Thank you for inspiring me. This is slightly disturbing to me because it looks quite a bit like a demon I encountered in the dream world in late August 2008. I had a series of dreams where a demon tried to possess me, starting with it imitating my childhood dog, Pepper. These dreams took place over the course of three nights, one dream each night. You’ve inspired me to finally write this dream down; something I’ve intended on doing for years but never have until now.
Act 1 started with me in my parent’s house. Pepper was lying on the ground on his back like he was asking for belly rubs. He was a small, loving terrier who craved attention, so I obliged. He then stuck his paws out like he wanted a hug. Something felt weird, but I loved him and gave him a big huge. He hugged me too by placing his legs around my neck. Then he started hugging tighter…and tighter…and tighter…until I began to choke.
Enter act 2. Suddenly the dream shifted from my parent’s house to me back in my apartment bedroom. I was standing in my bed face to face with a demon that was pulling itself into me. This felt incredibly real. I remember seeing all the details of my bedroom and actually feeling my feet sinking into the mattress. I instantly understood I was being possessed. I was absolutely dumbstruck and scared with no idea what to do. I remember not asking for help but basically accepting the fact that I couldn’t fight it myself and needed help. At that moment, a small white light entered the room, swirled around me and vanquished the demon.
Act 3. The dream then immediately shifted again, this time to me lying in bed on my back. Both acts 2 and 3 felt real and were incredibly vivid, but this one felt even more real because I stilled remembered acts 1 and 2 and believed I was actually awake in bed remembering two separate dreams. I looked to the left, saw a white figure that looked strangely like a little terrier head that drifted away after we made what seemed like eye-contact, felt an overwhelming sense of happiness and love, laid there awake feeling freaked out but safe, then eventually fell back asleep. I think this was more of a waking dream where I imagined the white head, then fully woke for a bit before fa1ling back asleep.
That was nearly 8 years ago and I have never had another dream remotely like those since. It took me a few months before I told anyone (all my immediate family). They all thought it was creepy as hell but interesting. I theorize (and they agree) that what most likely happened was I had a random dream like we all do on that first not that stuck with me so strongly, that memory planted itself in my mind and spawned the dream from night 2 which in turn generated the dream from night 3. It’s like there was a thread left untied that my unconscious mind felt the need to tie into a knot. Once the metaphorical knot was tied in the form of me destroying the demon, my mind was at ease and let me move on. One interesting tidbit is that about a month before the dream, a friend who claims to be psychic told me out of the blue that I am a very good and pure soul, and there are a lot of bad things out there that hate me for it. She followed that up by saying it’s ok because I also have quite a bit of power (more than enough to defend myself), it just hadn’t wakened yet. I forgot all about this conversation until months later, but I think this thought could have also shaped the dreams.
These dreams are the closest to a paranormal encounter I’ve ever had. My family believes in the paranormal and each member has their own set of creepy stories (most involve their time working in hospitals). Here I am talking about dreams with demons imitating dogs and getting their ass whooped by my mental powers. I really think the dreams mean nothing, but it’s fun to think that my little buddy Pepper came back to save me one final time:)
Addendum: this whole wall of text was inspired by how much the figure in your picture (the one over the plate of food) looks like the demon from my dream. My dream demon looks like a cross between that drawing and Bing Bong from the movie Inside Out. The snout is what does it. Imagine your demon, but with a longer snout ending flat with two nostrils like an elephant’s and eyes like Bing Bong but smaller. Next, cover it in skin that looks sickening. I remember the skin being green like rotting avocados with red and yellow flecks mixed in. It actually looked a lot like sick green vomit. This brief image of the demon from night 1 is what stays with me the most and still creeps me out.
