Close your eyes and listen to the gentle patter of rain, letting it carry you into a deep, dream-filled sleep. But sometimes, the dream becomes a trap. In one story, a teenage boy wakes to find a child-like creature with piercing white eyes and impossibly long nails hissing as it crawls across his bed, inches from his paralyzed face [citation:1]. Another woman describes a presence that communicates through a terrifying telepathy, mocking her vulnerability as she lies frozen, unable to fight back against the thing she feels in the room with her [citation:2]. And in a final tale, a man experiences a hallucination of being strangled by an ominous monster, so convinced he was going to die that he could only pray for it to end [citation:6][citation:12]. Let these chilling accounts serve as a reminder that the mind is the most frightening place of all, even on the safest, rainiest of nights.