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Night Terrors (Free verse) by princesszoe

Depths of persuasion Unfathomed cruelty Spiralling Out of control The first cut Not the deepest Each slice Another layer Of humanity Stripped to the stench of raw bone

http://mulberryfairy 4-Aug-03/8:14 PM
What is the sleep paralysis like? My sleeping/sleepwalking dreams are more terrifying than any awake experience, I can't read scary books or watch scary movies at all anymore. The last scary thing I read was Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright and every night I dreamed I was being lynched in the Jim Crow South, that was about 5 years ago when I put that book down and never picked it back up. I also have these sort of half asleep hallucinations that there are bugs or snakes all over my bed at night, and I have to turn on the light and wake myself (and my partner) all the way up before I can be sure there aren't bugs in the bed. I am sure this stuff is all related somehow, but I have never done any real research about it, except to ask around when my daughter started having night terrors, too.




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