

Welcome to a haunting tale that takes you deep into the unsettling world of visions and lucid dreams. Set in the quiet town of Edcouch, Texas, this story is about a student whose late-night study session turns into a surreal nightmare.
The Story
It was a late night after a long night of studying. I was very exhausted and due to sleep deprivation, I could start to see things that were not there. I just decided to go to sleep but for some reason I had an eerie feeling that something was right in front of me. I couldn’t understand what was happening, but I just assumed that it was just my tiredness, so I get in to bed and that feeling is still there. I stay up on till like 2am, I guess, and I wake up in this very lucid dream.
Just like that, the first thing I saw was this old-style TV from the 1980s. I wasn’t even born in that time, Then, I hear my sister knocking on my door, which is weird, she doesn’t really knock. All of a sudden, I felt this spine-chilling feeling coming from the TV and my sister’s knocking getting louder and louder, until everything goes silent.
The TV turns on and its black then, suddenly, I was in the TV! I felt tall, dead grass rubbing across my legs. I saw tall bare rock mountains that flew over the sky. Then I see this weird looking girl. She looked like a kids drawing or a creature. One of her hands was deformed and in the other hand dripping with blood. She started running at me and speaking in reverse. I couldn’t understand, all I could do was run. I looked back and she was gone. As I walked through the dead grass, I remember her face, pure black eyes with a creepy, but yet calming smile. Her body was hollow, with little spider-like arms reaching out. I black out from even thinking about it.
The next second, I experienced something that I will never forget, ever. The girl morphed into a cockroach and began crawling on the floor, then it transformed into a cocoon with dead leaves all over. The cocoon started to move and hatched her as the cockroach.
Finally, everything went gray in the background, as she crawled back in the cocoon, it closed, and I came out the TV. I woke up in a very cold sweat I open my eyes, and I see the girl from the nightmare across my bed and behind her a very tall and skinny person. I was not able to move so I just blinked my eyes as quick as possible and passed out in the prosses from breathing too fast. After I wake up, I’m too scared to even open my eyes, until I’m not. Sometimes late at night I still see the spiders in the corner of my eye waiting for me to fall asleep again. – Caleb