When You Sleep, I Watch

In the darkness of night, when you are hidden and tucked under blankets. Fighting for sanity in your dreams. I come for you. A dream, the worst of all. Black and White, red and colorful. I follow you.

In the form of a snake I wriggle.

As a kid I was paranoid of the dark, like most people. I was always scared of the shadows in darkness. I would hardly ever sleep because every time I closed my eyes I thought that I saw in my nightmare. Now I have gotten over it, but it's still vivid in my head as if real.

I prefer to call this nightmare " Unnamed" or " Cursed Name" and sometimes " Unspeakable." I was really creative. So, I fell asleep and my dream grasped me before any other could.

Everything was black. A giggling girl's echo chased every corner of the room. I couldn't figure out why she was giggling, or where she was at. So I sat there, waiting for her to explain or to show herself. But she didn't she kept giggling. And sometimes she would whisper things in a breathe. I could feel her close, but I didn't know where.

Finally I called out. " Hello? Why are you giggling? What's so funny?" And I remember it, her raspy voice, the smile in it. She paused giggling. Then very quietly she said, " You're going to die! There coming for you!" And she continued giggling.

Who, I thought and as of she heard my thoughts she paused and answered, " All of them." Then I remember her, she turned toward her eyes flashing red. " All of them will come!" psychopath.

I started running, but hand grabbed my legs, tripping me. I turned around and started kicking. Then I saw it. I screamed and clawed at the stone around me until my fingers bled. But the blood wasn't red, it was black. I could feel the pain as it clawed up my legs.

I turned around and started to frantically hit it. It opened it's jaws wide. It looked like a Gill Man from Black Lagoon. And then I screamed as it shoved my face in it's mouth. And I woke up.