Euneirophrenia

It was a silent night. The city was covered with pitch dark clouds. Even the owls were feared to show their presence. The roads are clear and lonely. Not even a dust is moved. The whole atmosphere looked like a haunted residence. The people sleep with no worries. The strays were also hidden. It was a pure silence…

Aaaaaaaaa!! Where does this scream come from? It was Alex. Screaming every night in the midst of silence was his unbreakable routine. Alas! Poor Alex has nightmares every single night. ‘Those were the nightmares that are so realistic, no one can see but me’ says Alex.

Alex is a 42-year-old nightmare freak. Nothing goes well in his life except his nightmares. He owns a small business near his house. He doesn’t have a lot of co-workers so he had a lot of works. He also takes overtime to run a successful business. He even travels to nearby cities to give samples and freebies to extend his sale.

Alex’s nightmares are terrible than a horror movie. His day whole day would be ruined if he had a nightmare the previous night. He always wished to have a pleasant dream or have no dream at all. He used to complain about his life being born that way. He envies others for having a perfect life.

He used to take sleeping pills for better sleep. Behave for those drugs he also got a lot of side effects. He got headache, dizziness, throat pain, shivering. But despite these cases, he managed to work a lot on his own.

One fine day he got an appointment to give away his samples at ‘Hope’s Hand’ home. He had never gone to one before. He was so excited because the orphans have no other go than to get his samples. He had never thought about them at once but only his business.

It was Tuesday morning and he got up at the crack of dawn packing all his stuff to have a visit to the home. What he saw there was totally opposite to his excitement.

The home holds every single life from newborns to the bedridden. The people were so happy to see Alex because according to the new things accompany only with visitors. The parents were abandoned by their children. The newborns were thrown away by their parents. The teens were kicked out of their houses.

The children ran towards Alex and looked at him eagerly about what he was going to give them. Alex quickly pulled out some snacks and handed them over to the kids. They were so happy. Then he gave away his samples after taking a quick look around the home.

It was the first time he was so grateful for his life. He had no co-workers accompanied him and so he made himself busy by giving the samples all by himself. He had a lot to do than his usual work.

The day ended so well. He arrived home dead tired. His body was aching all over. He decided to take a short nap before organizing his stuff. Unfortunately, he slept the whole night. Luckily he had a pleasant dream in which he found himself keeping the work aside and enjoying at the park. He never had such dreams before. It was new to him but he enjoyed it.

He had a piece of mind when he woke up. He realized his mistake which he had been doing for all these years. He decided to continue, doing good deeds, instead of complaining. His good deed became his sleeping pills. “Peace of mind comes from pleasant dreams. Pleasant dreams come from good deeds.”

Alex, who is also called a nightmare freak never had a nightmare ever since then. He had learned what life is. He enjoyed his dreams. He also gradually developed euneirophrenia!

There are many people who complain about their life rather than realizing how thankful they must be. Learn to enjoy life to become a person of euneirophrenia….