User:GreenEyeDan

Have you ever felt that something was off when you slept. As if something caused you to experience dreams that were in the grey area between reality and fantasy. I'm guessing most of you would answer "yes," but you might not know exactly what I mean.

I didn't think I would ever experience something creepy, but a few weeks ago, I had a morbid experience. I haven't told my parents about it yet, I just don't know if they would believe me. Unless you've been living in a nuclear bunker for the past 10 years, you likely know of YouTube.

Ever since I was about 10 years old, I spent most of my spare time on the site. Even to this day, I mainly enjoy dumb prank videos, and rarely venture into the fabled "Weird Side of YouTube." It was because of this that I was surprised at what I experienced- or rather thought I had experienced.

I'm surprised that my friends don't do this as well, but I often fall asleep while watching youtube. I predict it's fairly common. Only, for me, something really strange happened. One night, I fell asleep with my computer open, and some reaction video playing onscreen. I slept soundly, until I saw a blurry image of a smiling man in my sleep. Strange dreams were not new to me, but the thing that stood out in this dream was the youtube format and logo around the image.

I got up, and since autoplay was enabled, I had gotten to some obscure music video. I was shaken from my dream, so I turned off my computer and went upstairs to bed. As I was going to bed, I felt uneasy. Did I become so addicted to youtube that I was now dreaming about it?

The next night, I once again fell asleep at my computer. Once again, autoplay was left running, and in another bizzare dream I saw the smiling face once again. Only this time, I saw that it was mouthing words, though I couldn't tell what, my volume was low in my dream world just as it was in the real word.

The third night I became suspicious. I was apprehensive about going to sleep in front of my computer, but laziness got the better of me. This night I had left the volume high because my sister was rehearsing for a talent show upstairs. Thus, in my youtube influenced dream, I heard very clearly, the smiling face say, "Wake up, Jason." I bolted upright hearing this. To my relief, youtube was playing some prank video. I wiped sweat from my brow. I went upstairs and tried to get some sleep, but failed being as disturbed as I was by the dream.

For a few nights I didn't risk falling asleep at the computer. I reasoned that this was the cause of my dreams. Then one night I did it again, and once again I saw the face, only this time it was laughing and spouting random nonsense. It just didn't make sense, I had to know what was going on.

By now I was feeling that maybe my dreams wern't dreams at all. Maybe there was just something wrong with youtube. That's why that night I set up a camera to record myself sleeping with youtube open. If my hopes were correct it would turn out that nothing happened to youtube, or that it was just some glitch. But that's not what happened.

Nothing could prepare me for what happened next. As I was sleeping, I didn't see anything, but I heard psychotic laughs eminating from my speakers. The next day I woke up to a blank computer screen. I plugged the charger in and turned it back on. The computer took a while to turn on, but when it did, it displayed a youtube gaming video. I smiled and paused the video so I could watch it later. I was confident there was nothing weird on the recording.

I got the video onto my computer and watched it. For about fifty minutes it showed nothing but me sleeping while gaming and prank videos played in the background. Then, at exactly 52:37, my screen glitched. It almost looked like static from an old television. I jumped. There before me was the face from my dreams.

The face was of a human male. It looked either Asian or Eastern European. The man had sharp teeth, beady black eyes, and long jet black hair. His face was unshaven, and his crusty lips and yellow, narrow teeth were twisted into a crooked smile.

His dark eyes stared like birds of prey into mine. "Hello, Jason" he said in a heavily accented voice. "I have enjoyed watching you sleep, it has given me much joy." I was mortified. "Now sadly, I must go, sweet dreams!" He laughed hysterically. I quickly exited the program.

I eventually mustered the courage to watch the rest. After the man laughed, youtube went back to normal. I never watch youtube at night nowadays, and I always finish my videos before going to bed.