Watcher

\\TW: gore//

I have reoccurring nightmares, as I have for the past few years. They are the typical night terrors, drowning, getting lost, being stalked, e.t.c. However, One dream I have is not something I'd wish on any.

It always starts off in a dark room. There is a path of dim light between me and this thing, this creature haunts me. It is tall but hunched over, and it looks starved, sharp bones and bones that look like they were shoved last moment beneath its sickly grey skin jut out. The creature will change every so often; sometimes, it has a torn mouth and other times, it is mouthless. Sometimes, its eyes are wrapped, and other times they aren't. Its eyes are like pits of lifeless energy. I can't explain with words exactly how strange and inhuman its simultaneously human eyes look. Regardless the dream always goes the same.

It creeps towards me. For the longest time, I could never see its hands, but now that I have, I greatly wish I never had. It will slowly walk towards me until its face nearly touches mine, then it will just stare, and all I can see is its haunting eyes. Sometimes it will tear me apart, and other times it will just heavily breathe as it stares. As I said earlier, I couldn't see its hands, but now that I can, I see in its hands, it's holding a heavily mutilated cat. I genuinely don't know how my mind can tell me what that looks like, as I have never seen a cat that is, quite literally, torn apart. It's a sickening thing to see.

I've been having this dream for about a year now, and nothing seems to make it go away, I've gotten used to it almost now, but this dream used to bring me a great amount of mental unrest whenever I had I'd refuse to go back to sleep for fear of coming face to face with it again.