I had a dream!
Note:- A dream, not a nightmare, well I'm not sure, let Me Explain.
I don't remember the before, the after was, I woke up and that was the bit that is the nearest to a nightmare, but I'll get to that later.
There was a door but not a door, a curtain but not a curtain, a sheet of light but not so. But this is weird, I want to say “an envelope” you know an old-fashioned brown envelope like a bill comes in.
There was a strong light on the other side. It was as if I were holding an envelope up to the light to see what's inside. The structure of the paper, it's fibrous construction broke up the plain colour. It was just like looking through an envelope.
I knew where I was, I was dying and this was the portal of death. I was thinking “This Is It”. I wasn't frightened, no fear, at the most of vague uncertainty. Without thinking about it, I knew what to do. I reached out to tear through the veil and then I woke up.
Now the nightmarish part!
I lay still in bed with my eyes closed. At first I thought I had just had a dream, but then I thought what if it wasn't a dream? What if I had gone through the portal? What if the portal was hell, and now I was in hell, and the devil was playing a trick on me, letting me think I was safe in my bed.
I could sense a presence there in the room with me, I imagined a devilish, dinosaurish looking creature with green scales, the Devil stood by my bed. I reasoned, what better Hell than to awake thinking you are in your own bed but to discover you were actually in Hell, a hell designed to look like, to seem like your own world, then to discover the devil standing there the devil reaching out to draw the duvet back, to let you see, let you experience the horror of discovering you are in hell!
I lay there my initial fear subsided. I thought don't be silly and threw the duvet aside and…………….