In the beginning there was nothing, and then even that fell asleep too. Liana didn't know who she was or what she was, and wasn’t even sure if she really existed in this state or not. Perhaps all existence was just an illusion.
She wasn't in an ordinary dream now, but it certainly wasn't a dreamless sleep either. Somewhere in between dimensions and states of consciousness she kept floating. She was aware that she was not aware now. But there was no eternity of sleeping in the dark red twilight between existence and non-existence this time. She actively fought against the void and the unconsciousness.
"I think, therefore I exist. Even if everything is a dream, somehow I still exist…” she exclaimed, to no one in particular and to the entire multiverse at once.
She woke up in a dream; came to consciousness without eyes to open in a dream world between dimensions, in a nameless state where time and space merge. For a long time that couldn’t be quantised she floated around without gravity or distance, and then she felt she was being called. Something called her by name.
She woke up on the floor in an empty world. Little grey aliens and tall green humanoid reptiles danced around to strange music, singing in an unknown language. They seemed to ignore her, yet she sensed a threat. These creatures were dangerous; but they didn't exist. Or did they? She knew she was not in a physical world, not even in a spirit world. This was a dream world, but not hers. She didn't belong here. She shouldn't be here! The alien music became faster and wilder, and more unstable. Suddenly the aliens turned into ancient Kavanderrans, with their strange noseless faces, and their limbs that had one joint too many. Large and small Kavanderrans made of stone danced around her in wooden movements, as if they were hieroglyphs brought to life. The whirlwind of dancers went faster and faster until finally she couldn't see them anymore. They dissolved into the air, leaving her alone.
She stood alone in an empty room, staring at the orange sun. A young woman sat next to her on a huge square block, staring at fields of several metres high spinach plants that appeared all around. She had purplish hair, bare feet, and was dressed in a simple dress. Liana recognized her somehow, from past dreams she'd almost forgotten, and knew her name. “Ikiki!” she cried, but her dream friend didn't answer and didn't seem to notice her even. A boy about the same age approached Ikiki, and they hugged each other and disappeared together in a kind of whirlwind that wiped out all the plants too.
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The sun turned red, exploding like a piñata, and Liana closed her eyes as the huge shockwave hit her. When she opened her eyes again, a very different sun hung over her, which was small and almost white. She stood on a floating stone that levitated in the air, which was part of a whole herd, or maybe an archipelago of these floating stones. On all of the other stones stood strange creatures, armed with clubs, axes and knives. They looked like greenish-grey trolls with tusks, or were they some kind of orcs? There probably wasn't a single name in her own language that would fit, so she stuck with orcs. She knew these orcs, though she didn't know how, but she'd never seen them in this area. And the last time there had been one of them who had defended her from the rest. She looked around but didn't see him. Meanwhile, the orcs began to enter her flying rock with some kind of anchors, and climbed up to her on the ropes. She saw the grinning fangs of the nearest monster. But when she was completely surrounded, they turned into Drotnira. Their leader was suddenly Andira, and she was holding a Kavanderran weapon that she pointed at Liana."You're the last one we need, after that there won't be any more Gorchbolds in the multiverse." She said triumphantly, and fired the weapon at her, out of which only flowers came.
Andira and the Drotnira morphed into her classmates. "You'll never find a boyfriend, you with your stupid sweater!" Ellen yelled, suddenly having a whole harem of her boyfriend's clones around her, more and more of them until they filled up the whole world. Liana tried to remember his name, but she had forgotten it again. "I don't need a boyfriend, you have enough of them for the whole world already!" she said back. She knew it was nonsense, but in this dream everything was, so it was the appropriate answer.
Meanwhile, the whole world was filling up with copies of the boy whose name she always forgot. All the other boys in the class turned into him, too, and the girls. Finally, Ellen herself underwent the same metamorphosis and the whole world was destroyed in an explosion of nameless boyfriends that slowly became shapeless. Dimensions crashed and fell apart. Words dissolved and shapes came out of nowhere. Subatomic particles and superclusters of galaxies danced together like wild dervishes. Nothing and everything came together and became one and then repulsed each other again. And finally the universe expanded and became quiet…
The next thing she noticed was that she was standing at the edge of a huge lake with a yellow ginkgo leaf in her hands. Here she found rest and peace, but time didn’t seem to exist anymore.
From another world she could hear someone calling her name. “Liana!” She wanted to answer, but couldn't move her body. She wanted to call out but no sound came. She was paralyzed, and everything slowly faded.
Then everything went dark, and she fell back into a normal sleep.