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THE SLEEP GRADUATES #horrorfiction
Dr. Maya Chen never believed in souls until she mapped one leaving a body.

Her sleep lab's new quantum brain scanner wasn't supposed to detect anything unusual. Just standard brainwave patterns during REM sleep. But something was escaping her test subjects each night—a complex energy signature departing the physical form, traveling somewhere the machines couldn't follow.

When subjects woke, the energy returned, changed. Carrying something back.

Chen's team discovered our understanding of dreams had been completely backward. Dreams aren't products of our minds. They're visitations to somewhere else—a decaying realm of fragmented realities. A place where the dead linger in states of half-existence.

The locals call it Waking. To them, our world is Heaven.

They've been trying to graduate here for millennia.

Ancient cultures knew this. It's why Egyptians bound their dead. Why Native Americans hung dream catchers. Why virtually every civilization had sleep rituals. They weren't superstitions—they were quarantine protocols.

Chen's research revealed the horrifying truth: when we dream, we don't create that world—we enter it. And its residents see our physical bodies as vessels. Empty homes waiting to be claimed while we're away.

In dreams, they study us. Learn our mannerisms. Practice being us. Each night, they pull us back into their broken realm, hoping we'll stay long enough for them to slip into our vacated bodies.

Sleep paralysis isn't your brain's mistake. It's your body's defense mechanism—keeping you frozen while it verifies you're the original owner returning.

Sometimes the verification fails.

Chen's team identified three hundred and forty-seven people worldwide who came back... wrong. People whose loved ones insist "they haven't been themselves" since that night they couldn't wake up. People who sometimes stare at their own reflections with expressions of awe and gratitude. People who never dream anymore.

Chen called them "Sleep Graduates"—entities who successfully completed the transition from their reality to ours. Who escaped their hell by stealing someone's heaven.

The government shut down Chen's lab after her findings leaked. Classified her research as a national security threat. Officially, the project never existed.

But the graduates are still here. More arrive each night. They can recognize each other by subtle cues humans can't detect. They're building something. Preparing.

For what, Chen couldn't determine. But her final note warned of one critical discovery: these entities can only maintain their hold on our reality while the original owner remains trapped in theirs.

That's why you sometimes jolt awake from a falling dream. It's not your brain misfiring. It's you, desperately trying to return before your body is permanently claimed.

Tonight, try to notice if you feel slightly different upon waking. If memories seem fog-like. If loved ones look at you with subtle unease.

And if you find yourself unable to dream anymore...

I'm sorry, but you're not who you think you are.