A sharp pain on one side of my head wakes me up suddenly, with the feeling that I've just hit my head on the root of the oak tree in the forest.

Feeling disoriented, I try to coordinate my vision with my movements while I make an effort to understand what has happened. But something prevents that from happening. When I realise my body is plummeting, my mind starts to be aware of what's happening.

"Wake up, my girl. Please." An unknown voice whispers. However, my skin begins to peel off as if I were unravelling; and I comprehend I'm losing control. "Everything has an explanation," I move my arms trying to stop the fall. I don't understand why it's all dark. Am I dreaming? I manage to turn my body so I'm facing the ceiling. Just in time, everything stops and, when I sit up, I'm sitting in my bathtub shivering and trying to cough all the water I have swallowed out. My hands desperately touch the cold bathtub.

Yet something's wrong; instead of air, what comes out of my lungs is water, and some indistinct voices are saying to me in a foreign language: "We're arranging everything for when the time arrives".

What's happening? Where do they come from? Who's talking to me?

An unexpected tug on my hair submerges me back into the water and, trying to fight for my life, I do my best to resist the force that's pulling me in. Even so, it is too strong and I end up breaking through the bathtub, shattering it to pieces. Around me, I see miles of glass shards scattered all over the place.

I release my breath.

"Everything is your fault!" the voices shout at me. But I'm alone, on a white bed under a single light bulb. "You'll be back!" they assure me. What's all of this? I cling to the bed sheets, frightened, but they slip from my hands like sand between my fingers. Then is when I realise I'm actually digging a hole.

I look around me, confused, until I see a bright light tunnel. Am I trapped inside an hourglass? Suddenly I'm shaken out of my trance by a voice: "Wake up!".

"Help!" My scream finally manages to make its way out of my throat and the air to my lungs all at once. What kind of lucid dream was that? 

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