The second after I woke up from my nap, I hugged my brother.
I had a dream that my brother died due to a neighborhood shooting. A car crashed into our front door and two guys jumped out of the totaled car with guns. My brother wasn’t a target, he was just in the way. I was too shocked to be sad so I didn’t get to mourn or sob afterwards. My family and I had to clean up the mess and we had continue working since we were in debt. I was moving all the trash to the front yard so that the trash truck could pick it up. This meant I had to throw my brother’s body out too since we didn’t have enough money to bury him. While I was moving things away, I left my brother’s motionless body that was in a trash bag last. I thought about how I wouldn’t be able to share stories about my pathetic day and how I saw this cute guy/girl at school, or how I wouldn’t be able to spaz over shoes with him, or show him my favorite shot of the day, and just have our midnight talks when homework got too overwhelming.
I checked the bag and his body wasn’t there.
I woke up and I just thanked God that it was just a dream. (nightmare)
The second after the thought of hugging my brother, I told myself that I caught up on some of my REM sleep( damn psych). I’m learning about dreams in Psych and how this might be interpreted. Anyways, there’s just no one out there like my brother who has experienced and know me as well as he does.