#dark dreams

I’ve been having this reoccurring dream during that state between being awake and falling asleep. It always starts with me standing in the middle of my bedroom in the dark. I look into the standing mirror and see this figure standing behind me in the corner. It’s hard to discern details, but it looks pretty corpse-like with papery skin peeling off like wallpaper. It looks like more shreds are coming/floating out of where it’s eyes should be? It’s just standing there unmoving, stiffly upright and facing me. Whatever it is, each time I look behind me, it’s not there, and when I look back in the mirror, it’s there standing closer to me. Look behind, not there, look back, it’s closer, look behind, not there, look back, closer still. It gets to the point where I continuously stare at it, hoping that my gaze will keep it still, as I back up through the bedroom door to run the hell away. I close the door, shut my eyes in hopes that avoiding seeing anything reflective will save me, and blindly make my way out.

Bonus: One time when I was more lucid, I tried to turn the dream around to be more positive by asking if it needed help. It didn’t answer, it just continued to stand there unmoving. So I asked it if it had a name. Then this incoherent noise blasted in my head that sounded like someone had turned a TV on and was changing channels really fast. The noise didn’t stop until I woke up.