Mushrooming part 3...

part 2 here

Here we go... but first, answer the question...:

is there anything strange coming to your mind when you are in the forest looking for mushrooms?...

After dinner they all sat in the living room – Jess was drawing, Adam and Anna drinking wine, were watching a film on TV. “I have to apologize you, honey – accosted the woman – For the last two years I’ve been rather bad wife. I have nothing in my defence, I was just a wrong kind of woman. Everything is going to change now”. Adam didn’t answer. He thought about a divorce (again) but now… “I am sorry, I am a little tired. I’ll go to bedroom if you don’t mind”. She didn’t. She smiled and kissed him, letting him go and do whatever he wanted.

“It happens again - Adam realized he was dreaming - This time you will know what I felt when I had left you. In fact, I didn’t leave you. You were left by me, but not because of me. It was, well it is and it will be, their fault. But not long left for me.” Someone was talking to him, someone, who he knew for sure. But the person, the man, was small (like a dwarf). With long beard and hair – both grey, with rotten teeth and a lot of wrinkles on his face. He was scared but also – Adam could feel it – excited about something. He was talking to him sitting on a ground, surrounded by trees bushes. “You will come for me, won’t you?”

Adam woke up. What was it? Who was that man? It was Monday. Six o’clock – the high time to get up and go to work. But who was that man? He knew what he had to do.

At nine o’clock he was in the forest again. He got out of the car, dressed very, let’s say, casually. Old tracksuit, a pair of old, dirty trainers. He surely hadn’t worn it for ages. When he was standing by his car he realized, he was holding a basket with a short knife inside. “Mushrooming” – the same, ‘again’ subliminal thought came to his mind. In that moment, he realized that his personality (he, his mind, or so) was divided. The rational part unfortunately was not the dominant one. The unconscious person (the one , which couldn’t be noticed, understood and limited by the other one) was stronger. It was mastering his body – real (aware) Adam knew what was happening but couldn’t stop it. Real Adam knew what was happening, but he didn’t know why and what for. It was that part of him, without which the tool (the body) wouldn’t work.

“Was it the only reason? Would it disappear after the work is done?”

“What work?”

“You never know. It is never done”

“What work?”

The “what work” sound became more silent with each time it tried to be said.

“Yes, this is the only reason…”