"There is always a woman!

The same woman!

Not just any woman, she is very hideous looking.

She stands in the shadows. It is evening but I see her clearly; the wicked glint in her eyes, the crooked creepiness of her brown teeth and the emptiness in her hollow cheeks.

She looks at me and I freeze in my tracks. I have a vague feeling I know her from somewhere but all I cannot place is where.

Trapped between her brown teeth is a chewing stick which in my opinion is useless because no amount of chewing on sticks can whiten those teeth again.

Her wrapper is tied haphazardly, stopping at her knees to reveal tiny, black legs covered in wrinkled skin.

I am too far away but I can clearly make out those features, how? I cannot tell.

In one of her excessively thin hands, she holds a small blade, from which something which I have a strange feeling is blood drips in huge, slow drops. I want to run but I cannot move a muscle except for the blinking of my eyelids.

As I stand looking at her, I begin to feel a sense of deja-vu, and in her uncharachteristically baritone voice she commands me to come to her, and my body begins to move without the permission of my brain.

I come within arm's reach and see to my utmost shock that her mouth is open and that in lieu of a tongue, there is a little black snake slithering within the confines of her mouth, poised head up like a viper.

With a bone-chilling chuckle, she lifts up her hand to strike me with the blade and…

I jump up at this point, covered in sweat."

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My counselor, a middle-aged man in a heavy looking suit looks lost in thought as I come to the end of my narration.

"And this dream has been recurrent since when?" he asks

"Everyday for the last two weeks" I respond. I am drenched in sweat even as I sit in his air-conditioned office, remembering this nightmare always leaves me emotionally drained.

"This one is strong!" I hear him mutter under his breath as he drags his massive leather-bound note towards himself on his table and starts scribbling on it.

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