Dream World

Legend foretold that one entered Dream World could not come back to reality. Many people tried to enter Dream World through daydreaming and sleep, but they fell into a long sleep. They never woke up. They were like dead people. Their minds were active, but their bodies were paralyzed. Doctors tried to wake these people up with all kind of new technologies, but they couldn’t help. It was not up to doctors to help a person to enter in and out of Dream World. It was up to the person mental strength to enter and exist Dream World. 1

The story started with a boy, named Thanh. Thanh was small and short as his age. Thanh had short black hair and brown eyes. He loved to daydreaming and sleeping at school. The boys at school used to bully Thanh because of his physical outlook. Every time the boys bullied Thanh, Julie came to rescue. The more Julie rescued Thanh the more the boys bullied him. Julie was a tall and attractive girl. She had long blonde hair and hazel eyes. The boys were after her most of time, but she had no interest in them. Thanh felt ashamed that Julie rescued him and he couldn’t take care the boys by himself. He tried to fight the boys and end up in bruise. Thanh started to daydream of becoming a super hero. He dreamed of fighting the boys and saving Julie. The more Thanh was daydreaming the further he traveled into fantasy world. He didn’t realize that he traveled into Dream World, where fantasy took place, but not reality. He lived in Dream World. The real voices and images that he heard and saw became imaginary. They were like real, but they weren’t reality. Thanh was the main character in Dream World. He was the hero. He had super power. He could perform amazing tasks. He was always alive after many obstacle events. No one realized that he entered Dream World. 2

Teachers were worry about Thanh that he didn’t concentrate in the class. The boys that bullied Thanh left him alone. Meanwhile, Julie was wondering what happened to Thanh. Why was he sleeping most of time in the class? What was he doing at home at night? Was he a werewolf, sleeping at day and waking up at night? The counselor contacted Thanh’s parents. He was worry about Thanh. Thanh’s parents didn’t speak and understand English well, so the counselor talked to Thanh’s elder brother, Hung. Hung told the counselor that Thanh slept a lot at home. After he came home from school, he went to bed. He was only wake up for diner. The counselor and Thanh’s family were concerned about Thanh’s health. He tended to sleep a lot. They brought Thanh to see psychologist, but psychologist was no help to Thanh. Thanh had already entered a part of Dream World. If Thanh kept daydreaming and sleeping, he would be in Dream World and just like everyone else he would never get out of that world. Doctors wouldn’t be able to help him because they had hard time understanding Dream World. It was up to Thanh’s mental strength. 3

Thanh didn’t realize that too much daydreaming and sleeping could be bad for his physical and mental health. Bad habits were easy to develop, but good habits were hard to achieve. Thanh was addicted to bad habits. Bad habits ate the soul out of him from one good cell to another good cell until the cell started to apoptosis. Thanh had entered Dream World and it was tough for him to get out of Dream World. Would he like everyone else, falling into a long sleep and never wake up? 4

Thanh was short and small, but his mental strength was amaze. Although he couldn’t stop himself from daydreaming and sleeping, but he could get himself out of Dream World. The only way to get himself out of Dream World was to have a nightmare by thinking about dying or watching horror movies. When he though about dying or watching horror movies, he would have a nightmare. When Thanh sensed that he was in danger in his dream in Dream World, he would be awake from the dream and existed Dream World. 5

Watching a horror movie was much easier than thinking about dying because there were many ways to die. Dying was painful. The ways out of death were suffer. If a person suffered long enough, death was no more painful. Thanh though about dying, but he was scare because he didn’t know what happen after he died. Death was the end of his World. He would see nothing and knew nothing. He would be no longer suffering. Death was the end of Dream World, not out of Dream World. Thought about dying not only brought Thanh out of Dream World, but it made Thanh to feel how treasure life was. Life wasn’t like living in Dream World, where reality wasn’t real. God made humans to enjoy their lives on Earth. He would be happy if humans served him and took good care of Earth. 6