They creep up on you, tap into your fears. Take away everything you love. Wake-up! Wake-up you scream, but you can’t. All you see is pain and darkness, darkness you didn’t know existed. You finally wake-up, only to find you are alone. Your heart yearns for some warmth, that abyss was so cold, you need something warm you say again. Who can you call? Years of perfection left out friends, you didn’t have time for such delicacies. Then you realize, you never woke up. You’re still drowning. You made yourself this thing, you were quiet, scared, perfect, feared, ridiculed, put up on a pedestal you never asked for. Maybe I’ll wake up you think, am I awake? Can I wake up? What is real? What is not? How long will this last? Your perfection must have broken because in reply you hear, “As long as you make it, as long as you want it.” Get out of my head you want to scream, but you don’t, there’s something eerily familiar from this voice that comes from inside of you. It can’t be yours you think, but then from where do I know you you ask it. This time it takes longer to reply. Then it says, “I am something in between, I am neither friend, nor enemy, I do not know where I come from, so I don’t know how I know who you are. I can only promise that I tell the truth.” You feel that you need to believe it, and you wonder, why was I so afraid? This nightmare can’t be real you think, because this is too good to be true, then you come to realize, you make the fear, so you can take it away now. Nightmares are just in our heads, we make what we need in that moment. So, nightmares, they aren’t real. Our 21st century minds make them, so maybe we control our minds, and you can finally see what you were too blind to see before. Nightmares are our friends, we need them. They helped you realize that you can’t just hide yourself, they helped shape you. This nightmare has become your friend. Maybe you don’t want to wake up, because for once you actually have someone. They may not be real and you may not be able to see them, but this friend of yours is like a star, you may not always see them, but they’re always there. Finally, you can sleep with the nightmares, because they don’t scare you anymore. Because you both saw that without the other neither of you would be able to exist. So, yeah, it’s hard to wake up from a nightmare if you aren’t asleep, so stop trying to wake up, and start living.