by T.Tillman

Created on: May 02, 2008

I never know how it all starts, but I always remember how they end and the feelings that I fee at that exact moment, but first let me start of at the very moment when it seems that I've just woke up in dreamland, only this is not a sweet dream.

It can be dark or light out, the scene nor the time of the day are important, but what is important is what I have to do in every dream.

And that would be to run and hide, it seemed like I would be running for hours in there's night terrors of mine, always being found but some how getting out of harms way just in time. While I'm running my surroundings change frequently, the fact that someone/something is chasing/ following goes unchanged.

I can only remember one of these nightmares when I was running down a fight of stairs that seemed to go on & on & on,

my younger sister is in front of me and I am on her heels, I have an ax in my hand. I keep looking back but every time I see nothing, but the emotion that I am feeling is a degree of fear that I have felt before. When we finally get down the stairs we are standing in a room the shape of a sphere, there are no doors or windows, it is dark and so cold that i could see my own breathe. I shove my sister behind me and we wait, I stand in the middle of the room ready for whatever it is that I was running from/ ready to protect my sister the best that I could.

I'm there anticipating the moment when I will have to hold my ground, but no appears. I wait and wait and wait, but nothing happens.

I awake with many questions circling my mind, I really don't know what to think. When I first started having dreams like this I immediately went to look up the reasons why this might be happening and also, what I can do to make it all stop. In many articles, and books about dreams say that I'm running from something that I'm afraid of in reality and to stop running and to confront the fear.

I've done that twice so far and both times it didn't work, besides the nightmare that I just told you about one of them, but the next is even more strange because when I do turn around to face my "fear", it keeps coming and grabs ahold of me and I have to fight to get away. Now that was one thing that i didn't read about in many articles/ books on this subject.

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