ManEatinCatfish

So I was laying in bed, and had a candle lit and was reading a book waiting for my laundry to finish. I can hear the dryer and washer from my bed. After I finished reading the book (The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, and I literally had just finished the last page), I blew out the candle (lavender and vanilla scented) and put on some relaxing rain-sound app I just decided to download on my phone. I normally find it very difficult to sleep without any noise, and I'm trying to break away from having music constantly playing via headphones when I'm sleeping. Sooner than I expected, I feel asleep.

I thought I woke up, and sat up to go change my laundry because I didn't hear the dryer anymore. The room looked exactly as it did before. Same amount of lighting from the window, everything was in the place just as it was. When I sat up, I saw myself still laying down in my bed. As I turned my legs over the side of the bed, my hips would have still be aligned with my body, in a way that I suppose would suggest that I was still attached, but not in the exact same position. The direction I faced was towards my closet, which I never really close the door to. As I looked up and tried to stand, I wasn't able to stand. I could move my arms and legs, but could not actually get up. When I looked up, I saw a skeleton, more specifically a skull wrapped in a black shroud (sort of what the typical grim-reaper looks like) come out of the closet and stare at me. After we made eye contact, as soon as I tried to stand up, the skull began to scream mercilessly at me, as if to scare me. Well it did. I was unable to scream or talk. And it continued to scream at me until I laid back down. Once I laid down, and looked over at the closet, I could still see the skull, but it had retreated into the closet, but never stopped looking at me. I looked at my ceiling, closed my eyes, and shortly there after, woke back up. At least I think so. I didn't get out of bed. I didn't sit up. I rolled over to look at my phone, noticed some time had passed since I stopped reading the book, and decided to go to sleep, despite what just happened. I turned off the sounds it was making, and placed it on the opposite side of my bed on the night stand.

Some time later, I woke up again. The same exact thing happened. Room looked exactly the same. Sat up, saw myself, went to stand, and immediately the skull came flying out of the closet, screaming immediately this time though, not waiting for me to try and get up. It almost looked more angry than the first time. Still unable to stand or scream, I laid back down and stared at the ceiling until I feel asleep. This time though, the skull did not retreat into the closet, but stayed next to the bed, looking angry at me the whole time. I woke up again. Sat up, saw nothing. Everything was the way it should be. I didn't see myself anymore, nothing was screaming.. It was actually too quiet for my liking.. So I laid back down and passed out almost immediately after I hit the pillow.