A certain species of time travel is possible, but only under extremely special and rare circumstances, a vortex of time lines, difficult to talk about, because cause and effect, before and after, past and present, are all merged.

Dreamy at age 12 wakes from a scary vivid dream that she can’t quite remember. But she remembers that she had it. She obsesses over it; believes it was vitally important, and tries desperately to remember. But she can’t. Periodically through her life she thinks of the unremembered dream…​

She grows up, follows a shaded path, and at 24 becomes involved with a violent criminal boss. One day while on his yacht he fell into a psychotic rage. He tied her up, cliped on scuba weights, and threw her overboard. As she is drowning she remembers that she had the dream. She thinks "if only my past self could see this…​"

Now, whatever that means, she has had a life where she remembered the dream. It’s a warning of her drowning, and, from the dream on she developed a fear of water.

Unfortunately, despite this change, Dreamy is not too wise. Again, she meets a charming psycho and is thrown overboard. As she fades, she berates herself for not communicating more useful information, information that could have kept her alive, could have kept her from the clutches of bad men.

In this timeline, whatever that means, her 12 year old self wakes with a more detailed dream, and a more certain understanding that her future self is communicating with her. She obsesses over her dreams, and keeps detailed notes. But in her quest for knowledge of the future she misses an important detail: she only learns from the future what her future self makes a particular effort to communicate with her.

But in all the detail of random dreams, she loses the message "stay away from bad men".

TBC…​