#afterwards i did see a creepy face/shadow for a split second but those felt distinctly like dreams

[shiftperception]

this morning I got a very short episode of sleep paralysis. I was laying in bed and heard/felt something (small-medium sized animal type beat) repetitively pawing/digging at the blankets. I didn’t want to look at what it was and tried to scream but nothing came out. snapped out of it a second later and rolled over to see nothing there. I’m not a supernatural or literal ghost believer, but for some reason my creepypasta pilled sleep deprived brain (after thinking ‘i hope it’s not a person’?) remembered that in the house my mom recently moved to we found a dog grave in the yard from a previous owner. and thought: ‘at least if it’s a ghost it’s probably just a dog ghost’

every time I have a “nightmare” it ends up being hilarious to me later. this made it near impossible for me to get back to sleep but now all I can think of is this third person pov scene of a dog furiously digging on the bed next to a person curled up in fetal position trying to shriek in terror.