The Girl Who Remembered Other People’s Dreams
She didn’t sleep. She watched.
At eight years old, Mina stopped dreaming — and started seeing other people’s. She’d wake up whispering strangers’ names, describing rooms she’d never entered.
Doctors called it parasomnia. But when she described a man’s nightmare before he’d had it, word spread fast. People paid her to watch their dreams — to make sure they weren’t alone in the dark.
Then came the night she said:
“Someone else is dreaming me.”
The next morning, her bed was empty — but her voice was recorded on her monitor, whispering from nowhere:
“Wake up.”
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