DREAMS
I was riding my bike in the dark as I neared the corner. There had been an accident and someone was yelling, "He's dead! He's dead."
As I neared the crowd I looked and there was a body curled up in the fetal position. It was me! I kept pedaling. There were two men approaching the scene. They didn't seem to notice me. I continued cycling in a dazed state. A lone woman passed and she gave no indication that I had almost clipped her.
Next, I found myself at a gathering. It was daytime. I kept trying to talk to different persons, but I was invisible to them. The feeling of frustration was overwhelming. It occurred to me that I didn't exist. I straggled in an alternative reality. I was deceased.
As I was awakening, fantastic figures were emerging in the background. In this inchoate phantasmagoria I felt I could communicate with them. It occurred to me that they were dead, but it wasn't a dreadful encounter. As social as the living were, I began to feel that the dead could be as social, but at this juncture the scene was dissolving.
The exasperation I had experienced endeavoring to communicate with living individuals lingered with me as I lay in bed and watched the fan spinning overhead. I deduced that upon death all connections with this world end. I reached the conclusion that anything I needed to say to the different people in my universe, I needed to say in the here and now.
I rose, went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. A gloomy reflection greeted me, but at least there was a reflection.
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