– Yesterday wasn’t the first time you saw me, – he went on. – I’ve been watching you for a long time. I regularly meet you in my trips. I understood you’re just like me. You travel for along time, but still didn’t realize it, – he said seriously. – Now you’re in your near future, you came here in your dream – with the help of your dream.

– What travel, it’s nonsense – Leah panicked. Familiar fear shaded her consciousness.

The man looked in her eyes. Leah understood he’s saying something as his lips were moving, but she didn’t hear him. The shrill ringing in her ears, blurred silhouette, she falls. Water, stream, somebody catches her and pulls out of the water to the surface.

Tien saw the girl falling and jumped after her. The body was drowning. Holding the girl’s waist he took her up. The sailors immediately threw a lifeline and helped to lift the body to the deck.

She has water in her lungs, help her, – cried somebody behind Tien. He began CPR, then pressed his hand on her chest several times. Leah coughed. She came to for a moment, then again lost consciousness. She awoke from screaming Eli below:

– Hey, you, sleepy head, wake up! Pedro is here!

“What a nonsense I’ve just seen…”, – she put her fingers to her head and started massaging the temples.

I’m coming! I just need to change!

***

Pedro sat with her mom, Adam and Eli in the dining room, they were drinking tea and discussing something.

I decided to pick you up today, I’ll take you back home after the performance.

– Thank you, Pedro, I’m just unable to drive today.

– Honey, are you still sick?

– No, mommy, I feel much better, I just feel a little tired after the sleep. I will feel much better when we arrive.

She winked and took Pedro by the arm. They went to the parking in the yard. Pedro was an Afro-American, bold, tall, with great muscles. He was 27 years old. He spoke several languages. Together they looked great on the scene, perfectly complementing each other. Replace one of them with anyone else, the performance would immediately lose its uniqueness. Pedro arrived in the country at an early age. His mother taught dance at the prestigious private school. Leah and Pedro did not part as partners since childhood. Pedro’s mom put them together in the first few sessions as soon as Leah came to the group – and it was the right decision. Dancing was the girl’s way of escaping her nightmares. It’s all about the pulse, the heartbeat, the breathing. This is the rhythm of your life. It’s an expression in time and movement, the load, which strengthens the entire body, and it is a passion that fills the soul!

Leah’s long red dress perfectly fitted her slim figure. Pedro was in a white shirt and white stretch pants. They both seemed to be some perfect figurines made by an invisible master making a new masterpiece every second on the scene. Admired and excited restaurant guests watched stunned by the beauty of the dance – and then the burst out with the applause. Lights turned on. Black eyes of the familiar Asian were looking at Leah. The girl grabbed her partner’s arm and led him off the scene. Her heart was beating fast. “No panic, pull yourself together. You have to find out what it means and how it happens that I can see him in my dreams and in real life”, – she was thinking.

After brushing up and changing her clothes Leah entered the common rom of the restaurant. The man was sitting at the same table and drinking coffee.

One more coffee to that table, please, – Leah asked the waiter. She headed there.

Do you know me? – asked Leah. She sat at his table after welcoming the man.

Good evening, Leah. I gave you my name yesterday on the ship. My name is Sakong Tien.

The girl felt a slight shiver. Tien stared at her while she was trying to calm down – surprised, frightened and scared.

Are you ready to listen to what I’m going to tell you, Leah?

– I think I am. It was my decision to come up.

Tien’s serious and perfect lips smiled just for a second.

Long time ago my family had a land business; they bought and sold territories in different parts of the country. Sometimes they changed them for some goods. My father was famous on the South-West of Asia. At that time, the country had stable trade relationships with the Arabians, Japans, Chinese and Manchurian.

Once my father made an unusual deal and bought 200 hectares of land for himself for the first time. The land was situated on Eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula. Father checked all the documents in advance, but he didn’t have an idea how the deal will end. I was 10 years ago at that time. A month later some people dressed in white and with their faced closed with some masks rushed into our house. They killed all the servants, security and family. Father ran into my room and handed me a small package. He hid it in my pocket and told me to run away. But it was too late, so one of the strangers hit me with a sword. The wound was tough for a 10-yeas old child, maybe I wouldn’t survive. I saw my father screaming, I saw those people took him somewhere. He hid all the land documents in my pocket. I lost consciousness, then woke up in some other place. It was my house, but it had a new environment and some other people living there. I found out that it was another time. I wouldn’t see it even if I live for a very long time. My consciousness brought me forward too far away from my previous life.

I will be able to explain details a little bit later, – he added. – It took some time to understand that I came to another dimension. The family that adopted me were completely foreign to me, but they accepted me as their own. They didn’t ask how I got there. They evidently decided to postpone all the questions when they saw a child scared to death, in a strange clothes covered with blood. I had no injuries, but my clothes was all bloody. The documents still were in my pocket.

I am from the past. All these twenty years since that case I continue travelling in my dreams. I go either to the future or to the past, but never to the time when it all happened. I was sure I’m the only one who can do that until I saw you on a plane to China. You seemed just a pretty and funny girl to me. You went there with your classmates; it was clear from your discussions about the future trips with archeologists.

