With their hands held tight, the father and daughter duo landed on a ground that seems strange. Both raised their heads to feed their eyes with the amazing construction of the environment they found themselves. Everything looked absolutely real and colorful, beautiful and intricately detailed. Alisha almost got totally convinced that they are in the real world perhaps just a different location from the hotel she was in.
"Dad am confused.. where is this place?" Alisha curiously asked her Dad.
"This is the dream realm my dear" Mathew answered.
"Wow! This obviously look too detailed and too real for a dream"
"I know right" he added "this is the power of Will"
Alisha bend down to fetch some sand from the ground, the sand felt so real, she still could not believe that she is standing on a ground which is suppose to be in a dream.
"So if this is a dream, then whose dream are we in?.. Yours or Mine?" she asked.
"Haha.. this is your dream Alisha and by the way that's an intelligent question"
"Uh! Wow, my dream is as awesome as this?"
"Yes it is"
"How am I even doing that, I've never had a dream this real, too real for a dream"
"You are not doing that my dear, I am." Matthew smiled.
"oh.. you are making my dream this real?" Alisha asked surprised.
"Yes! My presence here kept this dream thus far. My Will is stronger than yours and moreover, the dream realm has been my domain since i left the earth in the name of dead."
"You say that rather too easily.. you have no idea what your demise did to Mom and I"
"You think i wanted to die?"he sobbed. "I felt so terrible that i had to find my way back to you guys. It couldn't work as i was already dead, so i used the sheer power of Will to harness the power of dreams, to walk in it, to use it as a channel to be with you and Aliya." Matthew explained.
"But really Dad, how did you know you could do that?"
"I didn't know I could do it,
"OK"
"Few months after I shaded my earthly body, I was still roaming the earth, I was always in the house with you and Aliya but non of you could see or feel my presence. I became so frustrated that I had to start looking for a way to communicate with you. I met one of the ghost I came across during my roaming on the earth plane, using his experience, he taught me how to travel into the dream realm and use it as a channel to communicate with the people I love, that's what happened"
"Wow! That is cool" Alisha exclaimed.
Her father's story impressed her so much. For she couldn't believe that even after someone dies, they don't really die, life still continues except in another realm, the land of the dead or even the dream realm. She realized that in another dimension, invisible to the mortal eyes, inaccessible by the living, is a world full of life. Where souls or ghosts can live a normal-like life, learn, feel loved, feel lonely and can even go to extreme extends just to be with someone they once loved and still love on earth.
Matthew took Alisha through the dream realm, the realm of the lucid dreaming, where everything is possible, where only your imagination is your limit, a place where he and his daughter could be with each other. One of the must amazing places he took her was a very beautiful river, flowing with golden colored water, surging with sweet fragrance. He dipped his hand inside the water, the mild force of the flowing water hits against his hand, that felt so good.
"You should put your hand inside the water, it feels good" he persuaded his daughter.
"This river is beautiful but very strange.. I can't believe it is in my dream"
[Matthew Smirks] "This river is not in your dream" He said.
"What? How do you mean not in my dream?" Alisha curiously asked.
"At the course of our little expedition in the dream realm, I took us from your dream to my own dream realm without your knowledge. That why I told you Alisha, in the realm of the lucid dreaming, everything is possible as long as your Will and your imagination stay strong."
"So you use your Will to create a river that flows with gold in your dream.. for what purpose Dad?" She asked.
[Matthew remain calm] "I did not create this river" he said. "the river came to life by itself." He added. [Looking at her] "At first I could not understand why a river of golden water should come into my dream landscape, but after a while I realize that the river symbolizes the love that fills my heart and the peace I found in you and your mother." He explained.
"Wow! Everything you are telling me is amazing Dad"
"Not as amazing as being with you here my Daughter"
"Yea you can say that again"
[Matthew smiles]
Meanwhile, on the bed in the hotel room, Aliya sleeps like a new born baby. She was exhausted during the plane ride, she needed the rest. Alisha's almost lifeless body lays beside her sleeping mother, fixed in a state of sleep paralysis, for the lucid dreaming demands so. If her body isn't fixed in a sleep paralysis state, she may get into the dream walking state, a state where the dreamer actually act whatever they do in their dreams.
It been only one hour since Alisha's consciousness left her body into the dreaming, but in the dream realm it seems like five hours had pass.
In the dream realm, Matthew took Alisha to the top of a mountain. The mountain top is like a fantasy natural garden, a large plane field full of tiny beautiful flowers. Once the got their, Alisha opened her mouth in awe of the mountain top, while she does that, Matthew went down on his knees, placed both of his palms on the ground, mildly closed his eyes. He became focused, Alisha snapped out of her amazement and began to look at her father.
"Dad! What are you doing" she curiously asked.
"Shush.. just watch" he replied.
Before Alisha could think of anything, the ground they are standing on began to check. At first the ground began to crack at different places and in the blink of an eye, Alisha could see stems sprouting out of the cracks. In a speed unfathomable by her, shrubs and gigantic trees sprouted out. "Oh my God!" Alisha exclaimed in amazement. She surveyed the newly born forest, she was amazed beyond imagination.
"Wow.. this is awesome Dad" She commented.
"That is the power of Will" he exclaimed.
"Can I do that too?" She asked.
"Sure.. that's why I did it in the first place. It is so that I can teach you how to do that and also a few more tricks" Matthew explained.
"Ok Dad. Am ready to learn anything here"
Woosh! The wind gave way.. the clouds in the sky disappeared, and every tree and shrub that sprouted out just minutes ago began to pull themselves back into the ground. Matthew lifted up his right hand and the clouds in the sky reappeared, only this time thicker. The mountain top became just as it were when they first landed on it.
"Ok now the field is plane, let me see you grow some shrubs" Matthew challenged Alisha.
"Haha.. only shrubs? That is a little challenge" Alisha bluffed.
"Uh huh.. Well then genius, show me how powerful you are.".. he added, "Also bare it in mind that this is my dream not yours."
"I know that Dad"
Alisha gently went down on her knees just like her father did, She place her palms on the ground, she began to feel the power surging in and out of the mountain. She became completely focused, she ceased every thought, every worry, every blurriness. She began to give back the power she fetched from the ground and as electrical current passes through her body into the ground, the ground began to gently open with very less sound compared to the magic her Dad pulled. And just as the ground will start stemming with shrubs, Alisha flicked, the whole place glitched once and stopped.
"Ashhh.. What is happening?" she quickly asked her Dad.
"Yish.. She is calling you" Matthew replied.
"Who?" Alisha asked.
"Your mother" he answered.
"But am not hearing her call" she said.
"I know, she is gently slapping you on your cheeks, and that is what's causing the glitch for you, probably thinking something is wrong with you.. she is panicking right now" he explained.
"How can I wake up?" she asked.
"Just relax and close your eyes.. Sleep here so that you can wake up there" he answered.
Alisha quickly dropped herself on the ground, she closed her eyes. She breathed a long breath in and a long breath out, she did that to help her consciousness to relax.
Meanwhile, Aliya kept tapping Alisha on her cheeks. She was confused, she thought something was definitely wrong with her daughter.
In tears she shouted.. "Alisha wake up please.. what has happened to you?"
Alisha wouldn't wake up. Aliya then took to her heels to a table where there's a bottle of water on top, she quickly picked bottle and rushed back to the bed to pour the water on her daughter but to her amazement, she saw Alisha sitting up right on the bed..
"What?.. You are awake" she blurted while panting heavily.
"I was with him Mom" Alisha whispered.
"With who?"
"I was with Dad"
"Matthew?"
[Sighed] "Yes Matthew!"