Nightmare of my childhood

Date: 10/24/2017

I had a nightmare as a kid where I was trying to go to the basement to find my brother, but this red, evil looking creature/man stopped me at the door at the foot of the stairs. I don't think he had horns, necessarily, but I remember him being very "angular" in an unnatural way. He kept asking me if I would play a game with him. I didn't want to, and I told him that. He said he wouldn't let me pass unless I did. I still refused him. I turned to leave, but then he said I couldn't go back upstairs either. Now he'd trapped me (with those toddler gate things, but at the time those were about as big as me) and kept berating me to play his game. Somehow I knew his game, whatever it was, was evil and some sort of trap. I started crying, saying I wanted to leave. He told me that if I didn't play his game, he would make me feel alone forever. Then, I did start to feel it, whatever he was doing. It was this strange, supernatural, overwhelming feeling of aloneness, and emptiness, hopelessness. It was deep inside of me and I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs. It hurt, but it was nothing, and the nothingness was what hurt. I kept shouting at him that he wasn't real, and eventually I wrenched myself out of the nightmare and woke up. I've hated that dream to this day.