Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26832005-20150729015339

The frequency of my nightmares has been getting worse. I blame the stress from my work and I complained to my friends about my nightmares, but my friends tell me it's nothing to worry about because it's all about my perception and how I perceive my dreams. My friends don’t understand fear is like pain and I’ve been having a lot of pain lately. I have not been able to sleep because I'm really scared of going to sleep. I decided to go to work the next day without sleeping. After another day working, I was really glad to be back home and I took a shower immediately. Afterwards I tried to calm myself down with some milk and I couldn't stand being tired, so I decided to go to sleep right away. After a stressful day I was finally able to get some shut eye. After closing my eyes, I went to sleep right away. While I was sleeping I heard a weird noise that sounded like a reactor and I woke up immedietly. When I got up I was in the hallway of a weird lab with a bunch of glass containers that looked like cryogenic pods on both sides of the hallway. It didn’t take long for me to realize I was having another nightmare and I knew I was still sleeping. It usually takes a lot longer for me to find out I’m still sleeping in these false awakening dreams. But this time it took less than a minute. The nightmares I really hate are the false awakenings. I hate it when I wake up in my sleep and I still have free will in my sleep, usually I don't find out it was all a dream until after I wake up. But it's better to know ahead, so I at least know not to take anything seriously. The best way to know if it's a false awakening or not is to look out for signs that signal something might be wrong such as seing cryogenic pods in a lab. The dreams I hate more than the false awakenings are the dreams that are a continuation of a previous dream. During these dreams I don’t know what to do other than to beg and hope I wake up soon. After waitng for over 10 minutes I realized I had to look around and find an exit out of this nighmare myself. I looked around the lab and when I looked inside the glass pods there were weird figures that looked like people. All of the figures looked exactly the same and on the glass containers were labels that had names of countries from around the world. Above the glass pods were monitors that showed an ugly clown killing people in various ways. I've always hated clowns since my childhood and I always thought they were creepy. After searching the lab I couldn't find anything useful so I decided to go into a different hallway and when I turned into the next hallway I paniced when I saw the same clown in person. “Like my work? I collect people from all around the world and I preserve them my special way so they all look the same. I’m almost done my collection but I’m missing some people from a few countries such as Iceland” said the clown. I almost had a heart attack when he said Iceland, I have no idea how he knows I'm from Iceland but I also need to remember none of this is real. I can't let this ugly clown make me think all of this is real and try to fill me with fear to make this nightmare worse. “But I will let you go if you win my carnival games. If you don’t then you become a permanent display for my Iceland trophy case” said the clown. I don’t have much of a choice in these nightmares, so my only option is to agree to his games. I know from my childhood that carnival games were rigged so I know right away he is going to cheat. I just hope I can delay him long enough for me to wake up. "The first game I want you to play my dear, is hitting rubber ducks with these rubber balls. All you have to do is hit 20 ducks" said the clown. I did not have a good feeling about this, because I knew they always changed the mass of the ball so there would be no way to predict how the ball would fly in carnivals. After throwing 3 balls I hit the duck everytime and I was really surprised to be really good at his game. After hitting 20 ducks I was really happy I won the first round. I felt like a kid again, but I was still scared because I anticipated his games would get harder after this. "You're very skilled my dear, but you still have two more rounds to go. The second round will be popping balloons with darts" said the clown. I knew from my childhood that they always under inflated the balloons so it would deflect the darts and the tips of the darts were always dull. I was scared but I wanted all of this to be over so I threw my first dart and I hit the balloon right away. After throwing 3 more darts I was surprised again to be amazingly skilled at dart throwing. I was better in my dream than in real life. After popping all his balloons I was really happy and I really did feel like a kid again. "Good job kid, the last and final game will be ring toss. Good luck" said the clown. When he said Good luck I had a bad hunch right away. I remember from my childhood that plastic rings were more likely to bounce around than loop around the bottles so I was a bit nervous about this one. After throwing the rings, again I was good at his own game and I finally beat him. "I played your stupid games and now I demand you get me out of here because I really don’t want to be anywhere near you" I said. “One last question, this is a question anyone can answer and I’m sure you will able to answer this question. If you know the answer to this then you can kill me and you will be free to go. How do you kill a circus clown?” asked the clown. “I don't know, I think you can die like anyone else” I said. “That’s where your wrong young lady, everyone knows you go for the juggler” said the clown. “What? That’s not fair, you cheated! I don't know your stupid jokes” I said. I got really angry and I don’t think I have ever been so furious in my life. “It was nice meeting you my dear but you lose, now step into my preserving chamber” said the clown. “I am not stepping in there you psychopath” I said. “We can do this the hard way or the easy way” said the clown. I saw he had a paintball gun on the counter of one of the carnival games, so I grabbed it and I fired it at his ugly face. I don’t know why my dream wasn’t helping me here, but it had no effect on him. He then pulled out a large hammer and said “I’ve never killed anyone with a hammer before, I think this will take a long time.” I then realized the only way out of this hell hole was to get into his glass chamber. I don't think I have ever been so miserable and upset in my life before and I just fell to the floor and cried before I remembered none of this was real. When I remembered none of this was real I got really ashamed and embarrassed. I honestly could not believe I forgot it was all a dream. So I apologized and complied to his stupid orders. After I got into the chamber, it didn’t take long before I finally woke up.  