This is a nightmare I had recurring for a few days when I was a child. We had moved into our new home and had been living in it for some time. In this dream, a man I had seen twice in passing through our neighborhood had broken into my room through the window. Since I was six I have had a habit of sleeping with a knife beneath my pillow, naturally in my dream I reached for the knife.
I stabbed and slashed at him, but he just kept coming to attack me. I slammed him into hooks on the wall, smashed his head against the ground—things that should be fatal or near there—but he kept getting up and chased after me. In my folly thinking his skull cracked against the floor I stopped running away. His hand grabbed my ankle and he threw my to the ground. I thought he would kill me then, but just as he made a bite for my neck I swung my fists at him. His teeth grazed my arm leaving me with a sharp throbbing pain.
I don't remember how I got away, but I did and he continued to give chase. I ran to the high balcony and waited for him to charge me again then threw him over the edge unto the landscape rocks below. Still that was not enough to kill him, when he got up deformed and continued to chase me, I realised it was a dream and woke up. I awoke covered in sweat and my arm was swollen where his teeth had grazed me.
It's been years, I think the guy died just before covid, but that dream still bothers me, it fuels my fear of zombies. I sleep with two knives and a bat now and I sleep really light, the slightest sound in my room will wake me. I also get up middle of the night just to check my weapons, the doors and windows.
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