“But we plan this trip for the next year” – thought Leah without interrupting.

– Some time later I saw you again here, in the same restaurant, in the autumn. You were in a gorgeous golden dress with the autumn leaves on the threads falling down on your legs. You were with your dark-skinned partner. You looked beautiful that day. It was a guest-night on the anniversary of my business partner. We even got officially acquainted, Leah.

“It will happen the next week”, – thought Leah. She remembered about the dress that no one has ever seen ready before, even her. She and Pedro visited the fitting-room for couple of times, but she saw the autumn leaves only on the designer’s sketch. Some famous oil businessman rented the whole restaurant. Leah knew that. She was asked to make proficient preparations. The girl pressed a palm to her lips. She was on the verge of fainting.

– Is it all right, Leah?

– Yes. It’s all right. Please, go on, – asked Leah.

– Everything happens while we’re asleep. The first phase of our dreams is a light sleep. Our brain is ultimately active in this condition, while the body and muscles are absolutely relaxed and stay fixed. The brain’s sensibility to the earth electric implications can provide a connection with some beginning that permeats everything around us. Our brain is also a receiver that provides an invisible and unconscious connection with the planet or the outer space. Minor fluctuations called alpha waves happen because of human brain electrical activity. These alpha waves are specific only for the human beings. Minor fluctuations of geomagnetic fields appear around human head. Their frequency is the same as the alpha waves. The characteristics of these waves and electromagnet fluctuations are incredibly close to the earth characteristics of the same range, natural vibrations, so-called system “Earth – ionosphere”.

Your and my brains receive these alpha waves easier than other people’s, so we can travel through the time and probably space. The only thing I’m sure about is that we can travel only when we are asleep.

I traveled a lot trying to find the answers, I met a lot of scientists studying the theme. These people research this factor of human condition, and not only itself, but the possible facts of distance and time traveling. I found one Russian professor and told him my story. He found a possible explanation for it, but he’s not sure about the explanations and his researches, because it’s the first time he faces such a time trip. It’s the first time he sees it’s practically possible. A gravity field appears while we’re asleep. We can reach the velocity of light due to this field.

Time and space stop existing while we’re in such a condition. They change places, so traveling in space becomes traveling in time. Our consciousness is boundless. It can overcome not only the physical body bounds but the laws of space and time.

Leah didn’t know much about esotery and quantum physics, but she knew for sure that the man wasn’t a resident of psychiatric hospital.

If you lived so far in the past, how are you still alive here? Did the time influence you?

Leah, you can call me Tien. I live here for already 20 years, since I came here as a 10 years old boy. So no I’m 30 years old, the time has its influence on me. I grow older. But I am unable to come back to that certain day, even while asleep, even for a second.

Why?

I still don’t have the answer for this question.

For the first time Leah raised her eyes and looked just to Tien’s face. She saw a strange mix and different shades of loneliness, pain, sadness, courage, experience, assurance. Even Picasso would envy such a picture. She felt confident about him. She didn’t think he was lying, but she could hardly take his words in. Her head was awfully aching.

– Tien, I’m sorry. I’m just unable to understand all that at once. I need some time to think it over and to receive more answers. If you don’t mind, we could meet another day.

He looked straight into her eyes with his deep black eyes and slightly nodded.

***

– Who’s that man, Leah? I haven’t seen him here before. He’s wealthy dressed, he’s got a bodyguard and a very high-end vehicle, – asked Pedro as Leah came up to him. – Tell me, do I have to worry about you?

– I’m not sure I know him well, Pedro, but there’s nothing to worry about, trust me.

She recalled the situation on the ship, when someone pulled her out of the water. Some dim recollection of these piercing black eyes, his lips near her… No way! It was him! He saved her after she fell out of the deck consciousness. There was definitely something else… The girl was shivering.

Thank you, Pedro, for your care. You shouldn’t worry, I know this man, – lied Leah. – He’s not a maniac.

Leah didn’t want to tell Pedro anything. She was sure it looked like schizophrenia symptoms. After saying goodbye to Pedro she went home.

– Honey, are you hungry? – asked Leah’s mother. She wasn’t asleep yet.

– No, mom, I had a dinner with Pedro in the restaurant. Go to bed and don’t worry about me.

She still had a strong headache. Leah rolled herself in a rug, took a cup of coffee and switched on her laptop. After reading tons of suggestions, contradictions, facts and confirmations Leah found one interesting science work of some professor about dreams control. When we are asleep, our brain starts managing the new information received during the day. If the information is considered to be invaluable, it’s deleted. All the other packs of information are allocated in different archive parts of a brain. When the old part of information meets the new one, a picture is played, then another one and another one. That’s the reason why we see dreams. If you want to control your dreams, you have to wake up in it. In other words, you can’t control your dreams until you realize yourself in it.

Leah’s head was still aching. It felt like been pressed all over by some invisible hand. The girl put away her laptop and decided to relax. She laid back on the couch and turned on the TV. Her favorite channel about tourism and sport aired the show about the British expedition to Qomolangma in 1924. Several people were trying to climb the highest pique of the world.