Last night I had a lot of anxiety for some reason. There is a muscle that contracts in the ear — I’m doing it right now — that makes a sound of blood rushing. For whatever reason you have to have your eyes closed to flex it. That blood rushing sound was keeping me awake last night. Whenever it happened, it was just so loud. And it seemed to happen right as I was losing consciousness.
As is typical for those kinds of dreams, I’m lying in bed with the covers over my head and I can’t move. And I’m hearing something I don’t want to, or I’m aware of a unwanted presence or compulsion. At first it was a buzzing, then there was something in the room — I was close enough to being awake that what I was seeing was taken directly from the last thing I saw before closing my eyes. So it seemed very real.
