I haven't seen a hamster for so many years I may well have dreamed or hallucinated the few I think I saw before.
On the other hand, I've never had dreams, hallucinations or any kind of waking experience involving God. The closest I've gotten was in two dreams where I died and, exceptionally, I stayed asleep and dreaming. In one of them, I experienced the beginning of an afterlife, but all I saw was a rather small hut, apparently resting on top of a vertical, impossibly tall pole, where I was with a few other recently deceased kids about the age I had back then. The last thing I remember, before waking up and realizing I was still alive, was someone casually mentioning they were going to give us some lunch.
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The red lake has been forgotten. A dust devil stuns you long enough to shroud forever those last shards of wisdom. The breeze rocking this forlorn wasteland whispers in your ears, “Não resta mais que uma sombra”.