The Unsolved Diaries: People Talk About Their Life’s Lingering Mysteries
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The Curious Case of Alan
I met a man in a dream within a dream named Alan, who told me I was dreaming and needed to find him in reality. He gave me a present that would have an address on it, but it might be scrambled when I see them.
I woke up to my first dream and I had the present. I opened it and saw the address. When I woke up again I looked it up but there was no address or iteration of it anywhere on earth.
Fast forward about 15 years and I’m living in an apartment when, by chance, I found a personal letter addressed to a guy named Alan, who apparently used to live in my apartment. The memory of that dream came back and I looked him up online. Turns out this guy was a neuroscientist who studied dreams. I’ve been too terrified to reach out to him because of the implications that it was true and also the sheer embarrassment if it isn’t.
