I looked outside my window and what I saw was something that I couldn’t have imagined in my wildest dreams. You tell me, how would you react if you looked outside your window and saw an old tree, almost dead, with all leaves fallen off, glowing in the middle of the night? Well, I reacted the same way any normal person would. I went straight up to the front door of my house, threw it open, and ran straight up to the tree. The tree wasn’t just glowing. Rather, It was emitting light, and it felt so warm. I had never felt such warmth before in my entire life. I stood in front of the tree, staring at it with the biggest smile on my face. Just as I stood there, roots of the tree emerged from the ground, as if inviting me into the warmest and the most loving embrace. Without wasting a single second, I moved in and embraced the tree. The roots that were poking out of the ground now wrapped around me, getting tighter and tighter as each moment passed. After a few moments passed, I was not able to breathe. I tried to free myself but all of my struggles and effort were in vain. Nothing worked. My face was now pressing against the trunk of the glowing tree, and the tree bark had started leaving deep cuts on my face. As blood rushed down my face and splattered the ground, I started losing consciousness. The roots kept on getting tighter, and as I drifted away into unconsciousness, I could feel my entire body in pain, and I was sure that multiple bones in my body were broken.

I woke up after some time in my room, feeling extremely thirsty. “I guess it was all just a bad dream,” I said out loud as I went straight to the kitchen to get a glass of water. I felt a wave of relief wash over me. I filled up a glass of water and drank it as fast as I could, And as soon as I did, The amount of thirst that I felt quadrupled instantly. I was not sure what was happening, but now I started feeling dizzy. I dropped the glass I had in my hand, which shattered into a million microscopic pieces looking like stardust all over my kitchen floor. I immediately picked up a big jug of water kept on my kitchen slab and drank straight out of it. I did not know what took over me at that moment, as I overturned the entire jug right onto my face. I felt as if all of the air in my body was being sucked out. The feeling of dizziness I was experiencing increased, slowly taking over my whole body, forcing me to lose my balance and making my vision blurry.