In darkness deep,

Where moonlight's most scarce

And shadows dance in eerie parades,

I roam at night,

My soul devoid of any light.

My hunger grows, a gnawing ache,

My anger rages, fierce and tight,

My craving for sleep is something I can never shake,

My crankiness a relentless quake,

So beware of my cranky plight,

As Sleep eludes me, like a thief in the night....

I was only nine when it started. It was when I stopped sleeping. Mom was deeply concerned about it. The terrors that came with sleeping were too much for me. So I stopped.

The feeling of not being able to move and the figures surrounding me. I couldn’t handle it.

I was a stupid kid. Staying up late every night. Why do kids do such things, I could not tell you. But I can tell you that the...

*bzzzz* the fan is buzzing in the background. The t.v is on lighting up the room, the sound barely audible. Eyes dart around the room and in an instant her stomach is in knots and a wave of terror and anxiety creeps up her back and into her arms. Goosebumps form on the girls skin. Her breathing is picking up pace. She tries to move her arms but nothing. Next, she tries to move her head. Again, not...

I know what’s about to happen before if occurs. I had been having an uneasy sleep all night, but now, after the 3rd time waking up in the middle of the night, it happened.

A warm feeling washes over my body, slowly spreading up my legs and through my torso. My arms, which had been laying at my sides as I tried to fall back asleep, grow heavy. I try to move my hands, to reach out for the lamp on ...

Breathe. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. My eyes slowly begin to twitch awake. I’ve been here before. You see, Sleep paralysis is an Old friend to me. We are well acquainted, and where many find fear in her presence, I contrarily feel at rest. You see, I ask myself, what is there to fear really? See where many fear a lack of control, I see opportunity to lose control. Even if jus...

I am in a store spinning on a gigantic Spinney chair. I’m just flying. I never want this to end. Suddenly, I can’t move. I realize it was a dream and I’m in my bed. But I can’t move. Not this again. This needs to stop....

Once upon a time, a young girl was on her family farm playing with some chickens and her pet dog. Then, coming from a nuclear weapons testing plant, is a glow in the dark chicken.

“Hello there! What’s your name!” Calls out the girl.

The chicken just stares at her, emotionless. The young girl then bends over to pick up the chicken until all of the sudden, the chicken jumps up and pecks her on the ...

I feel aimless at night. Better things to do than sleep. Well I don’t sleep so well. Why, do you ask? It’s because I have… night terrors! Egads! What a terrible fate which awaits me each morning as I wake. Surely quite a terrible thing....

A cool breeze rushed through the cracked window adjacent my bed, softly kissing my rosy cheeks. I quickly awoke. My eyelids darted open, revealing the blank darkness of the ceiling in the nighttime. I felt the coolness of the air travel straight through my body into the bones at the core of my limp body. My blanket had fallen to the floor, prompting the strong urge to reach for it. Yet when my arm...

I wake up, tensed, heavy. I try to move but realize I can’t and an intense anxiety begins to flood in. “What do I do? do I try to call for help? why is this happening?” All these thoughts are racing through my brain. My eyes start to search the room as they are the only things that can move. They wander throughout my dark room, I have a feeling someone is watching me in this incapacitated state. M...