Nightmare

Darkness

I think I was five when it started to happen. I remember I was in my bed and my whole body started to tingle like electricity I just brushed it off and went to sleep-only to wake up in my room unable to breathe or move, unable to call my mom. A dark shadow figure appeared in my doorway looking down at me. I was desperate to get out of whatever grip this shadow thing had on me. The shadow creature circled my bed and I thought i was going to die. It then sat on my bed, Bringing its dark hands up to my face covering my eyes. It then leaned in closer. And a dark, horse, whisper of a little girl said- "You know me." I jolted up and looked around and started to cry I had called my mom who put it off as a nightmare and comforted me in place of where the shadow had once sit next to me.

It had happened almost every night after that, slightly different each time, more shadows, blobs, red eyed cats, angry old ladies. But the worst, was the hat man. He was the most scary-the darkest shadow of them all, A tall dark shadow but with a hat. He was the boss. Every night I prayed just one more night please let me live, don't let them hurt me please make them go away. It never worked really-they always came. I knew it when the tingles happen-whenever I get that electricity goes through me, and i see colors. That's when I know they are going to visit me that night.

They stopped for awhile when I was about 7. I just always assumed everyone got them too, that they were just regular nightmares. I had a few ways to avoid it by this time, for example leaving the TV or radio on. I learned not to sleep on my back the hard way as they climb on top of me and push me down.

I usually stayed away from people at school as most people did not like me, I had a small handful of people who i sometimes sat at lunch with sometimes but mostly I focused on school itself.