Mat and I walk hand in hand, streetlamps jittering on the puddles like sky constellations dipping their toes in the dark. He’s picked yet another Fine-...
Mat has lost his upper teeth. The important ones. The front-line soldiers of his smile — the ones people notice first, the ones that do half his social...
There’s a knock at the door — three taps, frantic, like someone who’s just run across seven counties carrying seven children. I open it to find Ash, ch...
I’m dusting the antique cabinet, my feather duster brushing in soft, rhythmic strokes as I hum “Killing Me Softly” It’s absurdly cheerful for a song ab...
I’ve apparently made a dazzling new career move — because why stick to a tedious nine-to-five when you can reinvent yourself in the dream world? I’m no...
Tall trees loom around me like judgmental giants, craning their necks to see which poor soul has wandered into their territory today. I’m sporting a fu...
I’m in the writing zone — no, the writing vortex. The place where reality dissolves and the only thing that matters is the clack-clack-clack of keys un...
I really wish the dream gods would get their act together. Of all the infinite universes they could drop me into — enchanted forests, neon cityscapes, ...
It feels like the end of the world, or something wearing the same mask. The London Underground is vibrating like a creature caught mid-panic. Sirens ho...
I can’t get no sleep. I begin the night as a hopeful pilgrim, lying flat like a sacrifice to the Dream Lords, praying they’ll baptise me in their ocea...
I drag myself through another morning of drudgery, the sky a sullen grey pancake pressing down upon my spirit. My trusty trolley — loyal companion and ...
I’m sitting in a circle of empty chairs, the kind that look like they could squeal if you confess anything too heavy. The whole room has AA energy, min...
I don’t know what strange force summons us here, but here we are — standing on the rooftop of a skyscraper like two miscast extras in a psychological t...
I’m in a decrepit old house I don’t recognise. The ceiling sags and weeps in slow, swollen drops. Strips of wallpaper curl down the walls, peeling away...
Somehow the universe has dragged us back together, though the air between us feels thick — like a decade’s worth of unspoken sentences has congealed in...
These winding roads are mocking me now — taunting me with yet another bend, yet another déjà vu of sodden hedges and potholes deep enough to store chil...
There’s a knock at the door. I open it to find a blonde woman in full-body Lycra — the sort that should come with a health warning. She has the face o...
Michael Sealey’s honey-soaked vocal cords seep through the holes in my earbuds like warm caramel, oozing directly into the gullies of my soul. Oh, Mich...
Back at the drudgery they insist on calling “work.” Can’t I escape this damn place? Apparently not. Even my dreamworld gets infested —parasitically— b...
I’m at a barbecue, though no one looks like they’re enjoying anything remotely edible. People are scattered around Laura’s garden, sipping beer like it...
I wake up, or at least I think I do — because everything looks the same, but feels… off. Like I’ve slipped sideways into a knockoff version of my life....
I have been entrusted — quite irresponsibly, I might add — with a magical contraption full of swirling orange liquid. It looks like a flute, if a flute...
My phone is popping off like a firework in my hand — a staccato symphony of pings and vibrations. Texts are flooding in, relentless, multiplying like c...
We inherit a house. Not just a house — a mansion. It rises before me like something half-remembered from a fever dream: Victorian, vast, ornate as a w...
The restaurant is buzzing with noise and hungry diners. The kind of chaos that clings to the walls like grease. My husband and I sit by the window, awa...
I feel my body vibrating. That ever-familiar screeching in my ear. Like a kettle screaming from another dimension. I know I’m about to take off — but ...
It’s another delivery day, and I’m out with Kev — Kev of the creased face, Kev of the hollow eyes, Kev of thirty-five years and one frayed nerve left...
After gobbling down a chunk of chalk-sized Altha-GPC (industrial strength, straight from the dream gods themselves), I start to feel the all-too-famili...
Ding. Ding. I wait on Mum’s doorstep, stamping my feet to keep warm. Jen stands beside me, her breath hanging in the air like cigarette smoke. We’re i...
Granny’s practically levitating beside me, her wiry silver hair fizzing with anticipation. She’s been saving up her pension for this — for the boys, sh...
The bottom row of Mat’s teeth have fallen clean out. Snap right out like a denture. He holds them up to the light, which glints off them mockingly — th...
Church bells pierce through the wind — loud, discordant, like they’re arguing. I’m at a wedding. My daughter, Phoebe, is getting married. To who, I’m n...
I’m at the depot and all hell has broken loose. People are spitting feathers — literal feathers, almost — because the whole place has had a makeover. A...
