The Monster Is Me

Date: 10/21/2017

All that I can remember was running for my life, from the shadows. Not because of the shadows themselves, but because of what lied in the shadows. A monster. Perhaps a demon actually, that took form of shadows as a disguise, a stakeout to prey on its victims. I tried to hide in places that were filled with light, and eliminated all presence of any shadows. However, the growing battle between light versus darkness muddled my rational thinking as my fear of the demon grew. I started looking for places that had a stronger hold in barricades, as the demon kept finding me, rather than places that were empty (therefore there wouldn't be objects to emit shadows) and bright. I made the fatal mistake of hiding in a messy closet. What happened next is gone, the film clip of my demise got taken out of the feature. When the film continued, I saw two hellhounds. One of them was me, with my face vertically split open in half to form a mouth. I was the monster all along. The film clip of what happens next is also gone. Next, when I regained consciousness I was on a vast field of tan rock with hot springs. For some reason I didn't believe that I was on Earth. All of the hot springs contained holy water, that I tried to dive into for a reason that I can't recall. I attempted to dive into the water. Then I started to float away from the ground. In that moment as I kept getting higher I realized I was in a nightmare and tried to wake up but I couldn't. I felt my heart pound in my sleep as I anticipated what would happen if I kept going. In previous dreams I never got to experience what would've happened because I always woke up when this occurred, but not this time. It finally happened, to my relief I hit a padded ceiling. I was still terrified because I was paranoid it would disappear and I couldn't get back to the ground. To my despair I realized it suspiciously looked like I was in an experimental setting, I wondered why there was a white padded ceiling but no walls, but it wasn't that there weren't any walls they just could've been glass walls were my reasoning. Before anything else happened the rest of the film faded into nothing. I was in an unconscious limbo and dreamt of nothing until I realized I was awake.