(text-color:"grey")[You get excited as you find your favorite movie- FINAL DESTINATION 3- but then the strangest things happens.
Not only does the TV screen go white and fuzzy B U T . . .
Your eyelids are suddenly beginning to feel heavy now. ]
(text-style: "blur")[Suddenly, you can't remember just what you were worrying about or doing ...]
(text-style: "expand")[(text-color: "grey")[(text-style: "blurrier")[Darkness surrounds you all so suddenly. You are [[no where but trapped in your own mind |Enter dream]].]]](align: "=><==")[(text-style: "fade-in-out")[(text-style: "Smear")[(if: $timesDreamed is 0) [
[[...|Home]]
]
(else-if: $timesDreamed is 1)[
[[...|Dream two]]
]
(else:)[
[[...|Home]]
]]]]<img src="https://goo.gl/images/yVu9Fz.svg"width="500" height="400">
(align: "=><==")(text-color:"grey")[It's raining out and you are startled by wind howling in the night . You're in kitchen heating up some popcorn and hear *clack,clack clack* on the [[Front Porch]]
You hear your grandma's voice from upstairs as she yells, "Honey, can you check what that noise was?"
As you begin slowly begin to walk, you feel a strong breeze and realize the door has been left open.
From across the street you find an awkward old man standing through the fog but is awkwardly smiling at you. You stare at him for a few moments..
[[//>Check outside surroundings, lock the door, & walk back into the house//|Enter the House]]](text-color:"grey")[Ahhh, growing up that was your favorite place. You would riding your bike down the street and your parents would be on the porch waiting with your ice cold lemonade. Riding through, watching the trees sway in the calm wind. This was the place where you could be truly free in thought... we were a happy family.
[[<<|Home]] ]“If you are worried about your grandmother's well-being, just bring her to me and we can enjoy heaven together.”
[[continue]]
[[End dream]]The idea of talking to the dead seemed absurd...
(text-style:"blur")[Suddenly, you think to yourself you might be dead and in heaven...]
[[//>Wake up//|In bed]]
[[//>Keep sleeping//|Keep sleeping]]
[[//>>Go back to sleep//|Keep sleeping]]{
(set: $timesDreamed to 0)
(set: $hallwayConnector to "")
}(text-style: "shudder")[Everything is dark.
You see yourself laying on the couch ignoring the surrounding noises and drifting into sleep. ]
[(text-style: "shudder")(text-style: "subscript")(text-style: "expand")(text-style: "blur")[Something is wrong.]]
[[>>|Realization]]{
(set: $timesDreamed to $timesDreamed + 1)
}
(goto: "Enter dream")(text-color:"grey")[as you miss home you start to think to yourself..
Grandma loved grandpa dearly.
That man smiled just like grandpa... the type of smile that just gives you a sense of safety and comfort..
Now he is just a faint memory... but was this all in my head or was he really there ?
[[<<|Walk upstairs]]](text-color:"grey")[
You realize you're drifting in and out of sleep.
(text-style: "blur")[It gives you a tingling sensation; your body begins to feel numb and disoriented.]
(text-style: "blur")[You see a dark figure standing in the middle of the room...]
(text-style: "blur")[(text-style: "expand")[At this point you realize you're beginning to dream. Well at least you think...]]
[[//>Wake yourself up//|fail ]]
[[//>Continue dreaming//|lucid ]] ](align: "=><==")[<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pU3OWwT.gif" >]
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(text-color:"grey")[
Your body becomes paralyzed in an attempt to wake up.
Sirens abruptly sound in your eardrums.
It gives you goosebumps; someone or //something// begins to trudge closer to you.
[[//>Hit the shadowy figure//|shadow]]
[[//>Try to wake up//|wake up]] ]
(text-style: "shadow")[You realize you're beginning to lucid dream due to the pill you took.. you begin to see things . .]
(text-style: "shadow")[Adrenaline rushes through as you sleep walk your way through the house]
[[>>|images]](text-color:"grey")[As you see the shadowy figure, the image of your dad's mistress begins to creat once again in your head. You begin to scream at it, you grab TV control and hit the shadowy figure ; it disintergrates and leaves a gooey film on your hand.
//"Yuck!"// you begin wandering into darkness and grab a knife from the kitchen. You know someone is in here messing with you. You hear footsteps and you think that are in the room behind a white door.
[[//>Open the door//|door]] ]//"I love your father !!"// the voice in your head shouts.
//"He's all mine and is leaving you and your raggitdy mother of yours"// you're trying but you still can't move.
You scream... //"NOOOOO"// ... finally able to move.
You wake up in a sweat and questioning why you are holding a knife in your hands
Your heart is beating fast against your chest.
Thank god it was just a dream.. but you still feel uneasy about it all.
[[//>Go back to sleep//|Keep sleeping]]You open the door and walk in to find that it leads to a familiar [[room|grandfather]]
The room is cold and eerie.
There seems to be no one around...
(text-style: "blur")[(text-style: "expand")[you feel uneasy...]]
[[>//Coninue to walk around the room//|walking]]
(text-color:"grey")[You recognize being in this room many times before.
It's not somewhere you where often though.
You think harder.
Ah yes, it was your grandfather's office where he would recruit more men into the army !
You recall spending those finals moments with your grandfather in this room before he shot himself.]
[[<<|door]] You start to feel more lost.
everywhere you look, you continue to feel a breeze; the breeze seemed too stronger as you continue to explore.
(text-style: "blur")[never ending]
(text-style: "superscript")[(text-style: "blur")[never ending]]
(text-style: "superscript")[(text-style:"blurrier")[never ending...]]