I’m back at the dentist. That same antiseptic tang - disinfectant and fear — hangs in the air like a warning siren you can smell. “Not this place agai...
It’s Sunday. I hate these twelve o’clock starts. So much for a day of rest — it’s a day of waiting, watching the hands crawl towards doom. When I fina...
It’s Bring Your Husband to Work Day. The depot buzzes like a restless hive, fluorescent lights trembling against a ceiling stained with time. New faces...
The air in the depot is thick as treacle — heavy, slow, and humming with exhaustion. It clings to my skin like someone else’s sweat. The fluorescent lig...
I’m abroad somewhere hot and vaguely exotic — Greece, maybe, though it feels more like a parody of Greece, built from postcards and plastic suncream bo...
I wake to my daughter’s voice drifting through the morning air — loud, exaggerated, bright with that wild joy only children seem to carry. She sounds al...
That familiar sound of industrial scraping — metal on metal — an explosion in my ears. My whole body is vibrating like I've swallowed a jackhammer. Am...
I’m out on delivery again, though nothing feels quite right. My uniform’s wrong for a start. Gone is the garish red of Royal Mail — replaced by an Ame...
I approach a Victorian-looking toy shop — the vintage kind. Its crisscrossed windows glow like a lantern in the dusk, flickering gold against the darke...
Alex is young again. No older than six. He sleeps beside me, mouth slightly ajar like a baby bird waiting for crumbs of air. His cheeks are flushed, so...
The church door looms over us like something alive. Mat knocks once — a deep, hollow sound that rolls through the air — but there’s no answer. Just sil...
I’m at Mum’s. She’s been acting off all morning — twitchy, distracted. Not her usual self. She keeps pacing from the kettle to the window, window to th...
I realise I’ve become lucid. What now? I think. I mustn’t waste this opportunity. The air is ripe with possibility, thrumming like a pause before thund...
I have travelled back in time. I can only be around seventeen. Eighteen tops. My hair is cropped short — bleached blonde, like innocence that’s already...
Kev from work tells me about the flea market. Says it’s “a hidden gem,” which, from Kev, could mean anything — a car boot behind a Greggs or some post-...
I’d gone to bed listening to a sleep hypnosis track for lucid dreaming — one of those calm, velvety voices that promises to guide you deeper into your ...
I’m at the supermarket, half-asleep under the fluorescent hum, scanning groceries through the self-checkout. Beep. Beep. Each sound feels like a hear...
It was the dead of night when the knock came — loud, deliberate, and far too confident for the hour. I shot upright, my pulse racing like a siren in th...
“I have a surprise for you!” Mat announced, his grin practically bouncing off the walls. That tone — that overly bright, this-might-actually-be-good t...
I was standing on the landing, hand on the doorknob of my son Alex’s bedroom. After a lifetime of box rooms, he finally had his little attic hideaway. ...
It was pouring down rain. Absolutely pelting it down. The sort of tropical downpour that makes the sky seem to fall apart. Alex and I ran for shelter a...
It began, as these things often do, at a flea market. The air was thick with heat and chatter and the smell of old leather. I wanted to drift among the...
I was lugging around a massive duffel bag — the kind that makes your arms ache before you’ve even lifted it. Across the side, in fat black marker, I’d ...
The atmosphere in the depot was heavy that morning — thick with sweat, stress and the faint tang of machine oil mingled together until you could practi...
I’d somehow rekindled a friendship with my old pal, Kylie. Out of the blue, she invited me over to her childhood home — which, apparently, she now lived...
It all began in an enchanted forest. A chirpy tour guide led our little group along a winding path, his tail swishing like a metronome as we followed b...
I was taking my friends dog, Kylo, for a late night stroll. As I was crossing the road, he nipped the back of my jeans, pulled them down and licked my ...
I had lost one of my service users (Jeremy) in Asda. He was with me one minute, gone the next. I was rushing around, in a panic, trying to locate his w...
I was visiting one of my service users. As I approached her flat, one of my colleagues was just leaving. “She’s really drunk.” she said, “we’ve just ha...
I was walking down the highstreet, when I spotted my best friend, Kylie, in the distance. I ran over to her, poked her with an umbrella and, for some ...
I was watching this scene as through I were inside it, but invisible. I was in this hotel room. Eamon Holmes had fallen asleep on this sofa and his wif...
This cute pixie-cropped haired Asian girl started cutting my hair, whilst I was sitting in bed. I didn’t want it cut (I was trying to grow it) but she’...
