Neighbor Fantasy
Apart from anything, there was blood all over the nice, clean, white shirt Michael was wearing; his own blood.
"Oh, but you can," Julia replied. "Have you ever heard that legend about dreams where you're falling? Normally, you fall, but you never hit the ground, right? Supposedly, if you land, you die in your sleep."
"I know that," Kelly supplied.
"Right," Julia nodded. "For most people, there's no real chance of death in their dreams. If they are about to die, they wake up. We're different, especially when we enter another person's dreamscape. If we die here, our minds die, and our bodies are left as lifeless shells."