Horror Stories

Falling

We've all felt it.

You're up late, working, studying, reading. It doesn't matter what you're doing. It's the feeling you get. You're tired, your eyes burn and have the gritty feeling you get after not sleeping for a while.

Ok you can't crawl into bed right now, but close your eyes for a couple minutes? Try to get a little moisture back into your eyes. That couldn't hurt anything right?

Then, you're falling. Like stepping off a cliff, you're in a free fall, though your body isn't even moving.

Then, like a bungee cord snapping back, you're jerking awake, heart thumping a little faster, blinking quickly wondering what happened.

Doctors call it hypnagogic jerk, a natural reaction they say, to your brain thinking you're dying, when you're breathing and heartrate slow as you fall asleep.

What doctors don't know is that your brain is right. Every time you let yourself nod off, every time you feel that 'falling' sensation... you're not falling. You're been pulled down.

And one day... your brain won't be able to pull you back up.

They will have you.

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It's been 3 days since the day I "wrote" that and I came back to tell you that all the nights after I wrote that, I felt it...