Sabrina woke up gasping for air, her heart racing as she tried to make sense of where she was. She was thirty-one years old, safe in her own apartment, but the fear she felt was overwhelming. Once again, she had dreamed of being abandoned in a dark alley after leaving a college party. The dream was so vivid that even after waking, she struggled to shake the feeling that she was completely alone. It wasn't the first time this had happened. For weeks, recurring nightmares had i

I remember going to the county fair as a child and walking into one of those mirror illusion rooms. Everywhere I turned, there was a different version of me; one that was tall and stretched in one mirror, another that was short and distorted. Some reflections made me laugh, others made me feel a little unsure. I didn’t know which one was real, so I kept adjusting by moving, turning, and trying to find the “right” version of myself in the reflections. But the truth was, none