Have you ever jolted awake with that sense of falling with the feeling of impending doom and helplessness? Notice you always wake up before you make impact? Notice how you never really die? It’s your minds last defense against the darkness. Dreams have more power than you have been made to believe because if you die in your dreams, you never wake up.

Dreams are as deadly as any weapon. Each time you fall, you get closer to the ground, closer to death, closer the darkness pulling you under. Don’t let it take you. Fight to wake up.

That pull of darkness will only get stronger and stronger. Don’t succumb to it.  If you do,  you will end up like me, lost in eternal darkness with no knowledge of whether you’re dead or alive, here or there.

You will simply wander about in the dark endlessness of limbo. If you hear something behind you,the smallest scrabble of claws, the lowest hiss of breath, don’t look, don’t run, just keep walking. Ignore the breath that prickles the back of your neck, the small bump against your back, the screech that sends shivers down your spine.
The dark can make you feel alone even though you can tell there is something, somewhere. A crowd of scuffling, hissing, clicking, and growling. The darkness may seem empty but is inhabited by those who have succumbed to its blackness.