I don’t know when I first became aware of it but I’m starting to think it’s been lurking around in the background for months. It was just there hidden in plain sight trying not to be noticed as it took root.
The more I think about it the more I’m certain it turned up just after my sleep patterns altered. I’ve always been someone who could sleep, a deep sleep from which no dreams were remembered. To my wife’s annoyance within minutes of getting into bed I would drift into sleep while she struggled for hours. Then about four months ago, everything flipped and I couldn’t sleep anymore. I’d spend the night drifting in and out of sleep and dreams that I started to remember. A broken and fractured nights’ rest that always left me tired.
The dreams were nothing special, just your normal run of the mill dreams to start with and it was a while before I noticed it hiding there. Yet it was in all my dreams, just lurking in the background, a small cardboard box with the number 10 printed on it.
It didn’t do anything, never got used or picked up, it just sat in the background and the more I noticed it the more it lurked, trying to hide itself.
Then last week things changed, it started to grow, in each dream it was a little bigger, a little less in the background. It was still lurking but now it was developing menace. My dreams took on a new edge as the box came forward from the background of my dreams. I don’t know how to explain it as the box never did anything, never moved yet it was a sinister presence in every night’s dreams.
I woke up early again this morning and I’m really scared. The thought of going to go to sleep tonight is more than I can bear as the box has stopped lurking. Last night it was right in the fore-ground of my dream, front and centre. It radiated malice and that feeling won’t leave me even after being awake for three hours. I can’t talk to my wife about this, she would just dismiss it and anyway she’s had to go look after her mother who is recovering from a fall. At least she is safe and out of the way.
I know with my next dream the box will open and all that malice will spill out. I don’t know what to do but feel the need to explain what has been happening, maybe by posting this someone else will know of the box and what to do.
I can only hope.