Shake Yourself Awake - The Day I Realized My Whole Life Was a Dream
True story, raw nerves, no fancy jargon.
I was standing in my kitchen, phone in one hand, half‑eaten slice of toast in the other. Another doom‑scroll session, another headline about the world falling apart. Out of nowhere a thought slapped me: “What if this—my worries, my bio, my carefully curated feed—is just a dream I keep telling myself?”
For a few heartbeats everything froze. The fridge hummed. Sunlight hit the crumbs on the counter like tiny stage lights. And I felt it: the weird, electric possibility that waking up might be something you do while your eyes are already open.
That single shiver became this article.