The ostriches

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Antonio M. was a good neighbor of Mangas Verdes, Málaga, Andalusia, Spain; a normal, bald, 42 years old man, with double chin, living in a small village like Green Sleaves, as the place is known by the numerous British expats and retired ones living in the zone.


The kingdom of the sleep is impenetrable and dangerous, the dreams can have 2 realities, the lucid and the normal, everything seen in a normal dream is admixture of the data filed in our brain -even supposedly forgotten data from our distant past- with incidental events that cannot be controlled, mixed in random sequences of fantasy.


On the other hand, everything lived in lucid dreams, not only can be controlled -as we realize we are dreaming-: it's showing real facts, never random fantasies.


During lucid, or conscious dreams are activated the same zones of the brain activated while we are awaken, unlike the normal dream time, moment when these cerebral zones are blocked.






For some reason, one night Antonio M. woke up from his sleep, and saw himself surrounded by ostriches, big ostriches on his bed, with his eyes closed he saw all this: like a marionette he jumped out of his bed, caught mechanically a big-sharp axe that was under his bed, and started shattering the ostriches with robotic movements.


Apparently, human screams got mixed with the animals screams, which made him open his eyes, and actually wake up, to see the bloody corpse of his wife, and his two agonizing sons dying over the bed.






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