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Place withheld · 2012-01-28 · from the DREAMVIEWS archive

A dark figure

<PERSON> Just a very short dream of me looking for my dog. I was riding in the back seat of a car, my grandmother was driving, and my mother was in the passenger seat. We were driving through Loudonville apparently looking for my dog that ran away. We turned left onto main street and I saw my dog standing on the side walk as we turned. "Hey! I saw my dog back there!" I told them. "So?" My grandmother ask. "So let us go back there and get her?" I asked. "Fine." She said turning the car around. As she turned the car around I got that weird feeling again. That feeling where I know something bad is about to happen or there is a nightmare creature nearby. I looked out in front of us and saw a shadow man just standing there in the road. The car stopped in front of him. He did not move. He just stood there staring at us and that feeling grew stronger. Remembering that I only get this feeling in dreams I decided to plug my nose and look at my hands. I could not breathe through and my hands looked normal. I kept trying over and over again because it just did not seem right that I would be awake. The next thing I know, my grandma became impatient and ran the shadow man over. I woke up after trying another reality check. When I had awaken I could not move. I was stuck in sleep paralysis again. "Crap. Sleep paralysis again." I thought. "3, 2, 1, FLAIL!" I thought to myself before I managed to roll over. I was apparently still too tired and relaxed though because I got stuck in sleep paralysis again right after. This time I decided to see what would happen if I let it happen. I lied there for 10 seconds before it felt like someone kicked me in the spine. Then I decided to just get up for a minute to unrelax myself. End

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