Everything has a dark side, our dreams were meant to be a place of jubilation, and contain our most wonderful fantasies.
This is kinda like an award. Some of us work our asses off all day long, and then come home to a nice cozy bed. Sleep by itself is a nice gift for our turmoils, but dreams make sleeping hard for us to want to wake up sometimes.
But there is of course a darkside…there is always a darkside.
Nightmares have a certain way of creeping up on us when we don’t want them to…its almost like they know…
Some may say that nightmares are our own fault. Watching scary movies, or reading scary stories can fuel our nightmares.
But….what if there are things out there…that can control our dreams?
What if there are beings who can purposely give us nightmares.
What if these things are there to drive us insane…to the point where we want to sleep forever.
Now is when I tell you about my nightmares…
A couple weeks ago I started to get really into reading creepy stories. All humans have this certain want of excitement…but sometimes we take it way to far. You know what I’m talking about. Surfing videos on the internet late at night, reading creepy stories, or making our own stories.
You know how it works. You sit there, tired in front of your computer. The room is dark, the voices in your head are telling you to shut off the computer and finally get some fucking sleep. But then it happens. You find a video that has a creepy description. Perhaps a video about a ghost encounter, or a video of aliens.
This is how my nightmares started.
My friend Zack has a youtube account where he plays video games and gives them commentary. You know, a “Let’s Play.”
But one day he decided to do something different. He narrated a story off of a website called “creepypasta.com.”
I have heard of this somewhere, I know I have. Its hard to surf the interent for so many years and not hear about something so popular.
He told a story of a man called “Slender Man.” Now I had obviously heard of this character. I’ve seen the MarbleHornets videos, and I’ve seen the fan art, and the so called “pictures.”
The story was interesting, and it made me want to read more, so I did.
Within a few days, I had read all the populare stories that this website had to offer. “Squidward Suicide” “Ben Drowned” “Dead Bart” “Jeff: The Killer” “The Tails Doll” “Smile Dog” And all the Pokemon hacks.
These stories…they give you a feeling of terror. You start to notice all the small things around you, all the creaks and moans. You look over your shoulder and think you see a shadow of some sort. Nothing…huh…silly you.
You finally get the courage to go to sleep, and then you start to understand the position you just put yourself in.
I understood what I was doing to myself…but I didn’t stop.
I saw them all…I saw all the creatures from those stories in my dreams.
I saw the Smile Dog try to make me spread the word…I saw Jeff telling me to go to sleep…Squidward staring at me with his bloodshot eyes…
Jerking myself awake everytime I encountered one of these freaks got old real fast.
But then, the nightmares begin to get so much more real.
