Before I start, I should say, I don't believe in pentagrams, the supernatural, spirits or anything like that. But I've always used the term demon to describe entities I meet fairly regularly in dreams and I have trained myself to use pentagrams, mantras and spells to ward them off. This works, once you drill the beliefs into your subconscious.

Last night I had this weird dream. I woke at five AM and made myself go back to sleep because I had to go to work in the morning at the Alistair Hardy Society Research Library.

I fell asleep and felt something at the end of my bed. I was in sleep paralysis. It claimed to be the ghost of Alistair Hardy. We chatted for a while but I found being watched by a spirit that can read my mind disturbing when I want to sleep. So I tried to get rd of him. Politely, then with a pentagram.

Next dream, the same entity claimed to be me. I believed him for a while, I was in a very groggy dream state. We lay down together and I realised I had been lied to. So I imagined a pentagram. He morphed into a demon creature briefly, teeth everywhere. I think he wanted to scare me. But I kept attacking as it wouldn't go away. After a while, it was weakened and battered and retreated to the end of my room. Using the usual set of spells I managed to get some normal sleep and normal (though vivid) dreams.

The last part of the dream was a person wanting to be let in to see me who I had instinctively, though playfully... ahem... kicked in the face. He was somewhat annoyed. By which I mean he was furious.

I don't know. I don't officially believe in spirits. But I feel a wee bit guilty for my excessively violent self defense mechanism. My feeling is that inasmuch as the thing represented a part of me its the part thats lonely at the moment and wants company at any cost.

Poor, dear fictional creature. Lonely, scared and lost. Kicking it in the face probably make me the monster in this little nightmare.