Dream Escape

Dreams were funny things. Some said, like in Cinderella, that dreams were a wish your heart makes, your deepest desires, others that they were just weird, random things your brain strung together as you slept. People may have thought that dreams were reflections of our past and some hopes for our future. Whatever your opinion, dreams are somewhat magical. Like a story, in a dream, anything can happen.

Maya Sinclair's opinion of dreams fell into categories one and four. Maya believed dreams were both a wish of the heart and a hope for one's future. Not only were dreams these things for Maya but also an escape. An escape from reality. From reality's tough nature and trying times.

Maya always slept the most soundly when she dreamt, and this day, her dream was something she could not stop thinking of. The whole day it plagued her mind. In the dream, she had been with her mother, who had died when Maya was 3 in a car accident. In this dream, Maya was the same age as she was in the present day, 15. Though her mother hadn't aged a day. She was just the way she'd been when Maya was 3. She was hust the way Maya remembered her. They'd been on a deck somewhere overlooking a beautiful rainforest. There was an outdoor dining set on the deck, white in colour. This was where Maya and her beautiful mother had sat, simply talking. Talking as if her mother had merely gone away for 9 years and had now returned. Maya was filling her in on the events that had occured in her abscence.

At the end of the dream, Maya's mother told her that although she could bno longer be with her, she could be with her in a different way.