Question

Describe a nightmare you once had

Answer 1

Answer:

“I keep thinking back to a nightmare I had when I was about five years old. It’s the most vivid dream of my life.It came in two quick segments, each lasting about fifteen seconds. In the first, my sister and I were crossing a Vermont wheat field on our way to a little red schoolhouse when we were stopped by a life-sized cartoon-character wolf. Grinning, the wolf applied a sheet of sticky flypaper to my face and peeled it away. My face was now smooth and featureless, like a fencer’s mask. When I looked down at the flypaper in the wolf’s hand, it contained my face’s image. The wolf had stolen my face.

Fade-out.

As the dream resumed, I saw myself sleep- ing in the living room of my grandmother’s Pappy Yokum-style Vermont shack. It was very dark. The sparse moonlight which filtered in through the unlocked screen door cast some milky rays on other relatives in the room, all of them wearing earplugs and snoring loudly. Suddenly, the cartoon wolf, his eyes big and white, appeared at the door. I screamed at the top of my kindergartener’s lungs. But since all my relatives had chosen to wear earplugs, they couldn’t hear me.”