Dream-dragon

And this time the invader hallucination is my mom.

Interestingly, as often as I’ve had sleep paralysis, I’ve never had ones that are scary like those in the folklore.  That’s good I guess.

So it happened like this. I have this day off so I decided to let myself have some rest. I turned on the a/c and tucked myself into bed. at noon.

Things that might have been the cause : I didn’t close the curtains and the lights are shining into my room, I also had a cup of light coffee that I brewed on my own. It’s super light and I didn’t expect it to have any effect on me. I’m only drinking it to prevent coffee withdrawal headache.

I slept okay at first, but then I heard mom making noises downstairs and I thought : I must get up and help mom do whatever she’s doing.

Then it hits me. I can’t get up. I can’t wake up properly. I can’t speak. I can’t move.

oh fudgenuggets. not again.

Well at least this time it happened when I was completely comfortable so … yay? Unlike the last few times that was pure torture because of my awkward position or scalding hot weather. So, it’s not gonna be bad.

Then “mom” came into the room and do mom things. I was hoping with all my heart that “mom” would touch me and that might wake me up completely. but nope, didn’t happen.

I didn’t even had the slightest thought that “mom” wasn’t real. I completely forgot that “invader hallucination” is thing.

Soon after I gave up. I was waiting for myself to wake up on its own. “Mom” even got so close as to sit on my bed. I began to wonder, what if I don’t wake up? what if I get stuck like this forever? How soon will my family know? What will happen?

As dark thoughts began to grow, I fell back to complete sleep and started dreaming.

I saw black

I saw stars

and then there’s a low-poly dragon who shines into the starry background. He flew in the middle of my vision field and rotated around, like I was checking out a character’s design. I remember him well. I remembered thinking that wow, that’s a small pair of wings. Almost like he’s missing some part of them. How can he fly with those? hm? I should give him new wings to make him look better.

There was a voice narrating. “From the Continent Sun, he wanders and visits many World Islands….“ I don’t remember the rest. He went into a planet and went all the way into a night part of it. And landed on an old-timey building. And perched there.

I woke up completely, feeling like sh*t.

I then thought, I should write it down and draw the dream dragon. I also found out that mom wasn’t home yet. And realized for the first time that “mom” was an invader hallucination.

so weird. I appreciate that I never get scary invaders. but come on, brain, you can be more creative than that? Not that I want scary things. but a unicorn or a fairy would be nice?


I can’t art. I can’t do my dream dragon justice. but he looked something like this. Grey-brown coloration with short stumpy face and light yellow short wings. And bright blue streaks on places. weird skirt-like tail.