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#1 highpriestmikhal Mar 29, 2008 14:52:57

We all have bad dreams from time to time. For most of us these are merely nightmares that are utterly harmless. A cathartic release for whatever stress is lingering inside our subconscious minds while we sleep. Sometimes they even act as muses for artists and writers. But why they take the form they do is something I just can't figure out. I seem to have nightmares every time I close my eyes. The only times I really wake up with a fright is when a dream involves someone from my past I had a problem with (people scare me more than monsters, but I'm misanthrope so of course that'd trigger stronger responses). Most fade from memory, others linger in fragmented form, and others stick with me like a bad itch. One constant among a lot of them is a room, done in the old Victorian style, set underground and connected to a newer home. Behind a small portrait is a wooden handle you can move side to side. But moving it releases a malevolent spirit that immediately leaves to take up residence in a nearby Victorian estate kept behind heavy iron bars. Despite being over a hundred or so years old the place hasn't aged a day and, save for the strange stasis it's in, there's nothing terribly remarkable. Until said spirit arrives and reawakens a menagerie of horrors I can't quite remember. And only those who released the spirit (this spirit is always a cruel, vile matriarch) can possibly defeat her and put her back into the spirit prison she was kept in for a century. Thus ending an as-yet-unnamed threat beyond a mass haunting. Sounds like a bad video game plot, no? But that's the feeling I get whenever I have a dream about the room with the switch. Now I'm more interested in any ideas the sick, twisted minds of others have come up with based on bad dreams. Come on, hit me with your worst!