at that moment, we heard a strange sound, as if some heavy object had dropped on the ground.  Turning our heads to look for the source of the sound, we saw a bleeding human body lying on the side of the road outside the department store.  Blood was everywhere and it looked so disgusting.  Someone had just committed suicide! My friend and I looked at each other for a few seconds and didn』t say a word.  We were too stunned to speak.  Nothing came to our minds and we just wanted to run away immediately.  We both rode our bicycles as fast as we could away from the scene. 

Several days later, I began having dreams about a human being lying dead on the ground.  I couldn』t see the man』s face clearly but it seemed that he was smiling at me.  That dark body shape haunted me for a long time.  And whenever I dreamed of that horrible scene, I always thought that somebody would again fall from some tall building someday in the future.   The only good thing that came from this incident was that I stopped having dreams of being pursued by wild animals.  But how much better I am now, I don』t know.  After all, dreaming of a dead body is far from being a pleasant experience.  Can anyone help me?

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