Something is lurking and a eerie feeling  crawls up my spine, I try to ignore it looking for excuses to not close my eyes to not succumb to that darkness to not know what’s staring me through it yet my eyelids are heavy, and my lack of sleep is evident I faze in and out of sleep like I exist in the middle , where I don’t know how much time has passed or how much information I have missed. I cannot really call it sleep but but it isn’t consciousness either it’s more like… limbo the ability to just exist  not awake, but not asleep, conscious but not alert. Now I slowly realize that I’m not awake anymore that that darkness has overcome me. Sleep has won the battle between awareness. It’s scary My body feels cold. It feels like I’m falling, drowning even like I’m weak and unable to use my limbs or save myself, my limbs feel like they’re burning and a tingling sensation in each and every one of them I hear, distant voices, seemingly calling out to my name am I going insane, or am I already insane? My ears start to work, and I can finally hear who was calling out to me and what they were saying I can tell that they were trying to wake me up. I can feel the ability of my limbs turning on and light streaming in as I open my eyes, and I finally say “what’s wrong”  and they reply “you’re late for school.”