The man in the dream

 Renu, a lady of 28 years is a teacher at a government school. Her interests in academics led her to pursue PhD. She is a girl who rules her own life with a decent dominance of her existence. Renu 's parents are aging and they are reluctant to make her get married. Renu the charming girl, who mixes up with every possible decent human being is a lonely girl deep down. She finds every human relation is complicated and this is the reason she doesn't want to extend her family. But being a teacher she loves to give a nurtured upbringing to the new generation. Unlike her parents she had no desire to marry anybody.

                                It's around 12O'clock at night Renu had thoughts passing down through her unconscious mind, that she could observe through her consciousness. Tomorrow a family is coming with their son to visit Renu and her family at their place so that they could have a talk regarding marriage. Renu felt drowsy and tired ar her study table. She had no idea she started dosing off. Now, the unconscious self starts its game. A dream started to manifest within her mind. She finds herself a mother of a young boy. The boy whom she has groomed in her own way. In her dream she finds instances where the boy speaks up for equality for real and discards male chauvinism. In their little home she cooks and the boy wash the dishes and clean the house by dusting and sweeping. This boy is someone who voices neither for men nor for women but for mankind. He finds mystery in every human, being a keen observer of everything. He is his mother's strength and weakness at the same time. He breaks the patriarchal rules and cries whenever he is in pain. He loves and respects the diversity that nature has created in terms of gender. He has many questions to throw to this society where both male and female are involved but only females are blamed, as in case of sexual abuse, divorce cases, being polyamorous, having extramarital affair and many more. An open minded gentleman overall, whom Renu had groomed with her own hands over years  She is proud of her son at times. A man with the rarest thought process and outlook towards this modern world, where modern patriarchy, till date holds the fact that virginity is a woman's touchstone in modern patriarchal society.

                                A sudden loud call made Renu come into consciousness. Renu 's mother was calling her loudly. She asked her to get ready as her probable would be in-laws are coming. She was taking time to understand what she dreamt last night. She finds herself sitting on chair and putting her head down on the study table. She kept quiet the entire morning and set herself ready. She didn't even share the dream of last night with her parents as she herself found no clue behind this dream. Moreover the impact of the dream was so real to her that she couldn't believe that it was something that she was dreaming of. She found the dream and the real world as two spheres of reality. 

               At around 11 O'clock in the morning the much awaited family arrived. As she entered the drawing room she made the first eye contact with the boy, with whom she might get married. Is she shocked, or overwhelmed or numb? What is this feeling called? This was exactly the same boy whom she had in her dreams last night as her son.