The Unknown

Nightmares have a strange way of dragging us into the corners of our minds we never meant to explore. They push us toward the places we avoid in daylight, the fears we swallow, the emotions we try to silence. And sometimes, the unknown, that part of our lives we haven’t yet faced, but it shows up in the most terrifying ways.

Last night, the unknown visited me in a dream.

In it, my brothers were fighting, really fighting, with weapons in their hands and rage in their eyes. It all felt too real, the arguments, the clash and the panic that clawed its way up my throat. I remember standing there frozen, watching people I love transform into strangers. I tried to scream, but the nightmare held my voice down like a weight.

When I jolted awake, I was shaken. My heart thundered and for a moment, I didn’t even recognize my own room. It took long minutes to realize it was just a dream, but the ache it left behind lingered like smoke which made me think about the unpredictability of the unknown.

The unknown most don’t show up as shadows under the bed. It could show up as the fear of losing people we love, the dread of conflict and a silent worry that life could break apart without warning. Nightmares force us to look at those fears. They exaggerate them, stretch them into monsters, then drop them at our feet.

After watching Netflix’s In Your Dream and having that nightmare last night, it’s clear that maybe that’s the purpose of nightmares and I can infer that it makes us strong.

This isn’t to romanticize anything, obviously, nightmares are never pleasant but because they push us to confront the things we usually run from. They pull our hidden anxieties to the surface and say “Here, deal with this,” even when we’re unprepared. And afterward, when we wake up and the world is steady again, we realize we survived something our mind exaggerated into chaos. The unknown is scary, yes. But it also teaches.

It teaches us what matters. It teaches us what we fear losing. It teaches us that even when our mind conjures the worst, we still wake up, breathe through the trembling, and keep going. That said, it’s okay to choose to see that nightmare not as a curse but as a reminder that love makes us vulnerable and that fear makes us human. Also, facing the unknown, whether in dreams or in life, is what strengthens us.
Sometimes the scariest dreams lead us back to ourselves.

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