A Strange Dream

One night I was so tired I fell asleep very quickly. Sometime at night my dream started. I was in a very large room without a ceiling. The walls were covered in black and white tiles but the floor was completely white. It was so clean it was shining. I had never seen anything as white as that floor and probably will never again. Suddenly a long black snake appeared right next to me. I somehow knew it was poisonous and started running away from it. Instead of staying away from me like any normal snake would, it came after me. I was running and running, but I didn’t get anywhere. Suddenly I was somewhere above the room watching myself runnig around the room. I can’t explain how I felt, it’s a feeling you have to experience for yourself if you want to know what exactly I mean. It was very strange to know I was running, but watching myself at the same time. Even though I didn’t see exactly who was running because all I saw was a black dot moving quickly across the spotless white floor with a long black line following it, I knew I was the black dot. All of a sudden the snake got too close, I didn’t have the bird's eye view any more. I was back in the room. While I was trying to get away from the snake, the walls started to close in. The room rapidly grew smaller and smaller. The snake jumped at my leg and sunk his fangs into it. I didn’t feel any pain because just when the snake bit me, I woke up.

Tiana K., 8.a