The Dream Queen

Elle was famous in her neighbourhood for something rather strange. Her dreams. Yes, Elle was famous for the dreams she had. She was 19 years old and wasn't doing TAFE or uni, and had a permrnant night shift position, which meant she had pretty much the whole day to herself. It also meant that she was exhausted when she got home and fast asleep the minute her head touched the pillow.

Little did Elle know, she would soon be famous nationwide. Elle was discovered through her blog, Dream Queen. Every morning, as she drank her hot chocolate and ate her cinamin toast and fruit, she wrote about the previous nights dream. 365 posts a year, 30 per month.

It all started with a call from That's Life! Magazine who wanted to do an interview about one of Elle's dreams. Elle saw her story three weeks later. "Dream Queen's Dream Revealed!" Read the headline. It then went on to tell about one of Elle's dreams.

In this particular one, she was walking down a corridor. At the end of the corridor was a T intersection. There was two signs. One pointing left read 'hell' and the other, pointing right read 'heaven'. Elle explored both halls to find that down the whole length were a series of doors on either side. Elle opened one from each hall. In the one she opened from the hall named 'hell' was, lying in a basket, one of the things she hated the most- spiders. Behind the door she opened in the hall named 'heaven' was one of the things she loved the most at least 5 blocks of pure white chocolate. But just as Elle reached for them, something grabbed her hand, it grew dark and with that she woke up.

Then came a call from Sunrise, who also wanted to do an interview with Elle, two weeks after the debut of her That's Life! article. They did a story on another of Elle's extraordinary dreams.

In this one, Elle went to some sort of secret garden. Waiting for her there was all sorts of magic. There was a beautiful, crystal clear lake with mermaids, a cloud garden with fairies and a beautiful, flowery grotto with unicorns. Elle was a little girl again. She watched as the fairies put on a magic show for her, flew on a unicorn and swam with the mermaids. The last thing she remembered was spinning around and flew up and into the clouds.

After these two interviews, Elle landed a position as a regular columnist for That's Life! writing once a week about her dreams and also as an 'Angel' on Sunrise, coming in once a week to talk about different issues.

Elle is now married with two beautiful daughters, Skye and Tiarna.