Nightmare

Nightmare by Son Nguyen

Nightmare, a wicked entity, envelops you at night when you fall deeper into an exhausted sleep. It gradually envelops you until your body is immobilized. It teleports your mind into a place where darkness and malevolent entities prowl in the dark, ready to strike you with fear and force. Nightmare loves to play tricks with your fragile mentality. It provokes your darkest secrets, sins, and fears, to diminish your courage and pride. It creeps into your past and memories and spoil their purity and innocence. The surreal elements that Nightmare utilizes to formulate a scene are so vivid and factual. The screams, the pain, the physical movements, and what you witness within Nightmare are nothing but fictitious beings and feelings.

When you are being chased by an unknown entity, your fear increasingly dictates over your strength. You feel scared, and you try to move your leg muscles but you cannot. It seems like you are immobilized and chained. You turn around and attempt to swing your arm with the hope of defeating that unknown entity. However, Nightmare knows and plays you like a puppet. It lets you slip and fall deep into the oblivion. The darkness instantly consumes you, and you only see nothing but darkness. Nightmare's amusement concludes, and you wake up, drench in your own sweat. Your body feels heavy, your heart beats faster, and your muscles ache. Nightmare withdraws its cloak of fear from you and disappear. You, again, fall into an exhausted sleep. Do not forget that Nightmare will come back whenever it pleases.