The Stranger
Hello Everyone,
Is been a long week for me. My MS has been reeling is ugly face. I been having so much pain and fatigue is been super hard just to get things done. I normally don’t put that much attention to it as I know I will have this pains come and go but this time around I feel like the pains are getting in my way. I have pain on my back, triceps, forearms and on my hands. My hands feel like I got hit with a bat multiple times. That’s the best way I can describe it. It truly doesn’t feel pleasant. That’s MS sometimes when it decides to flare up the pains that come with it are completely unbearable. I also been having a lot of nightmare as of late. A couple of month ago I was having issues with my sleep and I brought this up to my primary doctor. He gave me a medication to help with my MS pains and also help me sleep. The medication has been working well and I definitely have been able to sleep a lot more. I have been under a lot of stress as well so maybe this has had something to do with the nightmares I been having. I started to write down everything I dream about as soon as I wake up. That’s mostly because I have terrible memory and writing it down helps me remember. So this week I want to share a nightmare I had the other day. I will be coming up with names as I tell my dream as I did not get names for the people that were in my dream. I will also add extra details as I want this to be more like a story. The reason I want to tell it like that is because I want to turn an awful nightmare into something positive.
It was a rainy afternoon and Steven was in the back seat of the car while his parents were driving to a cabin. The cabin is at the top of a mountain and is a house they had purchase a couple years back. They been coming here for years as Steven parents love the outdoors and being close to nature. Steven has also develop this love for the outdoors and always loves to seat in the porch just watching the wildlife do there thing. The rain was pretty harsh and they were hoping to make it to the cabin before the road floods. Steven was looking out the window when all of the sudden he hears thunder and it makes him jump on his seat. He has always been scared of thunder ever since he was a kid. It just brings him back to those days when he was all alone at home and hiding under the sheets every time the thunder roared outside. His family was unfazed however they acted like nothing happened. Steven was getting very impatient and ask his dad how much longer until they arrived at the cabin. His father then said “maybe about 10 minutes all depends on the rain as I can’t see much”. His mom tells him to be patient and Steven just stays quiet. He knows he can’t rush things specially when rain is coming down this heavy. They started to pull in to the cabin and Steven can’t help but have a big grin on his face. They park the car and Steven mom tells them to leave the bags in the car for now and come back for them once the rain slows down. His dad agrees and they grab their keys and start running to the door. The rain is coming down really hard that there’s big puddles on there way to the door. Now that Steven has wifi on his phone he decides to check his phone just to see when the rain would stop but his app is showing rain until the following day. He tells his mom that he would go get all the bags out of the car as the rain won’t let up until tomorrow. He starts running out and starts to grab there bags out of the trunk of the car.
As Steven is unloading the bags out of the car he hears a tree branch break behind him. It startles him that he turns around immediately to see what it could be but he doesn’t see anything. He then continues to grab the bags out the trunk and starts running in with the bags in his hands. He has one more bag in the trunk and he goes out to grab it. As he starts to walk out he notices that it’s starting to get dark out. He gets to the car grabs the last bag and locks the door and as he is going back inside he remembers the sound he heard earlier and as he was closing the door he looks in that direction and notices a shadow standing there. He closed the door and tells himself it was probably just his eyes playing a trick on him. He heads straight to his room and starts to unpack. He can’t help it however he keeps thinking about what he had just seen. He found it very peculiar as the cabin is in the middle of the woods and he had actually never seen a person around this cabin ever since they first started to come here. There closest neighbor was actually a couple miles down the mountain and have never actually seen or meet them before. His parents are very tired from the drive and go straight to sleep. He is the only one awake. He starts to think about what movie he would like to see as he wasn’t feeling that sleepy. He goes to the living room and starts looking through there movie collection. His mind is still thinking about that shadow so he decides to take a peek out the window.
As he looks out the window he doesn’t see much and since it’s already dark out it’s hard to see out there. He begins to look around the cabin however just to see if he sees anything. He is scared to turn on the lights as he is afraid that if someone is out there he would let them know he was looking out the window trying to spot them. As he starts to look around he turns off all the lights around the house. He looks in the front of the cabin and sees nothing. He then heads to the backdoor and looks out through a small window. As he is looking around he hears a foot step outside. This catches his attention right away and he tries to locate where the sound came from. As he tries to pin point the source he sees a shadow coming to the window. He tries not to scream but he can see a silhouette of a person coming towards his window. There’s several windows in this cabin and he can see the person walking around the cabin. Steven starts to think what can I do and sees a long stick right by the couch. He grabs it and grabs some duct tape and heads to the kitchen. He finds a knife and begins to tape it to the end of the stick. He knows that he wants to stay far from this person and this is the best idea he comes up with. The shadow disappears and for a second he thinks that they are gone. It’s then when he hears the footsteps coming to the front door. He prepares his make shift spear and can hear him fiddling with the lock. He watches as the door unlocks and prepares for this encounter. The door opens and he begins to swing this stick around and he can feel that he stabs the individual. He sees the individual fall back and he closes and double locks the door. He runs to his parent’s bedroom and tells them what just happened. His mom calls 911 and his dad rushes to the front door and when he opens it there is no one there. They wait for the police to come and Steven begins to tell them everything that happens. They begin to search the area but can’t find anyone. The police notice that there is blood on the knife and swabs it to run the DNA through there database. They tell them they will be back in the morning with the results. In the morning they hear a knock on the door and there is the police chief at the front door. He starts to tell them that they have a match on the DNA. He said that the DNA belongs to a very bad guy. This guy was being investigated on suspicions of him being a serial killer. Evidence had linked him to several unsolved murders and when they went after him he escaped into the mountains. It was there where they lost track of him and were actively searching. It was only until a few days ago they had found a body at the bottom of the mountain. After doing an autopsy and running his prints through the system they found a match. It was him they had no explanation as to what had happen to him as the autopsy couldn’t determine a cause of death. He found it super strange that this was the individual Steven encountered last night as he is believed to be dead. His father looks at his family to see their reaction. He tells them they have to leave.
I have enjoyed retelling this dream for you and I hope you enjoyed. I was thinking of retelling other dreams so I might do that here and there. I have been struggling like I said so I am hoping to bring some more once I feel better. My infusion is coming up soon so hopefully I can feel better by them. Until next week I hope everyone has a wonderful week.
