Unknown Nightmare
Want to get this dream down, may incorporate it into a fanfic later with the horrible (as in terrifying) idea I had.
I was descending an apartment staircase, the kind that spirals within 4 walls and you can see down the middle for stories. As I went down, I looked over the railing, and it struck me that I didn't recognize this place, and that I might be dreaming. I called out "hello?", which echoes down the space, and doubted myself, as everything seemed pretty clear. I began noticing the segments of the wall seemed to get larger as it went on, going from 4 to 5 walls, and the style of everything started to get more and more simplistic, low poly. Upon the full spiral stair, everything was made of plain grey cubes at near straight angles (but everything off center), no round surfaces, as if I were in a geologic cavern. The stairs then ended, but down below I could see the bottom. Again, the thought that this could be a dream, and with that hope, I jumped, floating down, but doubt speeding my decent, causing me to land on my ass, past the glimpse of a basketball net and backboard embedded in the cubby wall. The space screamed gymnasium, but only with vague impressions, like the shiny wood court in the large space. On the other side of the court, the other net set rightly positioned in the grey uneven blocks, some of which formed an arch like the mockery of a prom balloon fixture, behind the left of which stepped the Unknown under it. It stood framed under the arch for a moment, looking at me, until it suddenly crawled at me, crossing the space in a mere second, the speed revealing the ground wasn't shiny hardwood, but a thin layer of water, kicked up by the sudden approach. To say it startled me was an understatement, I exclaimed something like "woah!" and fell on my ass again with a splash. Crouching before me, I recalled that before I fell asleep I had been watching the 13 hour DBD stream, and was just really tired. I told the creature as much, blearily, "I just want to sleep." At this it reached out with what looked like hands from around it's neck, though it was probably the UVX mixed with the memory of a horror short I'd seen from Netflix (the Xmas on from LD&R). The "fingers" touched my face, softly, and made me close my eyes. I then could feel, or perhaps I was peeking, it sat and coiled itself around me, cradling me, it's head peering at me upside down on a twisted neck. It felt nervously comforting at first, but then it dredged up a similar memory of me being small being held by my mom, as if it were mimicking it, or pretending to be her, humming and everything. This freaked me out, like it was tainting that memory, or stealing it, and struggled to get away. I woke up disturbed.
(BTW, as I was typing this I can hear something crawling around in either the closet or the walls behind me, which is probably the nesting birds or a mouse or something, but just in case it's the Unknown, it's been a pleasure everyone, wish me luck in the fog!)