The Dream Trap

while sleeping comfortably in the new apartment I bought a few months ago,

I realised I was dreaming — but somehow, I was also awake.

The fact that I was aware of the dream gave me a short moment of

relief, thinking I could wake up anytime. But then it hit me:

this was exactly the kind of dream my grandmother used to warn me about when

I was a child. Back then, I thought it was just a

made-up story, but here it was, happening to me. It was the

kind of dream where, if you die inside it, you die in