Halloween is the time for ghosts and ghoulies and things that go bump in the night. For many people, however, almost any night can be a time for ghostly creatures, scary monsters and frightening demons that haunt their sleep.
DREAMS
What are these mysterious spooks? The bogeymen that haunt our dreams. Dreams come in all shapes and sizes. Some are but fleeting images that drift through the sleeping mind, others are visits to fairyland places, magical lands and long-lost friends. But dreams can also take us to strange corners where we feel a twinge of fear, a certainty that at any moment the Creature will appear.
NIGHTMARES
Then the Creature does appear, and we're in the midst of a nightmare. The beast or ghost or something unknown chases through dark and dangerous dungeon or the twisting hallways of a haunted house as we run screaming through the darkness.
Any moment we'll be caught, devoured, torn to shreds. Fortunately, as is the way with dreams and nightmares, just before the ghostly figure pounces, we awaken, and lie there shivering and trembling, wondering where on earth (or elsewhere) the night mare came from.
NIGHT TERRORS
Night terrors are even worse. We are shoved so deep into the blackness of our subconscious that, although a horrifying something makes us quake in terror. Night terrors cause us to mumble and scream, to toss and turn, and struggle as though fighting off an attacker.
Then we sit up, eyes wide open but unseeing, pale and trembling. Night terrors leave us shaking and terrified - and completely in the dark as to what the dream was about. Most people cannot remember a thing from their night terror visions.
