It's Just Night Terrors, Right?

10:00 PM

I haven’t had good sleep in weeks - I wake up feeling exhausted no matter when I go to sleep. At a friend’s insistence I’m going to keep a journal by my bed. My friend said that if I wake up I may not even be remembering it, but if I have a journal I can write down what happens and figure out how to fix it. This all seems childish, but I’m so exhausted I’ll try anything at this point.

10:23 PM

I heard some weird noise under my bed. I’m guessing it’s the people in the apartment below me fighting. Normally I’d just have gone back to sleep, but having this here I guess did prompt me to write it down. I put a rug down over the floor and it seems to have muffled it.

10:56 PM

Ugh, more noises but this time from the apartment nextdoor, right as I was falling asleep. I almost just ignored it, but got up and plugged the little vent over my bed that I think is where noises were coming from with a towel, so they stopped. I’m also a little too warm, so I’m going to switch to using a sheet instead of a comforter.

12:03 AM

Well I got through at least an hour of sleep. I woke up this time due to some kind of weird drip from the faucet in the kitchen - I guess a hazard of living in a studio apartment. Oh well. It took me a few minutes, but I managed to put a stop to the dripping with a wrench.

2:17 AM

What the hell- this time the noise was coming from my front door, some kind of weird scratching. When I got up to check, there was nothing there. Maybe someone’s dog from down the hall? No wonder I’ve been having so many problems sleeping. I put some more towels around the edges of the door to try to drown out anything in the hallway. I feel like at this point I’m just plugging up every hole in my apartment.

5:53 AM

I don’t know how it got in, but it got in, please don’t let it get me, please don’t let it get me, please don’t let it get me again, please, please, please, please stop it from getting me. Oh no, it’s too late.

7:53 AM

Please help.

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I woke up exhausted again. It’s in my handwriting, but I don’t remember writing the last two entries. I’m hoping it’s just a night terror. It can’t be something else right? The thing that bothers me though is the last entry has a spot of what seems to be blood next to it.