When you wake

It’s a terrible feeling. You inhale loud and sit up straight, or maybe you feel like you just fell to where you lay. Adrenaline is coursing through you, and you can feel the pulse of your heart as speeds in its rhythm. Your eyes are wide and alert, and there is sweat slick on the skin. There is a breeze and you can feel each hair on your skin and the goosebumps form along your flesh. After this moment you begin to think. It was only a dream, a nightmare. You look around and try to process where you are. Reassure yourself that everything is fine. You are back to your regular life. The problem with that moment of when you regain clarity is that the true horror begins: this is worse.