I was out with a bunch of people searching for a little girl who had gone missing. We were trawling the local park. I remember seeing dogs everywhere. ...
I was giving my husband a blowjob. I was chewing gum at the time and trying to hide some kind of vape under my pillow(?!). I ended up getting gum stuck...
I was sitting with a group of parents, at this school fair, and my son kept lying down on this random older (but really good looking) guy’s lap. For so...
It was crazy hot weather last night (for the uk) which seemed to affect my ability to remember dreams... or produce good ones, for that matter! They we...
I was visiting a service user (Jeremy) I must have fallen asleep - probably due to one his long-winded discussions about having a vagina inside his ars...
I was driving along in the car with my mum and my husband when I spotted a pair of light purple lace knickers I didn’t recognise before in my rearview ...
Fran and Dionne came over. We were sitting in my bedroom and they kept complaining about the amount of dust and cobwebs. “Well, you can see your ways o...
So... I may have had a wine too many last night and could barely remember my dreams. Gah! However, I do remember Lady Gaga strutting through my door an...
I was sat at this abnormally long table, eating triangle-shaped sandwiches, with all these random people in the middle of a forest. For some reason, I ...
I had met up with my daughter in town. She was sitting on this picnic bench. I took a pew opposite her. After a moment of silence, I asked her how she ...
I was in my teens again, hanging out with this group of youths. We were all part of this swimming team. We were taking part in this swimming gala and h...
My daughter had told me that she was never coming home. I felt angry and hurt. My mum then called me and told me she was ashamed of me and that I was a...
So I ended up falling under too deep last night (dammit, Michael Sealey!) and can only remember two very small snippets of my dreams last night. Firs...
I was at parents evening, chatting to the head teacher about how my son was getting on. He said he had produced some unique work. While we were flickin...
I had adopted this teenage kid and his dog. He was a sweet little lad. No bother at all. But one day, he just disappeared and we never heard from him o...
I was sitting around with a bunch of friends when one of them pulled out this gigantic mushroom, which had other tiny mushroom growing off it. “Wanna d...
I had thrown a party at my house. For some unknown reason, I had invited one of my service users from work (Andre) and I had poured him a whisky. He lo...
I was part of this reality show filming Will Smith and his family?! (Keeping up with the Smiths, if you will.) I was filming a scene in which Will and ...
I was approaching this stunning Georgian house with a beautiful slate grey painted door. “This is bloody Gorgeous!” I said to myself, excitedly. (I do ...
I was walking, Otto, my aunty’s Rottweiler, late at night. He was ever so well behaved and would sit down and wait patiently at every street crossing. ...
My friend, Kylie, and I were walking to the beach. There was this really loud music, which we soon learned was the band, Slipknot, playing on the beach...
I was invited to this old house with some others but, what I didn’t know, was that the place was haunted. We were looking after this baby, who was now ...
I had been left in charge of this massive farm. Darlene’s Farm, in fact. (if you watch the Ozarks you’ll know exactly who I mean - terrifying woman!)....
I had met some friends at my old house (which was now their new house!) Karl was in the front garden, doing some gardening. “How was work?” I asked. (W...
I was looking after my friends daughter (who, in my dream, was only small again) She kept eating everything in sight and completely devoured everything...
I walked past a young(ish) couple, smoking weed. I stopped and asked them if I could buy a joint from them. The guy literally just poured some tobacco ...
My daughter had come back to the house to collect some stuff. She said she was staying at her friends house a bit longer and needed some space, but see...
For some unknown reason, I was chopping up a cucumber on the top of a car with a bread knife(?!) As I was mid chop, this guy I know (Lee) came strollin...
My daughter was playing up again. I had found her littering my bed in crumbs, whilst watching the Kardashians. I told her that she should NOT be in the...
I was riding a bike down this hill. For some reason, I was sitting on a pile of rotas. I passed one of my childhood neighbours and remember her laughin...
I was in bed, trying to read, but the lightbulb kept going out on my reading lamp. I went to turn it on again, but it wouldn’t turn on. All of a sudden...
I was in the supermarket, just about to go through the checkout, when I remembered I had forgotten to get something (I can’t, for the life of me, remem...
I had let my friend, Fran, drive my car... which was all fine and dandy until it came to parking it. Firstly, she tried to drive into a space that was ...
I was at this random under roof flea market. I knew that I had been there before (even though I didn’t recognise it in real life) but it had changed dr...
I was abroad on holiday with a group of random people on this excursion. We jumped into this mass of water. Jenni was there and I accidentally kept tou...
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