It was on the perfect night that I met my savior. At midnight, I heard a knock at the front door of my house. I opened it and saw a stranger standing right there, smiling back at me. He was wearing a black trench coat over his fitted, black suit. Not many people would dare to wear such a thing in this kind of weather. "Are you the person who came to my dream last night?"
"Yeah," he said.
"What are you doing here?"
"I have something to tell you."
"What is it?"
"Come with me to a nearby place, and I will tell you. Make sure to not peek."
I nodded, stepping back. He nodded back and took off. I sat down on the couch, worried about what was going on. Sometime in the past five years when I started to dream, I was always having the same dream. But I didn't know the meaning of it.
I dreaded that the person would not answer my questions in the dream. The reason why I feared that was because I had a sneaking suspicion that the being I was saved from looked exactly like the person in front of me now.
After ten minutes, the stranger was back, and I followed him outside once again. What I saw there was the most beautiful place I had ever laid my eyes on. It was an overlook to a glowing lake. One side of the lake faced a dark forest, while the other was facing a grassy field.
"This is—this is…" I could not finish my sentence. The atmosphere of the place made me dizzy.
"Yes, this is your dream. But I'm not here to show you your dream. I'm here to tell you a message. The thing you saw in your dream was me—the person who saved you from your nightmare."
"Who are you?"
"My name is William."
I took a step forward, and he nodded once again. It was as if we were communicating telepathically. "My name is Lydia. I just turned 20 years old."
"Do you know why this is the best place to take you?"
"To wake me up?"
"Good guess. But you might not know why specifically. It's because of the power you hold."
"What power?"
"You may remember me mentioning a few years back that you will be awakening a power you possess. You were offered a choice, which I made sure to provide you with. You could choose to wake up when the time was right, or you could choose to be unprepared. If you chose to be unprepared, you would instead die in the middle of your 20th birthday. If you chose to wake up in time, you would be given a great power to control water."
"What did I get if I chose the second option?"
"Well, you nearly died during your birthday party last year. You were given a choice then to choose to wake up and save your life, or to die. You chose to live. You were scared the whole time, but you did save yourself. You were not prepared to awaken. You had this power for several years, but you could not read the language of water."
"Why did I have a power to control water?"
"That's a good question. You may have been born with it to teach you a lesson. Or you may have been born in another world and was reborn here. Now that you have been awakened and have begun to form your own thoughts through thinking and communication with others, I will not be here to help you."
"What are you talking about?"
"Have you ever had lucid dreams?"
"Yes, I do. But why?"
"That is where I'm coming from. I'm from this world, but I died three months ago in my world. I've been reincarnated here; and you're me now. You, Lydia, are currently the new version of me. I may have been you in another lifetime, that's why I am able to be here to talk to you."
"Do you know why I have the power to control water?"
"Any time your life was under serious threat, you subconsciously manifested a pair of connections between your soul and water. You may forget this later, but the reason for this is because of the power you have. Water is extremely powerful, but you can only control a certain amount of it. You have been able to control a large amount of water, but the reason for that is outside of your control. You must learn to use your power within your control.
"The dream you were having was a sign to tell you not to worry. I saw the being that was after you, and I believe it is my job to give you this power—the power to control water. Not only can you control water, but you can also manipulate emotions through water, like a thought inhibitor. The entity who is going after you could be using this to weaken you. I will not be here to explain any of what I know to you, because you are in a dream right now and anything can happen right now. Do you want me to teach you how to use this power?"
"Yes."
"You will have to learn to tell a story. I will teach you the basics, and then you must learn the rest on your own. It is a very important power, and it will be your most powerful one to control. It was given to you by nature itself to awaken. I must go now, and I will be helping you from this point on."
"Wait, who are you?"
"My name is William."
"Wait—"
"Goodbye."
I awoke with a start. His last words rang in my head, and I looked around, not knowing what to do. Unaware of the audience that watched me. A man in his late 20's walked up to be, smiling at me.
"You need to go now," I told him. "I need to do something."
