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My mind racing, heart pounding, legs begging for rest. The darkness that consumed me whole scared me to death. It’s like drowning in the ocean, you don’t know what’s up or down.
No one is there, no one is behind me I thought. But I knew there was someone, there always is. That’s how it happens, usually. Darkness, fear, nothingness. A nightmare is like that, right? Yes, it is. I have been in thousands, millions maybe!
I know what your thinking…what the hell is he talking about? That’s exactly what I thought when I heard what I am. What I have to do. I’m a Dream catcher. No not a little Indian thing you hang next to your bed, a human. Well close to a human.
I go through dreams, but more likely nightmares. I’m the thing that wakes you up. You know when your about to fall off a cliff and you burst awake? That’s all me. I make it so you don’t have to endure the pain of death. The torture of facing what you know is an absolute in a human life.
But when I do get to go to a dream I’m the thing that lets you sleep that last five minutes. I add that little something that makes your day. Dreams are pretty much the only reason I still want to be alive. Like I have a choice.
Nightmares are the in between. Dreams are the place you want to end up. I see the things that you don’t want to, and don’t get the chance to. I protect you from the pain and give you the paradise, the heaven of your dreams. No pun intended.
But something is happening. Something is coming into my world. I’m losing control of the dreams and even worse the nightmares. It’s creeping into the dream world. I don’t know what it is or what it’s doing. I just know that I don’t want it here and you shouldn’t either.
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