Toronto, Ontario M 26

I rarely wake-up in the middle of the night anymore, but when I do it's always under the influence of some dark and malicious threat. I don't seem to remember what that threat is, though, when I have awaken - for whatever reason it was the scariest thing at the time, and then it's stolen my memory of it, and any power that I might have had in releasing the dark hold it has over my unprotected subconscious. Could it be some succubus feeding off me? Some dark part of myself I can't even begin to face, a demon birthed in the mire of my subconscious coming up to feed on the remnants of my day? Just when it has me, just when I begin to shiver, I am startled awake, and left with this thing's faint shadow imprinted on the back of my mind. It lingers for a while as I get used to reality again, left simply to wonder at it as I stare around my twilight-lit room before rolling over and trying that otherness again.