On Friday Night, I Dreamed Of My Husband Standing in a Cemetery — I Woke up to a Call from the Hospital

After dreaming of her husband in a graveyard, June wakes to a chilling call from the hospital, only to discover a terrifying truth in her own backyard. As reality blurs with something greater, she must confront love, death, and the miracle that just might have saved them both.

I dreamt in grey that night.

The air was still, thick with fog, the kind that sits on your chest like memory. I was walking through a cemetery I didn't recognize, but my feet knew where to go. Gravel crunched softly beneath each step. Somewhere nearby, wind chimes clinked out of rhythm.

My heart beat too loudly.

And then... Wyatt, my husband.

He was standing by a grave I couldn't read, hands in his coat pockets, eyes locked on me. He didn't speak. He didn't need to. He just lifted one hand and waved, slow and deliberate.

"Wyatt?" I called out, stepping closer. "What are you doing here?"

But before he could answer...

The ringing started.

I gasped awake, heart lurching as my eyes scanned the dark. Wyatt wasn't next to me. His side of the bed was still smooth, still cold. I fumbled for my phone, my body caught between sleep and panic.

Unknown number.

"Hello?" I answered with a voice that barely belonged to me.

A woman's voice. Cold, clipped, and clinical.

"Good evening, ma'am. I'm sorry to inform you but your husband..."

The words hung there, suspended in the air like fog. My mouth went dry.

"What? What do you mean? Wyatt's... he's supposed to be home. He worked the late shift, but... he should be home now!"

"I... I'm so sorry. I believe I've called the wrong number. Please forgive me," she paused.

She hung up before I could speak again.

I sat in the dark, heartbeat pounding, mind racing. I checked the time. 4:17 A.M. Wyatt's shift should've ended an hour ago. No call. No text. I swung my legs out of bed, headed to the kitchen for water, anything to calm the tremble taking over my hands.

Everything felt like a fever dream.

Then I saw him.

Through the kitchen window, the moonlight catching something wrong. Wyatt was floating face down in our backyard pool.

My scream caught in my throat.

For a second, I couldn't move. I couldn't breathe. Then instinct tore through me. I flung the sliding door open so hard it banged against the frame and sprinted across the wet grass, barefoot, skin raw against the cold.

I saw him... Wyatt... floating face down. Still. Silent. Wrong.

"No, no, no, Wyatt!" I shrieked, slipping on the edge of the pool as I fell to my knees. I grabbed my phone with shaking hands, nearly dropping it twice before I managed to hit 911.

"Emergency services, what's your emergency?"

"My husband, he's not breathing! He's in the pool! I need an ambulance! Now!" I choked the words out through sobs, slamming the phone on speaker and plunged both arms into the water to drag him out.

He was heavy. Too heavy. Like the world had already started claiming him.

His body hit the pavement with a sickening thud. His skin was icy, lips an unnatural blue. His chest didn't rise. His eyes didn't flutter.

"No! No, no, no! Wyatt! Don't you do this! You're not allowed to leave me!"

I started compressions, my palms slipping with water.

"One, two, three, four... come back to me! Wyatt!"

I did mouth to mouth. Nothing. Again.

Again.

"Please, Wyatt. Please, my love. Don't leave me!"

There was absolute silence. And then, a gasp.

Wet and broken and glorious. He sputtered, coughed, water spilling from his mouth as his body jerked, life fighting its way back in.

I sobbed, bent over him, my forehead on his chest. The sirens grew louder. Red and blue lights broke through the night.

He was alive. My husband was alive...

At the hospital, I sat in that too-white waiting room, arms wrapped tight around myself, my damp sweater clinging like a second skin. The cold of the tiles bled through the soles of my shoes.

The taste of fear sat stubborn at the back of my throat. Everything around me was too quiet, muted footsteps, whispers behind curtains, the hollow hum of vending machines no one used.

Time didn't pass. It pulsed.

Finally, a doctor appeared. Her scrubs were wrinkled, her eyes rimmed in exhaustion. But there was something kind in them, something that cut through the static.

"He's stable, June," she said gently. "You saved his life."

I exhaled, but it came out more like a shudder.

"But," she continued. "We discovered something else. Your husband has a serious heart condition. It's likely gone undetected for years."

I nodded, but the words didn't settle. They just hovered.

"He's lucky you acted when you did," she said.

Lucky. Lucky...

I stood, legs moving without instruction, drifting toward the reception desk as if pulled. I asked for water, barely hearing my own voice.

The woman turned and I froze.

Her voice was steady. Gentle. And unmistakable.

The same voice from the call. The one that said he was dying.

"You called me earlier," I said, the words sticky in my mouth. "About my husband..."

"I didn't make any calls, ma'am. I've been here all night. I just finished a twelve-hour shift. Your husband is my last patient before I head home."

I stared at her. The same voice. The same cadence. But now... it was softer. Warmer. Real.

The air shifted. My skin prickled.

What had woken me? What had pulled me from that dream? Who or what had warned me? Pushed me toward the window? Toward Wyatt?

