You dream of the lover who didn't stay. In the dream, they look at you with eyes full of the forgiveness you never received. Their hand fits perfectly in yours. You talk for hours about nothing, and everything. Then the alarm rings. You open your eyes to the cold side of the bed and the weight of an apology you never got. That is the curse.
We are taught from childhood that dreams are the language of the soul. That to dream is to be alive. That the dreamer is the architect of a future no one else can see. la maldicion de los suenos
The curse makes you restless. You start to resent the present. Your job feels smaller. Your relationships feel duller. Your city feels grayer. Not because anything changed, but because your dreams showed you a technicolor world that your waking hands cannot build. You dream of the lover who didn't stay
You cannot live inside the dream. That way lies madness. But you can steal from it. A brushstroke. A conversation. A small act of courage. You take a single grain of sand from that impossible dream castle and you drop it into your ordinary soil. You talk for hours about nothing, and everything
You dream of the person you could have become. The brave one. The free one. The one who said "yes" to the risk instead of "no" out of fear. That version of you is so real, so close, you can almost touch them. And then the sun rises, and you are left with the ghost of a parallel life.
But no one warns you about the curse hidden inside that gift.
Because dreams are supposed to be fuel. But when they are too powerful, too pure, they become poison. They show you a paradise you cannot enter. They give you a key to a door that does not exist.