The night I died

The bark of the dogs outside was too immense that I couldn’t contain it anymore in my sleep. I woke up and switched on the lights, looked at my watch and it was 3 a.m. I remembered it was time to say the 3 o’clock prayer. I knelt down to pray and let the dogs bark. After all, it was their mating period. They were bound to make noise.

As I did the sign of the cross, I fell on the floor. I tried to wake up but I couldn’t. I did it the second time, and again I failed. I wondered what was wrong. I tried it again the third time. This time I managed but I woke up without my body. Another whole of me peeled from my own body. I have never experienced such a thing before. “What could it be?” I asked myself. Here I was, standing and my body was still lying on the floor, in a state I didn’t know. Then a white creature with broad wings appeared to me. I can’t say where it came from, neither what it wanted.