It Could Be a Dream

About this book

Have you ever wondered: what if reality were one big lie, and the only truth hid behind the first disturbing dream? In the novel "It Could Be a Dream," Ziad Samh invites you to stop breathing for a moment and look deep into your eyes — not to see yourself, but to see your shadow, which has been watching you from behind the mirror's glass your whole life. This is not merely a story to be told; it is a harsh psychological maze where the writer Ziad finds himself a real hero trapped in his own written text. The journey begins on a quiet, suffocating night when he wakes to the sound of strange breathing and the presence of a huge white dog with unblinking eyes, sitting beside a mysterious man whose faint smile carries an unbearable coldness. From that moment his bed is no longer a place of rest but a gateway to fateful questions that turn his life into a torn draft. Ziad soon discovers that the house he lives in is transforming into a living creature breathing with him, and that his reflection in the mirror lags behind him by half a second, as if he were living another time not subject to his body's laws. Every scratch on his body, every sound in his house, every distant bark is not what it seems — in a novel that dissolves the boundaries between the writer, his text, and his nightmare, asking whether we ever truly wake up.