Novella

​I don’t mean the kind of sleep where you’re dreaming. I mean that quiet, black void you float in when you're completely under.

That beautiful sweet spot where you’re suspended somewhere between conscious and unconscious. Time moves so slowly in it, yet whenever you wake up, it always feels like you were pulled out of it too soon.

​Idk, maybe I’m going a bit mad (what else is new). But I’m fascinated by the idea of trying to catch myself in that exact moment.

I want to become lucid just enough to experience it in real-time, just to see if I'm romanticizing the void or if it really is as intoxicating as it feels right when I wake up.

​As an atheist, I imagine that’s what death is like. Just a peaceful, dreamless sleep. Lol.

Would you describe it as a weird subculture of people who claim to "shift" into their desired realities? Where they try to train themselves to be conscious enough to build a world within their dreams to escape into?

I'm not completely educated on that community, so please give me the tea if you can enlighten me!