And why her voice?

It wasn't fear I felt then. It was awe.

Something had come for me in the dark. And it hadn't come to take. It had come to save.

Wyatt was sleeping, hooked up to quiet monitors that blinked steady green lines across the screen. His chest rose and fell with a rhythm I'd never stop being grateful for.

I kissed his forehead, whispered that I'd be right back, and slipped out of the room.

The hospital corridors were still dim, night clinging to the corners like smoke. I followed the smell of something warm until I found the cafeteria. It was half-closed with limited options. But that was all I needed.

I bought a lukewarm coffee and a muffin I knew I wouldn't finish. It wasn't about the food. It was about feeling human again. About grounding myself in something as ordinary as bitter coffee and stale blueberry.

I sat by the window for a while, staring out at the streetlights, watching the world keep turning.

But the quiet didn't last. I stood, aimless, my legs pulling me down a hallway I didn't mean to take.

The sign said: Psychiatry & Counselling.

And suddenly, it felt like exactly where I needed to be.

I knocked on the door of the only office with a light still on. A middle-aged woman with kind eyes and soft curls looked up.

"Can I help you?" she asked gently.

"I don't know," I whispered. "I think I need someone to tell me I'm not crazy."

She ushered me in without a second thought.

I told her everything. Everything. The cemetery dream. The call. Wyatt in the pool. The receptionist's voice. The warning. My voice cracked more than once.

When I finished, she didn't laugh. She didn't even blink.

"June," she said slowly. "What happened to you was terrifying and beautiful. I can't say it was a guardian angel or your intuition screaming through a dream. But maybe it doesn't matter."

"But how would I know?" I swallowed hard. "Before anything even happened?"

"Because love does that, June," she said simply. "Sometimes your mind picks up on things your body hasn't caught yet. Your subconscious knew. And maybe... something else did too."

I stared at her, tears slipping down my cheeks.

"You were never alone," she added.

And for the first time in hours, I let myself believe that was true.

I thanked her. Not with words, but with the way my shoulders finally dropped and my breath came easier. Maybe I'd never understand what happened. But I didn't need to.

Wyatt was alive. And I was still standing.

The therapist's words clung to me long after I left her office.

I walked the hospital halls in a daze, my coffee cold in my hand. I passed the paediatric ward, the nurses' station, the vending machine that buzzed too loudly. Everything felt sharp around the edges, like the world hadn't quite forgiven me for almost losing it all.

When I reached the door to Wyatt's room, I froze.

The heart monitor beeped steady. His chest rose, slow but sure. And then, his eyes opened. Just a crack. But enough.

"June," he rasped, voice a broken thread of sound.

I dropped the coffee. It rolled across the floor, forgotten.

"I'm here," I whispered, rushing to his side, fingers curling around his. "I'm here."

"You pulled me out?" his gaze found mine, glassy and confused.

I nodded, tears already slipping.

"I remember..." he swallowed hard. "I was standing somewhere. I don't know where. It was cold, and... it felt like I was being called. Like something was pulling me."

My breath caught.

"I turned around," he continued. "And I saw you. Not really, but like a shadow of you. You were crying. And I couldn't leave you."

I couldn't speak. I just held his hand tighter, as if afraid the memory might pull him back.

Later, after they sedated him to rest, I found the nearest empty bathroom and locked the door behind me.

I collapsed against the sink, breath ragged. I stared at my reflection, skin sallow, lips cracked, eyes red and wild. I didn't recognize myself. I didn't want to.

I let it come.

The sob that ripped from me wasn't delicate. It was raw. Guttural. The sound of fear finally being allowed to scream. I cried for the version of him that didn't make it. For the woman I nearly became. For the breath that didn't come. For the grave I saw in my dream.

I cried until my knees hit the floor and I tasted salt in the back of my throat.

He almost died.

And I almost didn't make it back from that dream.

When the tears slowed, I wiped my face with the edge of my sleeve. I sat there on the cold tiles, shaking but breathing.

A memory surfaced, unexpected.

A few months ago, I'd been cooking dinner when Wyatt leaned against the kitchen counter, watching me stir pasta.

"If I ever die before you," he'd said out of nowhere. "You better not meet anyone else. I swear I'll haunt your butt."

"You? A ghost?" I'd laughed.

"I'd be the most annoying one. Like... lights flickering, cold toes, the works."

"Why?" I asked.

"Because you're mine," he grinned. "And I'd want you to save me. Even if I was already gone."

At the time, I rolled my eyes. Told him to stop being morbid. He just kissed my forehead and went back to his phone.

And now? That stupid, offhand joke was a weight in my chest.

Because maybe that's what happened. Maybe he really had one foot gone. Maybe I really did save him.

And maybe love really is loud enough to scream across worlds.

Wyatt sleeps now, safe in a hospital bed, his hand curled in mine like nothing else in the world matters. And maybe nothing does.

Now we will fight for my husband's life. But I couldn't help but share the miracle that happened to me.

I can't call it anything else.

What would you have done?

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