[[>>|figures]](text-color:"grey")[You launch into a sprint, running from them. as you are running from them, you fall down the stairs and you managed to cut yourself with the knife...
(text-style: "blur")[//"she's losing alot of blood, but why would she try to kill herself?"... "we are doing everything we can to save her"//]
suddently, your surroundings become a blur... you suddenly black out... ]
(text-style: "blink")[(text-style: "shudder")[(text-style: "smear")[//you wake up in a white room, tied down to a hospital bed//]
(text-style: "shudder")[(text-style:"smear")[//what happened? where am i? //]]] ]
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(set: $counter to 10)You're thrilled at the thought of being able to travel anywhere, but you get triggered.
Images of the mistress of your father begin to pop up in your head..
...you are enraged and see a shadow that begins to look like her...
(text-style: "blur")[(text-style: "expand")[However you are still in an empty pitch black void.]]
(text-style: "blur")[(text-style: "expand")[Is this normally how people lucid dream or am I just full of anger and resentment ?]]
[[>//Continue to try to lucid dream//|continue]]
[[>//Wake yourself up//|wake up]]{
(set: $timesDreamed to $timesDreamed + 1)
}
(goto: "Enter dream")
The anger and resentment you feel causes your brain to go blank and you wake up.
"//Goddamnit.//" you think to yourself as you lay on the couch.
You check your phone and the clock reads [[3:30AM|time]].
You're always waking up at weird hours in the night, but then remember that your pizza should have been delivered and realize that it was already in the kitchen. But who opened the door to leave the pizza if grandma was already asleep and the door was locked ??
[[>//Go back to sleep//|Keep sleeping]]
[[>//Get out of bed and go eat your pizza//|Get out of bed]]3 AM always freaked you out, especially in grandma's house. It is just freezing cold downstairs. Mom always said that growing up, the ghost would wake her up but I'm pretty sure she said that just to mess with me.
[[<<|continue]] (text-color:"grey")[
You get out of bed to heat up some pizza [[//heat up pizza//| kitchen]]
The light was already on when you entered...weird. No one else usually uses the kitchen besides you at this time.
You begin to scope around, but something is //off//.
You hear some voices near your grandmother's room so you begin to make your way there.
[[>//Walk closer //|walk closer]] ]You tiptoe closer to the figure as your heart almost escapes your chest when you realize the old man you saw earlier is // D E A D//.
His face reminded you so much of grandpa...
(text-style: "blur")[His face had a blank expression.]
(text-style: "blur")[His eyes could hardly open.]
(text-style: "blurrier")[(text-style:"expand")[He didn't do anything to you. He never did... He was just an old man]]
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(text-color:"grey")[//"Hey!!"// a voice shouted in the distance.
You turn around to see not one, but two androngynous figures running towards you. The old man and the mistress.
You are driving yourself crazy. You grab the knife for self-defense.
[[>//Run away//|Run]] ](align: "=><==")[<img src= "https://i.imgur.com/1eEhnSX.png" >]
You wake up to you sounding off and vibrating.
It wasn't quite time to get up yet.
[[>//Get out of bed//|Get out of bed]]
[[>//Keep sleepng//|Keep sleeping]](text-color: "grey")[You decide to go home Halloween weekend, only to find out that your parents are getting a divorce. Your parents send you to your grandmother's house in the outskirts of New Orleans.]
(align: "=><==")[<img src = "https://i.imgur.com/cvmFnyH.gif" >]
(align: "=><==")[(text-style: "expand")[You begin to feel so sad...so hopless and alone...you just want to feel [[//nothing//|falling asleep]].]](font:"Creepster")[Any Horror but T H I S]
(text-style:"shudder") [ [[so the night begins]] ](text-color: "grey")[Your grandmother tried consoling you but you just ignored her, went downstairs, hoping a Halloween movie and some snacks will take your mind off everything.
You snuggle up on the couch and before opening a cold one, you pop a pill. You then realize final destination is on. But your mind begins to tell itself [[what happened]] ](text-color:"grey")[As you are in the kitchen, you make your way to the sink to wash your hands, and as you are looking through the window calmly listening to the rain, you feel someone breathing on you... and you see a shadow on the window. You grab the knife, turn around and you stab the shadowy figure.... you are wake up and start walking closer to the figure that lays on the kitchen]
[[walk closer]] (text-color:"grey")[You begin to think your deceased grandpa as that old man really looked like him... regardless you can't help but lock the door.
You lay down on the couch and begin to miss your parents.
you begin to wish that you were [[home]] ](text-color:"Grey")[ As you walk upstairs to grab another blanket from the hallway closet. You suddenly hear a scream.
You find your grandmother in your grandfather's office crying and screaming. You run to console her and find that she was just sleep walking and dreaming.
Moments after, you recieve a text from your older brother saying he was on his way over to the house because he had just caught dad with his mistress and was enraged... you begin to cry and just want to throw yourself down the stairs to end your misery
As you are about to do so.. your brother arrives and runs to you as he [[slap you to wake you up]]]]
(text-color: "grey")["DUDE WHATS YOUR PROBLEM?! This is not how you deal with life man!"
You give your brother a blank stare as you are trying to figure out what happened. "Didnt you just come from dad's?"
"No I just came from my girlfirned's place like I told you earlier, you whacko."
You then decide to go back to sleep and leave your brother alone, but you know something is not right about yourself. [[sleep]] ](text-color:"Grey")[As you doze off to sleep, you begin to hear voices that lure you into your grandfathers old office.
As you are there, you find yourself in the moment where he killed himself, chills ran down your spine. You begin to see the shadowy figure approach you.
"bring her to me" the figures says..
no one will ever know it's you and she will grateful for it. [[cont dreaming]] ]