Write about a character whose dreams are portals to other worlds.

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“A Dreaming of Beyond” by Liam Murphy

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A Dreaming of BeyondI am not sure when it started for me, or perhaps it was just I became more aware of the phenomenon. I had begun to travel in my nightly dreams. My father, a phycologist, told me, “Emma, you have always possessed an extremely fertile imagination, and you recently suffered a couple of quite traumatic experiences.”I always hated when dear old papa attempted to psychoanalyze me as if a mere male could ever fully understand the totality of femaleness. I was aged sixteen and just starting to come to terms with how intensely sex...

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“Dreams Of Another World” by Melinda Madrigal

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What are dreams? What do they mean? Can dreams really take us to another world? Are dreams just part of our imagination? For Lucy, her dreams are nothing but real. I've been having the same recurring dream night after night after night. I don't know what it means. I've tried everything to get to the bottom of my dream. I've talk to literally everyone and they all told me the same thing, it's just a dream. I know it's not my imagination. There is something happening with my dreams. I just don't know what it is. Interpreting dreams is not ...

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“Entrance to an Enigma” by Rick Ouellette

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I had worked for a small underwriting firm for many years but one day me and my co-workers were pressed into service to help staff an upscale restaurant across the street. It was up the long-ignored steps that ran between the Blight Falls Five-Cent Savings Bank and the Commissary Exchange Trust. At the top of the steps was old outdoor business arcade I had never seen; it backed up to the rear wall of the hulking Bureau of Missing Information. I spotted the Blackburn Grill and unhappily stepped inside. My boss, who had just gone from CEO...

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“Cosmic doppelgangers'. ” by Lily SW

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The night is warm. Endless stars hang over my head like a thick curtain, almost close enough to touch. I slip a hand off the steering wheel to feel the curtails of wind wrap around my fingers. The sensation is so fragile and clean. The road empty, I speed up, the fragmented embers growing around my arm. And I suffer sad reluctance when the growing lines of city buildings come to view. On entering the city, a breakdown of rain falls onto my car, drumming on its shell. The city's fluorescent glare drowns out the natural skylight, creat...

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“Sleep Lab” by Donald King

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“Oh my God! It worked! I was there! I was actually there!!” Aaron leapt from the bed and tore off the sensors attached to his head. He raced over to the EEG machine and tried to look over Sandy's shoulder as she ripped off the readout and started pulling at the pile of paper that had accordioned on the floor behind the machine. “What did it show? Could you tell? I wasn't dreaming, I'm sure of it. It was just so real.” Aaron's friend Tim was hunched over his laptop, fast-forwarding through video of Aaron asleep on the bed. “I don't think ...

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“Space Boy” by Adelaide Dolha

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Clouds floated in between the balcony’s banisters shifting the curtains as it entered the room. The clouds disappeared for a moment with each step of her bare feet until she reached the end of the balcony. She stared out into the starry sky, more clouds drifting close enough to touch her fingers. The clouds had no texture to them, only the thought of them feeling like cotton candy or like a soft pillow kept her reaching out for them, only to be disappointed when they parted from her touch. The breeze touched her gently and she sighed w...

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“THE HIGHEST DOOR” by Mara Masolini

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THE HIGHEST DOOR Jenny was dreaming. She could see herself while she was walking down a country road. Just when she was about to start running, since it was beginning to rain, she fell, but rather she slid to the ground, lying flat down on the road. Then soon after she started to move very fast , crawling stretched out, with her body in contact with the earth. It was quite pleasant to move in that position at that speed, rubbing on the ground with the whole body. It seemed to be on a merry- go – roun...

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“The other side” by Ruth Zschoche

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The other side of the wall was there in his dream. The hallway went on, ducking down, then stopping to reveal another door. Through the door the cobwebs cleared. A little room sat there. A bed. A table, a chair, a red braided rug. A toy dog, plush and white.Sunlight playing through the window as the breeze lifted the sheer white and blue curtains and fluttered them. He turned back and saw the wall behind him. And the door. The door back to his room.He felt the control slipping just a little, found himself back in the tunnel between rooms. He...

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“This Isn't It” by Doug D

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Content warning: natural disaster, death, mature, noob writer+++ He had slept. Or was it the other way around? He lost touch with which was which anymore. He was old again. Stiff, sore, and subdued. Strong, still, and in good shape. Not like the younger him who drinks too much, and knows too little for the power he holds.He stirred out of a comfortable lounge chair next to a pool on his private balcony high on a tall building. His sunburn revealed that he had been sleeping there for some time. A full pitcher of melted ice wa...

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Write about a character whose dreams are portals to other worlds.

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✍️ 54 stories

“A Dreaming of Beyond” by Liam Murphy

“Dreams Of Another World” by Melinda Madrigal

“Entrance to an Enigma” by Rick Ouellette

“Cosmic doppelgangers'. ” by Lily SW

“Sleep Lab” by Donald King

“Space Boy” by Adelaide Dolha

“THE HIGHEST DOOR” by Mara Masolini

“The other side” by Ruth Zschoche

“This Isn't It” by Doug D

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Write a story about a character who believes their dreams predict the future.

Start or end your story with the line ‘This is my worst nightmare.’

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