InkofDesire1473
There are things that happen at night that do not belong fully to dreams or to waking.
Moments when the body goes still but the mind stays alert. When shadows feel deliberate. When voices sound familiar enough to answer, yet wrong enough to fear. When you are certain you are awake - and later realize you may not have been.
This book is not about monsters. It is about losing control while fully conscious.
What you will read here did not happen once, or in one place, or in one form. These experiences followed me across years, rooms, and stages of my life - changing shape, but never intent. Sometimes they whispered. Sometimes they watched. Sometimes they touched.
Every incident in this book is real as I remember it.
Some moments are clear. Others are fragments - sensations, fear, stillness, pain. Where memory faltered, emotion remained. Where certainty failed, awareness did not.
If you have ever woken unable to move, if you have ever heard your name when no one was there, if you have ever felt fear before understanding why -
this book may feel uncomfortably familiar.
And if it doesn't, read carefully.
Because once you become conscious in the dark, sleep is never entirely innocent again.
Content Warning (15+) :
This book contains intense descriptions of sleep-related experiences that may be disturbing for some readers.
Themes include fear, loss of bodily control, altered states of consciousness, and psychological distress occurring during the night.
Descriptions may trigger anxiety in readers with sleep-related disorders.
Reader discretion is advised.
Recommended for readers 15 years and older.