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The old man told me not to swim in the lonely lake with its golden lilies and crumbling jetty warned that I could lose myself I didn't pay attention to his words and dismissed them as rubbish what could he possibly know about me As soon as I dived into the water the visions started to appear twisted fragments of long forgotten memories danced with possible futures before my eyes mixing and blending together until I could not tell one from the other Claws of fear gripped my mind and dragged me to the centre of the deep not willing to let me go suffocating me as I fight to escape Eventually I am snared by a hook and pulled to the surface again the old man helps me out of the water wrapping a towel round me as I shiver I look in to the old man's eyes and see the tears forming in his blue grey eyes before I can ask him why he speaks out in my voice 'Many years ago I swam in this lake and lost myself in the depths of fear have lost count of the years I've been looking but finally I have found who I was and the one I was is you' I looked into his eyes and saw myself staring back could it be that this is a warning for what the future holds as I wake up with a violent start and realise it was all just a dream