Lucid Dream

That night, he looked up at the stars in the sky. The stars were invisible, but he could feel them.

This unemployed man just wanted to sleep soundly while waiting for the announcement of the job application tomorrow, even though he already knew the results.

"Maybe tomorrow is the eleventh," Sazha said to himself while laughing, for some reason this time his laughter felt more sincere than when HRD made jokes about his fathers.

That night Sazha's body slept very soundly, but his brain was still working, secretly he thought about his fate in the future and thought about his childhood dreams that were now 100% impossible to realize.

After several hours of closing his eyes, Sazha could not control his body, even though his brain was still working.

The man was used to experiencing sleep paralysis, but was still afraid to open his eyes. His brain automatically imagined strange creatures.

At that time Sazha tried to move his fingers and toes, but his body still did not want to obey him.

For tens of minutes, Sazha still did that while closing his eyes—Sazha was already 33 years old, but he was still afraid of the invisible.

Because he had tried and the results were nil, the old man tried to open his eyes—he understood that after this he had entered a lucid dream.

Sazha's brain always thought about the things he didn't want to think about the most, and that made him really not want to enter a lucid dream—he had never had such a strange experience and he never wanted to feel it.

His body was sweating, but there was no movement at all. Slowly his eyelids rose, so that his eyeballs rotated to observe the surrounding conditions.

When he felt it was safe, he tried to raise all his eyelids, from above the sky he saw a woman's face covered in fresh blood and flesh, as if ready to be eaten.

Sazha's vision suddenly disappeared at that moment, unknowingly the man entered a lucid dream that was connected from within his brain.

In front of him, stood a monkey with a human-like form. The monkey screamed very loudly, Sazha covered his ears and told the ugly monkey to be quiet. However, the monkey kept screaming, until the dream world began to look chaotic.

The background of the world continued to change randomly, white earth, desert, lava, black, ancient times, to a very bright earth. The man saw a flying dragon with a turtle-like face, cities above the clouds, dinosaurs, round hairy creatures, and many other strange things.

Until the whole world became pitch black without any light or energy, Sazha's body slowly numbed making him shiver, his brain lost focus, he saw a figure flying here and there, its form was the same as a human, but his whole body did not look physically real, Sazha's brain processed the imagination that the black figure was the spirit of a teenager.

Sazha wanted to pull the teenager's hand, but his whole body was numb, his breath was short.

"Cold..."

Sazha opened his eyes, saw that he was still in his small room. Feeling something stuck in his chest, he opened his shirt and peeked at his chest.

A green diamond was seen that was fused with the nerves of his body, when his hand touched the green diamond, he saw the entire concept, idea, origin, and physical details of a creature that was actually human imagination, the creature was one of the ancient animals that had been considered extinct: Tully Monster, a unique ancient animal from the bottom of the sea.

Shortly after his finger made physical contact with the crystal, Sazha's body slowly transformed into a two-legged, two-armed monster, with eyes and a mouth that resembled a Sea Fish.

Without him realizing it, in front of Sazha there was already a strange fish with a long mouth like an elephant's trunk and both eyes as long as a snail's antennae.

"Who are you, strange creature?" Tully was surprised.

"Eh..." The face of the monster in front of him seemed to wrinkle.