He laughed and told me not to worry. "I already know everything you do. I know what you're planning to do next. I am always watching you. I am always here. My name has been spread out through the years. I'm a dream walker. I am one who walks through dreams and you will become one of those dream walkers in this world. It is only a matter of time before you reach that point, but tonight you will learn to control your life, and you will be awakened to your true self. Have a nice night." He walked off and disappeared. I wasn't prepared to deal with this but knew that I must make a happy ending for myself. I had never spoken to another human in my life before, but I was going to make it my next step.
As I stumbled back into my house, I saw my mother and told her to come with me. She quickly came with me and told me to sit down. I quickly told her all that happened.
"Who would believe you?" she said.
At the same time, she said that, I could tell that she believed me. After a year of being a new person, I was very mentally stable. I knew what I was saying was true. Suddenly, I remembered something from a dream that I had two years earlier. It was my second year when this dream happened. Every anniversary of my birthday, I would awake and hear the knock at the door. After that, my dream would start or continue. After years of seeing people dying in front of my eyes, I had stopped believing them. But now, I knew that this year was important.
I remembered being in a cold place, surrounded by trees. The ground was hard and rocky. I was running towards the light with a small stone in my hand that began to heat up when I traveled. It still hurt the moment I reached the top. I was looking down point blank into a face of a man-like creature. It was a dark shadow, only a black figure. I was looking into it and saw the power of the water. Water was what created this world around us. I saw that the world was a reflection of the one thing that was in between us—the power of water. The water power was the reflection of a real, glowing presence. When I saw it, a series of thoughts poured into my head. I saw a note. It was a note that was placed in my guard by my mother. I looked up from the note, and the creature was now gone, leaving only a note. It read,
Don't ever try to do that. It doesn't work. You cannot control water because you are another being. When you die, you will be leaving this world. Drowning your mind in water would be the only way to save you. It would keep you out of your father's grasp—from your grandfather. This world is not yours. I have to go now. This will be your last message. I am you after all.
A thought then begun to grow in my head. I couldn't remember what it was. It was growing so fast and so hard, but I knew that it was supposed to happen. I remembered that the quicker the thought started, the faster it grew. However, I was stopped by another thought. My father came into my head and told me that I was running. I was running from the same place that I was trying to run to the previous time. The water wanted me to love it and stop from thinking about it.
"Stop running. Let go of the water soul. It's drowning you. It's a power that is outside of your control. Let go of the soul and you will understand the power that I have given to you. You are not supposed to use water, but my soul is the key to your next life. I am you and your mother at the same time. I will be there for you. Right now you are running from your life. Find the truth and cling to it. Don't ever turn your back on it. Let go of your fear about it and you will be better. You will be welcoming it to the new world that you will be living in."
Afterwards, I now saw a fountain of light hovering in the sky. This was the place that was in between my life and this outside world. I didn't know what this was, but it felt right. I looked at my mother, and she was strong. I looked into the water and saw thousands of strange beings. My father told me that they were men. They can't go back to fix their mistakes, but they would be in the new world that I would find myself in. After that, I saw that I began to float up into the air away from the water. I floated up into the air, and I saw what looked like an island, but it was, in fact, a bottomless pit of water. A giant waterhole that would take me to the new world that I would be in. This would be a new life that I would have to make myself.
After that, the dream changed. I was now standing in front of the fountain of light with my mother. She looked at the power of water and told me not to worry. She said that she would be there with a line of family members.
"Who are you talking to?" I asked her. She told me that it was my biological father.
After that, I said that I would leave. I was ready to leave the world that I knew. My mother smiled and told me that she believed in me, and I believed in her. While saying that, one last memory came to me, and it brought chills down my spine. I was looking at the water that my mother pointed at, and I saw something that I had never seen before. It was a reflection from what I am looking at. It was a man with his eyes on either side of his body. His eyes were rolling over. This man was reaching for me. I felt like I had been there before. I felt like this was what happened three years ago in my life.