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The Haunted Mansion

The Dream That Never Stops Haunting

By Jen PhillipsPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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What is on the other side of the door? All I want to know is what's on the other side of the door. But I can never get close enough to open it.

For almost 10 years, I've been having the same dream. But, each time I have the dream, I get one step closer to opening the door.

It always starts out the same. I'm walking down a long dark dining room. I'm walking with a butler, a maid, and a couple other people. I don't really know what they look like. I never really see their faces. There's also a guide, but it is my house. They're always holding a lantern. They guide us to this door, and we walk into what looks like an in-law-suite.

I'm showing the room to families to rent. But never see their faces. The maid and butler are always standing in the background. We are aggressively cleaning the room so people can move in.

There's this door I see. When I try to walk towards it, the butler starts screaming at me. I can never make out what he is saying, it's so muffled. The butler turns into a skeleton but the shape of his body is still there. Like his skin becomes transparent and all you can see his skeleton.

Then I wake up in what looks like a bedroom from a psych ward. But I am still in the mansion. There are nuns and nurses surrounding me. They're trying to strap me down and keep me quiet. Like they don’t want me to tell anyone what I might have seen behind the door or maybe this is the punishment I get for trying to open the door. I try to get up and yell out for help but when I do the nuns and nurses pin me down and sedate me. I see the door and I try to make it to the hallway. The nuns call out for more help because they’re unable to keep me down. Once I get to the hallway, I look into the bedroom and they can’t figure out what has happened. Everyone is looking around the room but can’t find me. It’s like they can’t see me in the hallway. I look down the long dark hallway and I wake up from the nightmare.

Each time I have this dream it always starts out the same. Once I notice the door in the dream, I get one step closer to the door. The closest I have gotten is, I've been able to open the door a little bit before the butler has noticed. But I've never been able to look inside the room.

What’s so important behind the door that the butler gets so upset about? To the point where I get sent to the psych ward and get strapped down and sedated. Through out the dream I see the door and wonder whether it leads to another room or realm. Does the door lead to the attic?, or maybe the butler and maids corridors?, and maybe that’s why he gets upset because I am invading his privacy. But that’s not something to get that upset about.

When I wake up I realize I should ask the butler why he gets so upset about what’s behind the door. It is my house after all. What is he hiding? But when the dream happens and the butler gets upset, I try to open my mouth to talk but before I can say anything to the butler nothing comes out and I’m in the psych ward.

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About the Creator

Jen Phillips

Having a creative imagination has no limitations. My favourite past time is just dumping all my thoughts on to paper and seeing where it goes.

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