Alex fears heights and finds himself soaked at the highest point of Angel Falls in Venezuela. The waterfalls are violent, but the wind is so strong that the drops rise to the sky like reverse rain. He’s terrified; the stones around him begin to give way and Alex has nowhere to hold on to. Inevitably, he jumps into the void.
It’s 2:00 in the morning and Alex wakes up with a choked scream. He realizes he’s not at the bottom of the abyss of the world’s largest waterfall but in his bed. In the darkness of his room, he feels relieved, he turns to the right and hugs his pillow, feeling comfortable and safe. Alex tries to calm himself down, and although he’s in the right position to go back to sleep, he realizes something is wrong. «I’m thirsty,» he thinks, as he reaches out his hand and tries to find his glasses, which fall behind his nightstand after a clumsy movement. Frustrated, he leaves the comforting warmth of his bed and blindly walks to the bathroom, but without his glasses, it doesn’t matter, he can’t see anything.
Half asleep and half awake, he approaches the faucet and takes a sip of water; the contact with the water reminds him of the long fall of the waterfall. For a moment, he gets lost in the memory; he feels his bladder activate. «I need to go to the bathroom,» he thinks. He tries to aim for the toilet, finishes, and flushes. The sound he hears is not the usual one, and like the reverse rain of the waterfall in his dream, the water rises and reaches his feet, almost as fast as the powerful and unpleasant smell on his nose. Alex doesn’t know what to do, so he takes two steps back and the foul-smelling water gushes out of control, reaching his room.
He runs to the door of his room, but anguish, the lack of glasses, and the darkness add up to a sock in the wrong place and time, causing Alex to slip and fall face-first into the pool of black water on the floor. Once again, just like in his dream, Alex is soaked and disgusted. He gets up and stands, looking at his bed, with the background sound of water flowing through his floor. He remembers how comfortable he was five minutes ago, and how a silly dream and a leap into the void led him to swim in shit.
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