I don't know how long I lay there before I woke up. At least I thought I woke up. The room was bright. The light hurt my eyes. Great I thought I left the lights on when I went to bed. I struggled to get up and turn off the lights and discovered I couldn't move. I seemed to be paralyzed. I struggled. At least I thought I struggled. My mind told me I was struggling anyway. A shadow passed over me. I couldn't see clearly. It was just a dark blurry shadow. I felt the bed move. Funny I thought I can feel the bed I was laying on, the pillow under my head, the wrinkles in the sheet on the mattress under me. I could feel the coolness of the air around me, there were no blankets covering me. I knew I was in my own room, I could hear the familiar sounds of the clock in the living room ticking, the water gurgling in the fish tank in the dining room, the neighbor's dog barking next door. Then there were the familiar smells of my room and house. I lay there not understanding the signals my mind was giving me. Am I having a dream? Yes, it is a dream I thought as my mind wandered.
I felt the bed move again as something crawled onto the foot of the bed. I tried to look and spoke up as I felt something warm and rough being placed on my ankles and my legs were drawn apart. I didn't understand at all what was taking place in this dream.
The bed shifted again, and something or someone crawled up between my legs and leaned down over me. It was large blurry dark shadow. The bed shifted again as something was placed on either side of me. The shadow left me momentarily as it leaned back and the light hit my eyes again. Whatever was placed beside me was removed to. Funny I thought, it felt like something was over my eyes keeping me from seeing, making everything blurry. There were no other sounds other than the creaking of the bed as the dark object moved.