dream scream

This morning around 3am I woke up screaming. Okay, with a scream. Or maybe it was more like “Uhnn.” I don’t know if there was an actual vocalization, but it seemed like there was. There was definitely a scream in the dream I was having, and I woke up suddenly at that point feeling like I had just screamed.

There’s very little detail in the dream that I can remember.

The mood of the dream was like a haunted house or a suspense/thriller sort of thing. Some other person—I think it was a man—and I were looking for someone or something, or maybe we were trying to not be found by this someone or something.

So either we didn’t find it or it didn’t find us, and then we were in some other place, like a house where we were supposed to be safe. And we were going to bed. (Not together—it wasn’t a sex dream.)

I thought I heard something, or maybe I just got up for some other reason, turned on a light and looked into the hallway. There was a man there in the hall. He was clearly a bad guy. I think he had a knife or something, maybe claws. And he was there to get us. I’m not sure if he was the thing we had earlier been seeking or avoiding, but he was somehow connected with it.

Well, as soon as I saw him, I screamed and woke up. When I woke up, I knew that I was awake. There wasn’t that feeling of maybe it was sort of real, that maybe there was someone in the room with me, trying to get me. I knew it had been a dream. But I didn’t know if I had actually screamed or not, and if so, how loud was it?


After that, I was awake for some time. I don’t know how long exactly. But I did not sleep peacefully for the rest of the morning. I feel quite tired now. And I just want to say “Uhnn,”  because I haven’t the energy to actually scream.