Digital art, A dream demon torments a person by manipulating their dreams, leading them to encounter their deceased grandpa who seems to be controlled by a sinister force, causing the dreamer to desperately fight back in an intense battle of wills and emotions.

Dream demon forcing sleep/wake inception and seeing my grandpa in my dream for the first time

Date: 10/25/2023

By Ether_Erebus

I was taking a mid- day nap and had the wildest fucking dream. I was in my dream, going to sleep IN the dream in my parents room and my brother was saying “stop, she keeps biting me, leave me alone” And I woke him up by calling his name and he said thank you for waking him up. Beside him was our grandpa but something was wrong - sinister. He woke up but he wasn’t talking really, i asked him if he was okay, and he said something but I knew it was some sort of sleep daemon that was controlling him or something. Anyway, I picked up by brother and moved him into the bed I was sleeping on, and hugged him close to me to get him to go back to bed and away from the thing controlling our grandpa. And I put him there and it spoke out loud to me “you can’t save them all” and I was like “alright, what do you want then?” And idk what to said BUT it was fucking annoying and I was getting mad. It kept trying to put me back to sleep IN the dream when I was already asleep. At some point, I asked what she/it wanted and i pushed a laptop towards it but It didn’t reply. Then, In my dream I woke up falsely and my mom was there, in my room at my desk telling me she heard me saying “take the laptop and give me my grandpa”. But I knew something was wrong since I still couldn’t open my eyes and the room felt bigger than it actually was. I forced myself to wake up still in the dream and I was like holding these balls that looked like ball-hockey orange balls but softer. Anyways, I was so mad and remember like falling asleep in the dream and not being able to see the demon. I grabbed my grandpa, and he was flickering between multiple people and I put the thing in a choke hold. I then, somehow got really really angry, and started pulling those hockey ball things out of the air and just launching them at the demon. The nightmare kept going and I kept being unable to open my eyes, the demon kept flickering, I kept firing and I then forced myself to wake up after realizing I couldn’t open my eyes after “falling asleep” in the dream. Idk, I lost my grandpa a week ago and this is the first time he’s made it to my dreams. He didn’t say much but the dream was a nightmare and when I woke up, it was a weird feeling.