I'm having the dream again. It's the fifth day in a row, and it's always the same. I stand in a shower, steam rising off my skin. When I turn to look in the mirror, I stare at myself, and the person next to me who wasn't there a moment before. They seem out of focus, but as I watch they solidify. She looks to be about my age, she has dark hair and eyes that are black as coal. I turn back towards the shower in shock, and she stands before me. She is stunningly naked, her full breasts rise above the curves of her stomach, below which her hips swell attractively. The woman is calling for me, her lips move and her eyes are desperate, I step closer, trying to make out what she is saying.
Her gaze falls down my body then, as if she's noticing me for the first time. Her expression changes, becoming what I can only describe as hungry. I stand still, flushing as I become self aware of my own nakedness. She stares straight into my eyes, and I can see the crazed desperation behind them, the intensity of it frightens me. I gasp, backing away as I make a move to leave, but suddenly the haze is gone, and I become intimately aware of her solidity as she presses forwards, pushing her body against me with feverish intent. I'm pinned against the door, unable to move.
Her skin is cold to the touch, almost icy, as if she's been standing outside with no clothes. Her hands explore my body, and she whispers in a rich, husky voice into my ear. The sensation is electric.
"Give me permission. Let me in. Let me have you. It's been too long, so long. I've been so alone, so parched of love. Free me, let me be free with you. Say it, say that I can take you." She moans, her cold fingers stroke my hardening penis as it presses against her abdomen.
"I--I--" I can only stammer. Her long, supple fingers are gliding over my cock as if coated in oil. Her skin is so smooth, her breath on my lips smells like spices and cinnamon. She hugs me, squeezing against me, there's a groan brimming with sexual frustration.
"Let me out!" She sobs--it's a haunting, distant sound.
"Let me out!" She cries, this time more forceful, angry. "Call for me!" She strokes me harder.
"What? How? Let you out from where?" I'm falling for her again, like the other times, her body feels so irresistible. I know I shouldn't be, there's something off about her. The dream me doesn't care about her inky eyes, her freezing skin, her demands. It's just a dream after all. My rules, my playground, my mind. But somehow this dream feels different. Am I the one in control? Or is she?
The woman stops teasing me when I ask my question. She backs away, watching between my legs devilishly. My cock throbs, begging for the return of her hands.
"The important question." She says. Gone is the distant haunting echo of her voice. This part of the dream is different, before she'd keep demanding more and more forcibly until I woke with a start.
"I need you." She says, pouting.
I rack my mind, I'm starting to feel more lucid. Is this a lucid dream? Oh my god, I'm dreaming, I'm in a dream but... I'm aware. "Are you doing this? Are you real?" I ask hesitantly.
"Yes silly." Her laugh sounds angelic, "I'm just as real as you, and it's been so long since I was free of this place." She looks around the bathroom. I realize that it's the bathroom in the apartment I'm renting in Queens. An old building with walls whose paint is peeling. The bathroom is grimier than I remember, the sink is coated in a dark slime, and thick grey strands of snotty looking cobwebs fill the corners and stretch along the walls. The reflection in the mirror is the bathroom as I know it. Cleaned to the best of my ability, presentable. Not like here, it looks like a mirror universe of my bathroom.
"Are you a ghost? A spirit? Haunting this place?" I ask. Ridiculous, I'm aware, but it is a dream, and her ghostly visage and sudden appearance fits the bill. Maybe if I can please whatever subconscious part of myself is conjuring her up, I can stop being woken up in the middle of the night. It's worth a shot to play along.
"I have a name you know."
"Sorry. What's your name?"
"Lilia." She says.
"That's a pretty name."
"Thank you." She smiles, the act looks foreign to her, as though she does not remember entirely how to smile.
"Why do you need me?" I ask.
"Because your mind is fresh. Because you might listen long enough." She turns her back to me, the curve of her back tapers down to the round athletic swell of her buttocks and thighs. A short layer of hair frames the dark, enticing mound of her vulva. I gulp, she's like a sculpture, the perfect woman. Lilia steps into the shower, turning on the steaming hot water. Sighing as steam begins to fill the small room.
"Spirit spirit spirit." She says after a moment of silent washing.
"I'm not sure what you mean. You're a spirit then?" I say. Watching her reach for the soap.
"A ghost, a spirit." Another musical laugh, "I died here. Drunk. I wanted a tub, but I slipped, hit my head. I drowned." She looks at me with her cold black eyes. It's like a scene from a horror movie, but I'm transfixed. A shiver runs down my back. "I watch them come, I watch them go. Old, unwilling, tired, they only stay for fleeting moments. Not long enough to call out, not like you."
Part of me wants to run. This is starting to feel too eerie, even for dream me.
"What can I do to help?" I ask. She's running the soap over her breasts, under her armpits.
"I loved to... meet people? When I was alive. To fuck." She tastes the words in savory bites. Her hands are on her thighs, I watch them go lower. "Sex. Men... sometimes women. Whenever I could, all the time. I was a maniac, a nym-pho-maniac?" Lilia grins at me. Her words are growing more coherent by the second.
"They aren't open to new ideas, not like you are. I think that maybe you would help me."
"Help you how?" I move closer, this is my dream, and I want to be inside her. My heart is pounding in my ears, my cock twitches, eager for her.
"It was my addiction, my being. Now it is all I am. The hunger keeps building, changing me, making me not me. It scares me, keeps me here, years without living sensation. Maybe you can understand, maybe we can share it, maybe you can free me from this... corruption of my soul." Lilia presents herself to me, bending over to reveal the deep, inviting pink of her slit as water runs over her body. I groan, gripping my cock as I reach her. I feel so hard, harder than I've ever been. I push inside her, and she cries out in ecstasy. I moan, thrusting my hips to push deeper inside. She's tight, her insides are still cool, but it isn't unpleasant. The water is warm as it soaks me.