The Dream Maker

[00:00:00] Welcome to Scary Story Kids.

[00:00:04] My name is Edward and today's story is about a young girl who learns a little bit about

[00:00:09] how dreams and nightmares work.

[00:00:13] Do you know how they're made?

[00:00:15] Listen if you dare.

[00:00:19] Are you ready?

[00:00:21] Here we go.

[00:00:30] Mom used to tell me about the legend of the Dream Maker whenever I had nightmares.

[00:00:36] It was about this little old lady with long white hair that lived up in the mountains where

[00:00:41] clouds were born.

[00:00:44] Her job was simple, to draw our dreams on a piece of paper and turn them into paper airplanes

[00:00:51] and send them to our homes at night.

[00:00:54] Not all of them would get in, not all would arrive, which is why sometimes we had dreams

[00:01:00] and other nights we didn't.

[00:01:03] But if her job was only to do that then why would she make them so scary sometimes?

[00:01:09] Well, Mom would say, she makes mistakes.

[00:01:14] When you draw me, do I always look like me?

[00:01:19] She was right.

[00:01:21] If she looked like how I used to draw her, I would be scared to get close to her.

[00:01:26] But back when I was little I thought that Dream Maker legend made sense.

[00:01:32] But I wish I hadn't thought about it so much.

[00:01:35] I had a couple of friends at school who would talk about their dreams all the time.

[00:01:41] Once I got to middle school, I realized that they were probably making them up.

[00:01:46] But back in first grade it was something that we talked about during lunch at the

[00:01:50] cafeteria and school.

[00:01:52] What did you dream about?

[00:01:56] Clara and Martina always told me of the greatest things you could imagine, that

[00:02:00] they were scientists working at the International Space Station or that they had a submarine that

[00:02:05] would take them to any beach that they wanted.

[00:02:09] One time Clara and Martina both said that they were in the same dream.

[00:02:13] And I'm embarrassed to say it now, but I believe them.

[00:02:18] But back then and now I guess I liked always sticking with the truth.

[00:02:24] So I would tell them that I had not had a dream in many nights.

[00:02:27] They would roll their eyes and get back to eating their carrot sticks and peanut butter.

[00:02:33] Days passed by and the question was the same.

[00:02:37] What did you dream about?

[00:02:40] It was tempting to make something up, but I didn't.

[00:02:44] I would shake my head and say that I didn't dream anything.

[00:02:48] On my way home from school one day I told Mom about the question and that I hadn't

[00:02:53] had a dream in a while.

[00:02:55] To which she said that it was okay, that you don't always dream and that it might mean

[00:03:00] that I'm actually resting and not tiring myself out in them.

[00:03:04] Do you really want a dream that you're working or that you have ten ponies to take care

[00:03:09] of?

[00:03:10] And I guess she had a point.

[00:03:13] Mom used to always complain about work, but I also did think that it was better to

[00:03:18] not dream anything than risk having another one of those nightmares.

[00:03:22] From the last one I was being followed by a large dog through the dark woods.

[00:03:27] I woke up just before it caught up to me.

[00:03:30] But still, I wanted a dream.

[00:03:34] I really did.

[00:03:36] That night after Mom closed the door to my room and I saw the light from the hallway

[00:03:40] turn off, I stepped out of bed and walked to my window.

[00:03:45] The flickering light from the street lamp across the street was making a buzzing noise.

[00:03:50] Moths and other insects were circling around it.

[00:03:53] But then I got it.

[00:03:57] I opened up the window about halfway up, and I could feel the wind coming through.

[00:04:03] That should be enough space for the paper airplane with my dream to arrive.

[00:04:10] Excited I climbed into bed and made a cave out of my blanket.

[00:04:13] The room was colder than I thought it would be, but the blanket was warm enough.

[00:04:18] I counted down from one hundred and lost track of the numbers at some point.

[00:04:23] Soon, when I was fast asleep, I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of the

[00:04:31] creaking floor by my bed.

[00:04:34] I grabbed onto the blanket as tightly as I could, but something was pulling on them.

[00:04:41] This was my dream, a nightmare.

[00:04:44] The little old lady had made a mistake again.

[00:04:48] Harder and harder I held on, and harder and harder it pulled.

[00:04:52] But then I froze when I heard a raspy voice.

[00:04:57] Hello, little girl.

[00:05:02] I tried to hold my breath to not make so much noise, but I couldn't.

[00:05:06] It was getting hot inside the blanket, and I was having trouble getting air.

[00:05:12] Hello, little girl.

[00:05:15] The voice said, I couldn't hold my breath any longer.

[00:05:20] So I pulled down the blanket just a little bit.

[00:05:23] I felt the cold air in the room.

[00:05:25] It was morning now, and the room was freezing cold and still dark.

[00:05:35] I looked toward the window and right underneath it was a little old lady.

[00:05:41] Her sinister smile was glowing.

[00:05:44] I had opened up the window a little too much.

[00:05:47] I hadn't just let the paper airplane with my dream inside, but the dream maker,

[00:05:52] her whole body had gotten in.

[00:05:55] I screamed and I heard the footsteps of mom coming to my room.

[00:05:59] She sighed before opening my door, but when she did, she gasped loudly.

[00:06:05] She looked right at the woman at the wall by the window, and without taking her eyes

[00:06:10] off of her, mom grabbed my arm and carried me out of the room, closing the door behind

[00:06:16] us.

[00:06:17] We ran toward the front door, got in the car, and waited.

[00:06:23] The police came a few minutes after that.

[00:06:28] I don't think that was the dream maker.

[00:06:40] Scary Story Kids is written by me, Edwin Covarrulles.

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[00:06:58] Thank you very much for listening.

[00:07:00] Keep it scary everyone.

[00:07:02] See you soon.