Don't push the switch

Date: 1/21/2018

You find yourself in a room. The room is large, but has nearly no discerning features. The walls are dark grey, and the only things in the room are a chair, a figure and a door. The chair is black, with thin spindly legs, and in it sits a man made of metal. His spine, arms and legs seem to be made of steel piping or small interlinking steel pieces, but his hands and feet seem to be made of lumps of black metal and do not match. His torso seems to be made of an accumulation of cubes of this metal, in different shapes and sizes, creating a surreal asymmetrical silhouette. His head seems to be a small face made of scrap metal (also black) and is topped by an enormous hat made of the same cubes of black metal. (Figure causes same surreal feeling as looking at the librarian and sphinx from 'Mirrormask'). This figure pays no attention to you, but rises and walks over to the door. The door is plain and has no handle. He fiddles with something at the wall next to the door, and when he steps back, it's revealed he has built a small metal flick switch. He flicks the switch, the door opens and he steps through the door. Not a moment after he steps through the door, he hurriedly walks back through it and quickly walks back to his seat, muttering to himself frantically. The door closes behind him. He repeats this process a few times, walking to the door, flicking the switch, walking through the door and then quickly returning to his seat while muttering. Eventually you decide to try the door. You sneak along the edge of the room til you reach the door, flick the switch, and walk through the door. The figure pays you no mind, and simply sits in his chair silently. The door closes behind you. This room is even bigger, it has white walls and is well lit. But along one side of the room are a pair of huge industrial doors covered with lights and signs. There is a single yellow switch in the centre. There is a girl across the room from you, she seems passive and as you walk to the door, she joins you. She says nothing, but you share a look that says "we're in this together now". You both walk right up to the door and look at the switch for a while, trying to decide whether or not to flick it. You suddenly decide to just do it, and when you do, an alarm starts to go off and the doors slowly begin to part. You instantly realise that this was a mistake, you grab your new companion and you both stand flat against one of the doors and watch has thousands of horrors emerge from the doors. Silent hill creations come tearing out screeching and moaning, huge animals bigger than houses make the ground shake as they come stampeding through the doors, murderous clowns and famous serial killers, zombies and werewolves, shrieking banshees and long thin creatures with fast legs and smashing teeth; all of them come tearing through the door. They don't notice you but you are both frozen in fear as you watch them all burst forth from the seemingly endless room behind the doors. Eventually, you come to your senses and you both work to try and hit the switch again to shut the doors and stop the endless supply of creatures. It takes several attempts but you eventually manage to flick it again, and as if they were being sucked into a vacuum, the monsters are one by one sucked back into the darkness, clawing at the ground and protesting as they are forced back into containment. (See 'Jumanji' 1995) Just as the doors are sealed shut, you awaken.