Illusion or reality store by Asmaa Nada

After midnight, I woke up to the sound of regular knocks on a piece of wood. I thought someone was knocking on the door, so I extended my hand to turn on the lamp, but I discovered that the electricity had been cut off in the house. I was about to get up to see if the outage only occurred in my house or in the street where I live, but the sound of the knocks stopped. I felt happy. Whoever was knocking on the door had gotten bored and left, so I returned, closing my eyes to sleep again. Only a few moments. The knocking on wood began to return. I put my hands above my head, trying to suppress the anger, and I 

spoke to myself in a loud voice.

If this annoying person comes back, if he doesn't have a good reason to knock on my door at this time of night, I will kill him.

I lifted the cover and lowered my feet to the ground. I felt as if I had lowered my feet into a lake. My feet were not reaching the ground, and the feeling of touching cold water made my body shiver violently,

 so I quickly pulled my feet again. Then I came back and extended my feet further to touch the ground, but I was never able to reach. Until I touched the ground and my feet sank into the water until the water reached above my knees, I screamed hard to wake up the one who was sleeping next to me, and I said

What's going on? Where is the land?

I did not listen to my wife’s voice, and this is a strange thing because she wakes up with the slightest movement or sound, and because it was dark, I could not tell if she was next to me or not in the room, so I extended my hand to touch her body or the warmth of her place, but I found her body as cold as a piece of ice. I started moving her body, but There is no life in it, I'm terrified? The words echoed between my lips

What do I do? Did she really die? Was there some hurricane that came from the sea next to the house? How did I not feel it? Is there no other explanation for that water? No, no, maybe I'm sleeping and this is just a nightmare and not reality?

I tried to close my eyes and summon sleep, but I did not succeed. I extended my hand under the bed, touching the ground with my hand to convince myself that it was just a dream and that I would wake up, but I touched the water with my hand. I felt something passing through my fingers that resembled the skin of an aquatic animal, 

so I quickly withdrew my hand and put my feet together. My chest, then my hands around my feet, tremble, and my mind wanders, trying to comprehend what is happening? Moments of anxiety and fear in the dark passed as if they were an eternity. Light began to come from the side of the window. A faint light at first,